Checklist

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October 25, 2023
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I am creating a document with approximately 25 questions that my patients will fill out. The questions will be answered by selecting answers from items in a checklist or drop down menu. Is it possible to create some code to have the selected items be listed in a summary section at the end of the document? Any information would be greatly appreciated

try67

Community Expert

Yes, it is. Do you just want to aggregate them into a single text field, basically?

What should happen if no answer is selected in some fields?

jims93505381Author

Participant

I appreciate you responding to my post. I have questions that all have answers even if the answer is....Non-applicable. I placed a screen shot of one of the test pages. These are 4 of the 25 diagnosis points that I go through and answer. My goal would be to compile all of the answers into a section of the pdf at the end as a summary or even in a whole separate document so that things are clean and concise for the patient to read. See the problem is that you can't hide all the choices to each question in a drop down and have multiple selections. Sometimes I might have two or three of the items for each question selected and you can't do that with a drop down therefore the choices to the questions have to be listed in each section as a checklist which to me is overwhelming to present to the patient. Let me know your thoughts

try67

Community Expert

All of this is possible, although copying the data to another file is a bit tricky, especially automatically. But creating a sort of "summary" page with just the user's selections is certainly doable.

However, this would require the development of a custom-made script. If you're interested in hiring a professional to create it for you, feel free to contact me privately by clicking my user-name and then on "Send a Message".

Amal.

Legend

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

The workflow you are trying to achieve is might be possible using JavaScript. For more information, please check the help pages listed below:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console/
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scripts-pdfs.html

Hope it will help

Regards
Amal

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