MultipleCheckboxes to populate 1 textbox

[lilleem89]

Hi,

I am really new to javascript so bear with me. I am making a form where I have many checkboxes all named "checkbox 1" and so on (like 30 or more) that I have assigned export values (such as "red", "blue", "green"..etc).  I need all of those checkboxes to populate their given export values to a single textbox(textbox 1) when checked and to remove the value when unchecked. also I need to have the values separated by commas when they are populated to the textbox and to be able to manually type in the text box as well. Please help

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Use this code as the custom calculation script of your text field:

var values = [];
for (var i=1; i<=30; i++) {
    var fname = "checkbox "+i;
    var f = this.getField(fname);
    if (f==null) {
        console.println("Error! Can't find: " + fname);
        continue;
    }
    if (f.valueAsString!="Off") values.push(f.valueAsString);
}
event.value = values.join(", ");

[lilleem89]

I also want to have a text box(Text4) to populate the same text box that check boxes populate to. How do I add that to the above script ?

[try67]

I don't follow what you mean...

[lilleem89]

I have the checkboxes populating to "textbox 1" as discussed above. Now I want a textbox that I have named "textbox 4" to populate whatever I type in it to "textbox 1" as well.  So in the end the checkboxes AND "textbox 4" will populate to "textbox 1".

Does that make sense?

[try67]

Change the name of "textbox 4" to "textbox 1" and it will happen automatically.

[lilleem89]

That won't work because the check boxes that populate to "textbox 1" then populate to "textbox 4" if the textboxes have the same name and I don't want the check boxes to populate to both textboxes....Just "textbox 1"

[try67]

But you want to copy the value from "textbox 1" to "textbox 4", right? So what's the difference?

[try67]

Sorry, I understand now what you want to do.

Add this line before the last line of the previous code:

if (this.getField("textbox 4").valueAsString!="") values.push(this.getField("textbox 4").valueAsString);

[lilleem89]

It's still populating the checkbox values that are supposed to only go to "textbox 1" to "textbox 4".  It's Literally just copying "textbox 1" and putting it into "textbox 4"

[lilleem89]

I just want what is typed into "textbox 4" to populate to "textbox 1" in addition to the checkboxes that already populate to "textbox 1"

[lilleem89]

I got it to work! thank you very much I appreciate it

[lilleem89]

I got it to work! Thanks!

[longv41781707]

In this example, instead of separating by a comma, how do I start a new text line for the next value?

[try67]

Replace:

join(", ");

with:

join("\n");