Click a checkbox to copy content from one form field to another

[Scott Crawford]

I am working on a form that will have 3 different sections — all with identical fields (“Attn”, “Company”, “ Address”, “City”, “State”, “Zip”, “Phone”, “Email”, etc). Each section may end up with different content, but may occasionally need to be the same. In this case, I would like the user to click a checkbox and have sections 2 & 3 auto-populate using the content from the fields in section 1. I am not versed in javascript, but I am hoping someone can give me a nudge in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

[Nesa Nurani]

Lets say you have fields "Email1","Phone1" and "Email2","Phone2", as Mouse UP event of checkbox you can use script like this:

if(event.target.value != "Off"){
this.getField("Email2").value = this.getField("Email1").value;
this.getField("Phone2").value = this.getField("Phone1").value;}

Adapt code to your needs.

[Scott Crawford]

Thank you for your reply. I added the script to the checkbox actions and get an illegal character error in the JavaScript Editor (see highlighted line in screenshot). Pardon my ignorance on this.

[Nesa Nurani · Accepted solution]

Try this:

if(event.target.value != "Off"){
this.getField("Attn_2").value = this.getField("Attn").value;
this.getField("Attn_3").value = this.getField("Attn").value;
this.getField("Company_2").value = this.getField("Company").value;
this.getField("Company_3").value = this.getField("Company").value;
this.getField("Delivery Address_2").value = this.getField("Delivery Address").value;
this.getField("Delivery Address_3").value = this.getField("Delivery Address").value;}

[Scott Crawford]

Thank you so much for your help on this! This works exactly as I had hoped.