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mcolvin2005
mcolvin2005
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September 30, 2017
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Setting a form field to auto fill based on another field

  • September 30, 2017
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First of all i'm new to the calculations in Acrobat but i'm trying to figure out two things

First is i'm trying to Field A and Field B to equal field C

example Field A = Hello Field B=2014 so Field C would equal Hello2014

2nd I have a topaz signature pad that i capture signatures with and i would love to have a script that will auto save the file base on what is in Field C from above after the signature was captured or even open a save as box

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    Correct answer try67

    1. Use this code as the custom calculation script of Field C:

    event.value = this.getField("Field A").valueAsString + this.getField("Field B").valueAsString;

    2. That's more complicated. To save the file without user interaction requires installing a script on the local machine.

    See: https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript

    The alternative is to present the user with the desired file name, and then open that Save As dialog and hope they use it.

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    Darren Bates - Sydney
    New Participant
    April 3, 2020

    try67 - You are brilliant!! - This custom calculation allows the developer to set alternative text formatting such as beeing bold an in a smaller font (set in the property Dialog box). If you simply duplicate the text field then it takes on the text formating of the parent field. I know that you know this, however, other newbies might not so this is a great solution along with concatenating fields together. Thank you again! 🙂 

    try67
    try67Correct answer
    Community Expert
    September 30, 2017

    1. Use this code as the custom calculation script of Field C:

    event.value = this.getField("Field A").valueAsString + this.getField("Field B").valueAsString;

    2. That's more complicated. To save the file without user interaction requires installing a script on the local machine.

    See: https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript

    The alternative is to present the user with the desired file name, and then open that Save As dialog and hope they use it.

      MFHawk
      MFHawk
      New Participant
      November 2, 2021

      Hi, I've been looking throughout the community support for javascript to help me with my issue.  Not sure it aligns to this but hope you can help.

      I have a form which I have automatically calculating a total based on a series of check box values.  I would like to use that total to then display text in a text box below based on variables of  greater than or less than.  Looking at other threads I have written this script but nothing is displaying in the text field.  Is there something I am missing?

      var v = this.getField("C1TotalScore").valueAsString;
      if (v=="") event.value = "";
      else {
      var score = Number(v);
      if (score<15) event.value = "Sample Text 1";
      else if (score>=16 && score<=32) event.value = "Sample text 2";
      else if (score>=33) event.value = "Sample text 3";
      }

      try67
      try67
      Community Expert
      November 3, 2021

      The code looks fine. Check the JS Console for error messages, though.

      If no error messages appear share the file for further help.

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