Dropdown List exporting a simplified link

[Christopher Teacher]

I'm making a form with a dropdown list that exports a variety of values based on user selection.  Some of those values need to be web links; however, I would prefer they were not visible as the whole link, but rather as links embedded within text.  Is that possible, and if so, how would I do it? 

(Be aware, my knowledge of Javascript is pretty basic, but I'm good at copy/paste and I can change field names!)

[bebarth]

To the document-level script!

But have a look on the file of my previous answer, the script of the function has been updated.

Else:

function gradeLevelStandardScoreOrLink(ind) {
	try {
		this.removeField("theText"+ind);
		this.removeField("theLink"+ind);
	} catch(e) {}
	this.getField("Standard_score"+ind).display=display.visible;
	this.getField("Standard_score"+ind).setAction("MouseUp", "app.beep(0);");
	if (event.changeEx!="0") {
		var f=this.getField(event.target.name);
		for (var i=0; i<f.numItems; i++) {
			if (event.changeEx==f.getItemAt(i,true)) {
				if (event.changeEx.indexOf("link")==0) {
					var coord=this.getField("Standard_score"+ind).rect;
					this.getField("Standard_score"+ind).display=display.hidden;
					var f=this.addField("theText"+ind, "text", 0, coord);
					f.richText=true;
					f.readonly=true;
					spans=[{
						text: eval("allLinks."+event.changeEx+".theText"),
						textColor: color.blue,
						textSize: eval("allLinks."+event.changeEx+".theSize"),
						underline: true,
					}];
					f.richValue=spans;
					var f=this.addField("theLink"+ind, "button", 0, coord);
					f.setAction("MouseUp","app.launchURL(\""+eval("allLinks."+event.changeEx+".theURL")+"\",true);");
					f.setAction("MouseEnter","spans=[{text: \""+eval("allLinks."+event.changeEx+".theText")+"\",textColor: color.red,textSize: "+eval("allLinks."+event.changeEx+".theSize")+",underline: true,}];this.getField(\"theText"+ind+"\").richValue=spans;");
					f.setAction("MouseExit","spans=[{text: \""+eval("allLinks."+event.changeEx+".theText")+"\",textColor: color.blue,textSize: "+eval("allLinks."+event.changeEx+".theSize")+",underline: true,}];this.getField(\"theText"+ind+"\").richValue=spans;");
				} else this.getField("Standard_score"+ind).buttonSetCaption(f.getItemAt(i,true));
				break;
			}
		}
	} else {
		this.getField("Standard_score"+ind).buttonSetCaption("");
		this.getField("theText"+ind).value="";
	}
}

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[Christopher Teacher]

Huh.  Still didn't work.  I'm attaching the updated form.  I added a form reset button, and you can see that where I've made selections from the assessment dropdown, if it was a link, the reset button will remove the text, but when you mouse-enter, that reappears.  If I select an assessement from the dropdown that only exports text, that will not clear at all.  Thank you again!

[try67]

That's because you hard-coded the text into the code. Instead of doing that you should read the field's current contents, and then change their color, if it's not blank.

[bebarth]

Hi,

Here is your file where I modifyed a bit the script and I place a script in your Clear button.

for (var i=1; i<=9; i++) {
	this.removeField("theText"+i);
	this.removeField("theLink"+i);
	this.getField("Standard_score"+i).display=display.hidden;
}
this.resetForm();

Concerning the function script, I removed the "try" statment for removing the fields.

In the previous script, I placed "removeField" with "try" statment in the case these fields don't exist but that doesn't work... That only works without the "try" statment and there is no error message if the field doesn't exist... I don't know why!

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[try67]

Because removeField doesn't throw an Exception if the field name you supply to it doesn't exist. It doesn't return any values, either.

[bebarth]

That's what I noticed, thanks!

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