Acrobat dropdowns menus on layers

[lapman12]

Is it possible to put dropdown boxes on a layer by themselves? I've tried to import a layer with Dropdowns on it but it disables the effects when I do.

[Lilybiri]

Are you talking about Acrobat or about Captivate?

[lapman12]

Acrobat

[Lilybiri]

OK, will move your question to the Acrobat forum.

[George_Johnson]

Although it's technically possible to include a form field in a layer (OCG, technically), there is no user interface in Acrobat for this (apart from Preflight) and even of you do the behavior might not be what you expect. If you want to show/hide things, use form fields.

[lapman12]

How would I do this in a Form Field?

[George_Johnson]

Instead of using layers, you can use read-only buttons to show/hide content. You can set a button's icon to the same content as you'd use for a layer. If you use hierarchical field naming (e.g., group1.background, group1.dropdown1, group1.text2), it's easy to control a group of fields with JavaScript. For example:

// Turn off all the group1 fields

getField("group1").display = display.hidden;