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suzmosb
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October 15, 2018
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Character Count from Fillable PDF?

  • October 15, 2018
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I'm trying to make a smart order form and I'm stuck on a field. I'm pretty sure the answer is "Javascript" but I'm hilariously out of practice with that so I'm hoping you can help!

I need to calculate cost for a personalized item. The cost is based off the number of characters in a string.

So basically it looks like:

Personalization: [fillable text field here]

Character Count: [number of characters in Personalization field]

Total Cost: [$0.50*character count]

I can get the total cost (a simplified field notation) but is there a way to automatically generate the character count?

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Correct answer try67

Sure. Use this code as the custom calculation script of the Character Count field:

event.value = this.getField("Personalization").valueAsString.length;

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try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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October 15, 2018

Sure. Use this code as the custom calculation script of the Character Count field:

event.value = this.getField("Personalization").valueAsString.length;

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