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Richard233923575d4b
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March 1, 2022
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Get Name of checkbox field from click

  • March 1, 2022
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Hello All, 

First time post here, but I couldn't find anything on this particular subject so I felt I needed to reach out.

 

I have a document with hundreds of checkboxes. I'm trying to instruct these checkboxes to run a document level code on mouseup, but in order for it to run correctly, I need the name of the checkbox field being checked/unchecked. I am currently doing this by looping through all fields in the document, but it's causing the document to be really slow. 

I've tried using event.source.name and other variants, but no luck. 

Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer JR Boulay

// name of active field
var strFldName = event.target.name;

// if field's name contain "text-12"
if (/text-12/.test(strFldName)) {
// your script here
}

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JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 2, 2022

try67 is right, you should use this instead, "\b" means "word limit":

if (/\btext-12\b/.test(strFldName)) {

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    try67
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    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 2, 2022

    Not sure why you need a regular expression at all... You can just do a simple comparison, like this:

    if (event.target.name=="text-12") {

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      Richard233923575d4bAuthor
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      March 2, 2022

      Many thanks to you both for your feedback on this. 

      I took the time to rename all of the checkboxes before starting this, but I appreciate you two bringing this point up. 

      This is really a simple bit of code to highlight a premade selection of text when the corresponding checkbox is selected (to make selections more easily visible). In case anyone else comes up on a similar problem, I'll include my code below.

      // code in each checkbox

      var myName = event.target.name;
var myPage = this.pageNum;
hiLighter(myName, myPage);

       

      //document level javascript function

      function hiLighter(myName, myPage)
{
var curField = this.getField(myName);
if (curField.type == "checkbox") {
    var hiLite = this.getAnnot(myPage, "HL."+myName);
    if (hiLite != null){
    if (curField.value == "Yes") hiLite.hidden = false;
    if (curField.value == "Off") hiLite.hidden = true;
}
}
}

       

        JR Boulay
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        JR BoulayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
        Community Expert
        March 2, 2022

        // name of active field
        var strFldName = event.target.name;

        // if field's name contain "text-12"
        if (/text-12/.test(strFldName)) {
        // your script here
        }

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          Richard233923575d4bAuthor
          Participant
          March 2, 2022

          Thanks very much, JR. 

          It wouldn't work until I added an additional line passing the "event.target.name" to a variable.

          // I was trying this...
          functionName(event.target.name);

          // This is what worked

          var myName = event.target.name
          functionName(myName);

           

            try67
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            try67Community Expert
            Community Expert
            March 1, 2022

            It's event.target.name, actually.

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