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sishamIAGD
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sishamIAGDCommunity Expert
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February 19, 2018
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Is it possible to do something in a pdf so it could ‘score’ itself and provide output text on the basis of the responses?

  • February 19, 2018
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I suppose almost like a survey kind of process..?

You have multiple options to select, say a score from 1-7 via a checkbox for about 15 questions (maybe over a couple of pages) and depending on what you select it displays an answer at the end once completed.

I hope this makes sense and any suggestions help would be great.

Thanks.

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Correct answer try67

OK, then you can use something like this as the custom calculation script of the field where you want to show the result.

Of course, you can adjust the field names, texts and scores to match your needs...

var score = 0;
for (var i=1; i<=15; i++) {
    var f = this.getField("Q"+i);
    if (f.valueAsString!="Off") score+=Number(f.valueAsString);
}
if (score==0) event.value = "";
else if (score<10) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's pretty bad.";
else if (score<20) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's bad.";
else if (score<40) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's OK.";
else if (score<60) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's good!";
else event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's great!";

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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March 6, 2018

So do you have 15 groups of check-box fields, with export values of 1-7, and you want to display some text based on the total score?

sishamIAGD
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sishamIAGDCommunity ExpertAuthor
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March 6, 2018

Yes that's the kind of thing I'm looking to do..?

try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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March 6, 2018

OK, then you can use something like this as the custom calculation script of the field where you want to show the result.

Of course, you can adjust the field names, texts and scores to match your needs...

var score = 0;
for (var i=1; i<=15; i++) {
    var f = this.getField("Q"+i);
    if (f.valueAsString!="Off") score+=Number(f.valueAsString);
}
if (score==0) event.value = "";
else if (score<10) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's pretty bad.";
else if (score<20) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's bad.";
else if (score<40) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's OK.";
else if (score<60) event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's good!";
else event.value = "Your score is: " + score + ". That's great!";
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George_Johnson
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February 19, 2018

Yes, that's certainly possible. You could use a custom JavaScript in the final score field that gets the value of each input field and calculates the result. If you just want a simple sum, you may be able to use the built-in Sum calculation.

sishamIAGD
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sishamIAGDCommunity ExpertAuthor
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February 20, 2018

Thanks for getting back to me.

Do you know where I could find the resources/tutorials to be able to do this? Or even a step by step guide?

Thanks

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
February 20, 2018

A retired Math professor D.P. Story has started a company AcroTeX that has a product that can create exams. He provides many examples for simple math to calculus.

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