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Verinoca5FD8
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August 24, 2021
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Conditional Formatting: How to create a "stoplight"

  • August 24, 2021
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Hi everybody,

 

I want to set up a form in which depending if 3 of the criteria are answered with a dropdown "Yes", a text field is filled with a corresponding color and/or text, indicating that all criteria are met (or not).

 

Example:

 

I have been playing around with various Javascripts I found in the forums, but none really seemed to work.

 

Do you have any suggestions on how I could solve this? Or how I could at leaset get the answers in the dropdown to change colour depending on the selected answer? 

 

Thank you! 

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Correct answer Nesa Nurani

Hi, small question:

How should the Javascript be if I want the "stoplight" to turn red as well, as soon as two of three options is set to no? Currently it "only" turns red when all three options are no.

Thank you!


change: (score ==0) to: (score<=1)

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try67
try67
Community Expert
August 24, 2021

So if all the fields are set to Yes it should be green, if any field is set to No it should be amber, and if all are set to No it should be red?

Also, in the screenshot your fields don't look like drop-downs. What actual fields are they?

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Verinoca5FD8Author
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August 24, 2021

So if all the fields are set to Yes it should be green, if any field is set to No it should be amber, and if all are set to No it should be red? // Exactly

 

Also, in the screenshot your fields don't look like drop-downs. What actual fields are they? // The screenshot is made in Excel just for demonstrations purposes. The fields would be Dropdown fields in Acrobat Pro

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Verinoca5FD8Author
Participating Frequently
August 26, 2021

OK, then let's say they're called Dropdown1 to 3. Create a (read-only) text field with the following code as the custom calculation script to achieve what you described:

 

var score = 0;
for (var i=1; i<=3; i++) {
	var f = this.getField("Dropdown"+i);
	if (f.valueAsString=="Yes") score++;
}
if (score==0) event.target.fillColor = color.red;
else if (score<3)  event.target.fillColor = ["RGB", 255/255, 191/255, 0/255];
else event.target.fillColor = color.green;

 

I would also recommend to set the option to commit the selected value of the drop-down fields immediately, which can be found under their Properties, in the Options tab.


It works! Thank you so much! 

Is it possible to also make the read-only text field which is now the "stoplight" show the colour without having to click on it? Because right now the box is grey/blue, and only "turns" green/orange/red when I click on it.

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