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Inspiring
May 17, 2018
Question

PDF drop down reference to external data

  • May 17, 2018
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I'm looking for a way to have a user select an item from a drop down, where the selections within the drop down are from an externally managed list.  Is this even possible in Acrobat?

Thanks

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try67
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Community Expert
May 17, 2018

Under some conditions, yes. Is this list going to be located on the local machine? On a network drive? On a website?

What's the format of the list file? Can a script be installed on the local machine of all the users who are going to be using it? etc.

Inspiring
May 17, 2018

Local machine only.  The format of the file me doesn't matter to me - whatever will work.  .txt would be fine)  Scripts can be installed.

Thanks.

try67
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Community Expert
May 17, 2018

In that case it should be possible. A script will have to be written to read the input file, parse it, use the data from it to set the options of the field, and then re-apply the old value (if possible).

If you're interested in someone creating such a script for you (for a small fee), feel free to contact me privately at: try6767 at gmail.com .