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July 16, 2023
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Suggestions for what to use other than dropdown lists?

  • July 16, 2023
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Hi Everybody! Happy Weekend!

I'm creating a PDF document that has room for 8 license numbers at the top. Anywhere from 1 to 8 of those license numbers may need to be included when filling in the document.

 

I was setting it up with 8 dropdown lists (two columns of four) and each list has all of the license numbers in it so that the numbers can be chosen as needed, and if less than 8 then the unchosen ones remain invisible when it occurred to me that there might be a better way. Not that I don't dislike this method but still...

 

I'm loving the camaraderie here so I thought I'd jump in and ask ... any thoughts?

 

Thank you so much!

Diane

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    Correct answer try67

    One possible option is to use a text field, with a button to populate it with the selected numbers from a pop-up menu. Each item you select will be added to the text field, so you end up with a list of numbers in one field. It can be a multi-line field, or they can be separated with a comma, for example. Doing it will require using a script, of course.

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    try67
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    July 16, 2023

    One possible option is to use a text field, with a button to populate it with the selected numbers from a pop-up menu. Each item you select will be added to the text field, so you end up with a list of numbers in one field. It can be a multi-line field, or they can be separated with a comma, for example. Doing it will require using a script, of course.

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      dianed97898145Author
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      July 16, 2023

      Hi! 🙂

       

      Thank you! I like that!

       

      I'm wondering if I might be able to use that for the "scope of work" field as well. If there are say 5 scopes of work, each is different from the other, maybe 3 or 4 paragraphs in each scope, I could use your suggestion to populate the "scope of work" field instead of typing the text in or copying it from another document and pasting it in (as long as the text in each scope of work stays the same).

      Does that make sense?

       

      Thank you again!! 🙂

      try67
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      try67Community Expert
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      July 24, 2023

      Hi Try67! 🙂

      I was wondering, would this work when the scope of work spans 3 pages?

       

      The end user has huge scopes of work. He was planning on pasting the scope of work into the field but it's more text than one page/field (the field covers the whole page) can hold.

       

      I need to figure out how to make the text that he copies and pastes into the field automatically send the overflow text to the next field, and then a 3rd field if needed. Otherwise he has to copy the text, paste it into the first field, then go back and recopy whatever didn't fit into the first field to paste that text into the 2nd field, and so on - or find a different solution.

       

      Thank you, again, so much!! 🙂


      Doing it automatically is very tricky, as it would require calculating how much text can fit in a text field, and that's very difficult to do, unless the font used is monospaced.

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