Make radio buttons change other radio buttons

Question

Hello,

I've been trying to work this one out for a few days now, but I always find a problem with my solution.

I have a form with four questions, you can always anwser Yes/No to those questions. I have decided to do this with radio buttons, no problem there. However, I also need to set up this:

If I anwser Yes to the first question, you can freely choose Yes/No in other three questions.

If I anwser No to the first question, you can only choose No in the other three questions.

To make it even more complicated, I also need to set up this:

If I anwser Yes in the second question, you can only choose Yes in the third question (the fourth is not affected)

If I anwser No in the second question, you can freely choose Yes/No in the third question (the fourth is not affected)

I have found a solution, that works perfectly in Adobe Acrobat by modifying visibility of respective radio buttons (described below), this one might actually help someone. However the problem appears, when I open the PDF in Google Chrome. I attach (or at least I hope so) the form, so that you can have a look at it.

Current solution working in Adobe Acrobat

I have created several RB groups for every possibility:

Q1 - only one group containing anwser Yes and No

Q2 - two groups - one with Yes and No, the other one only with No

Q3 - three groups - Yes+No; Yes; No

Q4 - two goups - Yes+No; No

For individual RB in Q1 and Q2 is set up an action that displays / hides RB groups, so that the form works well. I won't describe the whole setup, just setup for Q1 for an idea:

Clicking on Yes:

Hides: Groups with just the anwser No in Q2 - Q4; Group just Yes in Q3

Shows: Groups with both Yes and No in Q2-Q4

Clicking on No:

Hides: Groups with both Yes and No in Q2-Q4; Group with just Yes in Q3

Shows: Groups with only No in Q2-Q4

As I said, it works just fine in Adobe Acrobat (no matter the version) and you don't need any javascript, but the problem comes in Google Chrome. Because this setup only hides those RB, Chrome still makes the hidden RB somehow clickable and thus you cannot select the right RB.

It is getting really frustrating and honestly I don't know what else I can do about it to make it work. I have tried using dropdown lists, however that makes it a bit problematic when you just print the form without filling it.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Morne · Accepted Answer

Ok guys, thank you for your ideas, I have actually managed to make it work. The core problem is, that there are multiple radio buttons on top of each other and it seems that chrome only makes it possible to click on the top one. By making the only possible anwser for that particular question pre-ticked (setting it as read-only is not necessary in this case) AND rearranging the order of RBs in the field menu, the form now works even in google chrome.

It is going to be pain to replicate it, as I need to do the same setup for four more rows of questions, but at least I finally know how to do that.

Thank you all for your support and for pushing me in the right direction. I have submitted this bug to google, so maybe, in the future, they will fix it. But for now, I have a working solution 🙂

Kind regards,

Jakub

Thom Parker · Answer

Setup the form so that if it is not opened in Acrobat or Reader, that it will display a warning to the user. Here's an example of how it can be done:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Lite-Document-Security-Description.cfm

Another options is to use the "Download" attribute in the <a> tag on the webpage where the file is linked. This usually causes the PDF to be downloaded, rather than displayed in the browser.

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