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[Veronica23389816zzh4]

If "employed" is selected in the dropdown, Make the employer name field required? How do I achieve this?

[John T Smith]

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[Veronica23389816zzh4]

I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

[ls_rbls]

++Edited Reply (added "return.rc = true;" to the second example script

Hi,

You may be able to achieve that with a validation script or a custom calculation script.

In the example below, I am running a  validation script event from the dropdown menu field:

event.rc = true;

if (event.value != "Employer") {

this.getField("employer").required = false;

} else {

this.getField("employer").required = true;

}

A more concise, maybe more elegant way, with same result is shown below expressed in a single line of code:

event.rc = true; (event.value != "Employer") ? this.getField("employer").required = false : this.getField("employer").required = true;

[try67]

There's no need to add

event.rc = true;

[ls_rbls]

Thank you Try67.

For some unknown reason to me the script wasn't working as intended without that line when used as validation script.