How can I make smiley icons visible or invisible by clicking them in a PDF form?

[JufEsther]

I'm creating a PDF report for preschool teachers, and I'd like them to be able to easily indicate feedback using smiley icons. Ideally, teachers should be able to toggle the visibility of each smiley by simply clicking on it: one click makes the smiley appear, another click hides it again.

How can I achieve this functionality in Adobe Acrobat? Can this be done using interactive form fields, buttons, or scripts? Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

[try67]

> Can this be done using interactive form fields, buttons, or scripts?

All of the above.

You can do it in a couple of ways:

- Create overlapping button fields, one with an image and one without, and show/hide them when the user clicks one. This can be done using a script, or even using the built-in Show/Hide a Field command, if set up properly.

- Use a single button and copy the icon to it (either the smiley face, or an empty image) from a set of (hidden) button fields each time the user clicks. This requires using a script.

Just be aware that this is not real "user input". You won't be able to export it to an Excel file for further analysis later on, for example, as the state of a button is not a value.

[PDF Automation Station]

Use a button field with the layout in the options tab set to Icon Only.  Load the image then enter this simply script as a Mouse Up action:

if(event.target.buttonPosition==0)
{event.target.buttonPosition=1}
else
{event.target.buttonPosition=0}

The script will show/hide the icon when it is clicked.  To rotate through multiple icons with each click follow the instructions in this article:

https://pdfautomationstation.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-pdf-button-image-carousel