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I'm creating a form where someone indicates which professional development resources they are going to use to build skills in different areas by selecting the fillable checkboxes next to the resources. When they select the checkbox, the relevant resource is pulled into a text field in their Development Action Plan at the end of the form using the code below (found in a previous post) as 'Calculation' script of the text field:
if(this.getField("Checkbox1").valueAsString != "Off")
event.value = "Text for checkbox 1 goes here";
else if(this.getField("Checkbox2").valueAsString != "Off")
event.value = "Text for checkbox 2 goes here";
else
event.value = "";
I've changed the checkbox names in script to the names of my checkboxes and changed the event.value text to the resources I want to show - and all of this is working.
Here's where I need help: Some of the resources I want to pull into the text field when a box is checked are text that include hyperlinks, which don't pull through using the code above. Is there a way to modify the code I'm using so that the text being pulled into the text field will include a hyperlink? Or, if not, a clickable URL?
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Can you confirm where are the resources you mention? Locally stored, online, same or different file?
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The resources I want to link are online, accessible via the URLs I have hyperlinked in the text I'm pulling through using the script above.
(I'm including some screenshots from the form I'm creating -- the first one with the checkboxes shows the resources, including the hyperlinks to additional online resources, and the second is the text field the resources get pulled into when a box is checked)
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There are a couple of ways to create link actions in a PDF. Unfortunately it is not easy to creat a link over top of a text field.
Your best bet might be to create a separate button for each of the URLs. The buttons should be invisble, no border, background, or caption. Initially the buttons would also be invisible. Then when a checkbox requiring an URL is checked, the button is positioned and made visible. The text field under the button should be readonly so the clicks go to the button.