Use Textbox in one form to Populate Dropdown in other form

Question

I have a multiline text box (List of possible names) in form #1 that i am trying to use to populate a dropdown box in form #2 where the user will select a name from that list for a specific response.
I tried FDF to export out from form #1 and import into form #2 with no luck. "Textbox" to "Dropdown" via FDF does not push the contents of the textbox into the dropdown. I have tried to populate a 'helper' dropdown in form number 1 and then use the FDF export/import process (so i am moving data from a dropdown in form #1 to a dropdown in form #2) but this also was unsuccessful.

i am hopeful the community may have a suggestion.

Please let me know if additional info is needed.

thank you all kindly in advance.

try67 · Answer

Not directly, no. However, what you can do is populate another (hidden) text field with the names from the original field, and then use a script to populate the items in the drop-down with those names.

The latter code would be something like this:

var names = this.getField("Names").valueAsString;

this.getField("NamesList").setItems(names.split("\r"));

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