Need help with code

[Marietaa]

Hi, I want to export checkboxes values to textfield if it's checked, I have this code but it only works for last checkbox what I'm missing? checkboxes are "c 1" to "c 5".

var cVal = "";
for (var i=1; i<=5; i++) {
cVal =(this.getField("c " + i).value);}
event.value = cVal;

[ls_rbls]

You can try it like this:

var f = this.getField("c");
var cVal = f.getArray();
var v = 0;
for (var i=0; i< cVal.length; i++) 
v +=cVal[i].value+" ";
event.value = v;

[Marietaa]

thanks for your help but that code doesn't do anything. I put it in my text field custom calculation script right?

[ls_rbls]

I made a mistake. And yes run it as custom calculation script.

Here it is:

var f = getField("c");
var cVal = f.getArray();
var v = "";
for (i =0 ; i < cVal.length ; i++)  v += (cVal[ i ].value+" ")
event.value = v;

I'm not sure if the way you have the checkbox fields like "c 1", "c 2", "c 3" with a space in between the letter c and then followed by a number will work (but I may be wrong).

The getArray() method in Acrobat will assume that a parent name for a field has a hierarchy of  "children" fields.

Usually the children field names are prefixed with the parent name and suffixed after a period (or maybe another special character). For example:  myFieldName.1, myFieldName.2, myFieldName.3

If you are going to use the array the way you have it , then you may need to consider using  the "new Array()" method.

[Marietaa]

Again I'm not getting anything, my fields are named "c 1" with space, if I change them to "c.1" then I get this:

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

Try this:

var cVal = 0;
for (var i=1; i<=5; i++) {
  cV =this.getField("c " + i).value;
  if (cV != "Off") cVal += cV;  // <-- corrected
}
event.value = cVal;

[Marietaa]

Hi Bernd, thx for helping but I'm getting this error.

SyntaxError: syntax error
5:Console:Exec
undefined

[Bernd Alheit]

The error was a "," it must a ";".

[ls_rbls]

use ";"  not ","  in this line 

  if (cV != "Off") cVal += cV,

[Marietaa]

That code worked now. Thank you both for help.

[ls_rbls]

What a nice little piece of code...  Thank you!

Very useful.