How to populate multiple text boxes from one dropdown selection

[riptide2030]

Hi there

I am trying to populate two text boxes on a form triggered by one selection from a dropdown list.

Each dropdown selection has two attributes that I want to display, with one of them able to be overwritten.

My knowledge is limited but I have managed to get it to work for one attribute running this script on the 'Colour' dropdown Mouse up trigger:-

this.getField("Colour").setItems(new Array(

["",""],

["Black","1995"],

["White","1993"],

["Grey","1998"]

));

And adding this custom calculation script to the 'Year' text box:-

event.value=this.getField("Colour").value

(This variable is fixed and can’t be changed by the user).

I'd like to populate a second text box ‘Percentage’, with a colour attribute value (0.75%, 0.50%, 0.00% respectively), that could be overwritten by the user.

I thought I could just extend the array to cover a third variable but I can't make that work.

Can anyone guide me with how to do this?

Many thanks

[try67]

You can put multiple values in the second variable, separated by a known delimiter (such as "~" or ";") and then use the split method to split that single string into an array of strings, and apply each part to a different field.

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