Select radio button based on drop-down selection

Question

Hi. I'm a true beginner with script in Adobe forms so I'm hoping someone can help. I'm designing a form for in-processing (on-boarding) new employees and am trying to get radio buttons to select N/A based on the employee type. Certain employee types don't need to in-process all sections or areas within a section, which is why I want to fill N/A when selected.

The other radio buttons are "Yes" and "No", with "No" being the default, until they've in-processed something.

I've tried to figure this out on my own but am not getting anywhere so I appreciate any help.

Nesa Nurani · Accepted Answer

Move your script to validation and use radio button group field name not their choices, something like this:

if (event.target.value=="Military") {
this.getField("Group1").value = "NA1";

There is no "Military" and "Civilian" in dropdown as choices.

Also you can't use "" for radio button to set it to default, I belive you want it to set to N/A then you should use "NA1".

Try using this script as 'Validation' of dropdown field and in dropdown field -> options tab check 'Commit selected value immediately' this is important to do.

Here is script:

if(event.value=="Military")
this.getField("Group1").value = "NA1";
else if (event.value=="Civilian")
this.getField("Group1").value = "Yes1";
else
this.getField("Group1").value = "No1";

Here is also your files with changes already made, let me know if it needs to change anything (I added "Military" and "Civilian" to dropdown for example purpose:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1pI3MolSLEu2aWIKh3omc0Olh_kpeiljk

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