Overwriting an auto populated text field from a drop down box.

[Sherrie5C54]

I have a form that I am building that has a drop box that will auto populate a text field based on what the end user selects..  I also need the user to be able to overwrite that information with their own in the populated text field.  I’ve searched, but cannot find a solution that works for what I need.  When the populated text is overwritten, it defaults back to  the original text.  Any help would be appreciated., thank you.

[Thom Parker]

From your description I'm assuming that your autopopulate script is in the calculate event in the text field?  If so then delete it.

Put the script for auto-populating the text field in the "Validation" script for the dropdown. Then data in the text field can be overwritten manually.  

[bebarth · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Did you have a look on this post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/is-there-a-way-to-allow-end-user-to-overwrite-a-a...

Here is an other example with a drop down box.

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[Sherrie5C54]

Thank you!  This worked.