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Cody31571176p4kg
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August 9, 2023
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Populate Dropdown options from textfield

  • August 9, 2023
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Hello, 

Im trying to have a dropdown menus options be populated based on the input in two other textfields

 

ex: I have a textfield named "buyerName1" and another named "buyerName2". I would like to have what is inputed into those two fields be the only 2 options available when you click on the dropdown field. This seems like it should be reletively simple but im having trouble finding a guide for it and im very new to Adobe. 

 

Thank you for any help you can provide!

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    Nesa Nurani
    Community Expert
    Nesa NuraniCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 9, 2023

    Try this as custom calculation script of dropdown field:

    var b1 = this.getField("buyerName1").valueAsString;
var b2 = this.getField("buyerName2").valueAsString;
var drop = [];
if (event.source && (event.source.name=="buyerName1" || event.source.name=="buyerName2")) {
 if(b1)drop.push(b1);
 if(b2)drop.push(b2);
 if(drop.length !== 0)
 event.target.setItems(drop);
 else
 event.target.clearItems();}
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    Cody31571176p4kgAuthor
    Participant
    August 10, 2023

    Thank you for the responce! I wasnt able to make this work but that might vary well be my fault.

    I set this up under "Actions", Select trigger as "Mouse down", Select action as "Run JavaScript" and then copy and pasted the exact script you placed above. When I go to the sign section and click on the dropdown box all I get is a ding and nothing else. I also exported the PDF and tried it in another PDF application with the same result. Should I have placed this in a different area or restructed the script itself?

     

    I do really appreciate the help as I have extremely limited experience with both Adobe and Javascript 🥹

    Nesa Nurani
    Community Expert
    Nesa NuraniCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 10, 2023

    As I wrote in my previous post, use it as 'custom calculation script' of dropdown field.

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