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Set the value of a radio button if a text field contains data.

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December 26, 2022
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I am attempting to set the value of a radio button is a text box contains data. I get the error messahe "SyntaxError: invalid property id 1: at line 2.

Here is my code.

If({{#assign "involvedPersonsVar"}} {{listIndex externalOffenses "involvedPersons" 1 }} {{/assign}} {{listIndex "involvedPersonsVar" "lastName" 1 filterField="involvement.name" filterValue="VICTIM_IN_OFFENSE"}}().length > 0)

this.getField(“Wit1").value="Victim";

else

this.getField("Wit1").value="";

Any help would be appreciated.

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Nesa Nurani

Community Expert

Use this as 'Validation' script of text field:

this.getField("Wit1").value = event.value == "" ? "Off" : "Victim";

Scott547Author

Participant

Thank you for the input Nesa but the code does not work.

I'm still searching how to set one of 3 radio buttons in the same group based upon data in a test field.

try67

Community Expert

This is not valid Acrobat JS syntax. Far from it...

Scott547Author

Participant

My current script follows. I would appreciate your input to make it correct
syntax.

this.getField("Wit1").value="Off";

// Cleared radio buttons

If({{#assign "involvedPersonsVar"}} {{listIndex externalOffenses
"involvedPersons" 1 }} {{/assign}} {{listIndex "involvedPersonsVar"
"lastName" 1 filterField="involvement.name"
filterValue="VICTIM_IN_OFFENSE"}}().length>0){this.getField("Wit1").value="Victim";}else{this.getField("Wit1").value="Off";}

try67

Community Expert

I have a fillable PDF form that gets data from a database. Fields on the
form are for a passenger, witness or victim. There is a radio button that
identifies which type of individual is listed. The field is to populate if
there is a victim in the data. If so the name will be tagged from the
database. If not, the field will be blank. I would like to have the radio
button with Victim checked if there is data.

Please let me know if this is unclear or you need anything.

How is the data being imported into the file, exactly? The issue is that importing data doesn't usually trigger any calculation scripts, so you'll have to do so manually, or place the code as a doc-level script, and then re-open the file after importing the data for it to "kick in".

M

Mike Bro

Legend

Hello @Scott547,

Take a look here https://acrobatusers.com/forum/javascript/set-radio-button-based-value-another-field/ to see if it helps you.

Regards,

Mike

Scott547Author

Participant

Mike,

Thank you for your quick response. I checked out the link and I get the same error code as before. I have a Radio button (Wit1) with 3 options, :Witness", "Passenger" and "Victim". I have tagged the name filed from another program to fill in the PDF so I know that if data is present it will be a victim name and the length will be greater than 0. Then I only want to check the "Victim" radion button. If there is no name, then I do not want to have any button checked. I did add the code to turn off the button at the beginning. Any ideas?

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