Need Help with Drop down menu

[smirkguy88]

Hello,

I have a similar situation in which I'm trying to highlight specific sections when I choose a specific drop down option.  Could you please help me out as well. Please see my example of my pdf form below.

I saw this script from this posting on forum and I want something similar to this:Solved: Conditional formatting of cell's fill based on tex... - Adobe Support Community - 10706981

My Adobe Acrobat Pro Form

 

[try67]

In what way do you want to highlight them, exactly?

[smirkguy88]

I would like to highlight the fields with either a red boarder or a fill to show which items need to be filled out. 

Thank You 🙂 

[Thom Parker]

The concept is the same. Use a validation script on the dropdown to set the  border color of the fields you want highlighted, depending on the selection.

Here's a template for how your code should look. Put this code in custom validation script for the dropdown. You'll need to change the field and list items names, and fill in the missing fields and selection options. 

// First hide all field borders
this.getField("Field1").strokeColor = ["T"]; 
this.getField("Field2").strokeColor = ["T"]; 
... etc. (repeat for all affected fields)
// Next highlight the field borders, depending on the current selection
switch(event.value)
{
   case "Selection#1":
     this.getField("Field1").strokeColor = color.red; 
     this.getField("Field2").strokeColor = color.red; 
     break;
   case "Selection#1":
     this.getField("Field3").strokeColor = color.red; 
     this.getField("Field5").strokeColor = color.red; 
     break;
}

[smirkguy88]

Thank you for your help, I will test this out later today and see if it works for me.

[smirkguy88]

Could provide me a litte more detail on how it would look if I wanted to highlight one of the fields such as the first name.

Sorry I'm a noob at this. I appreciate any and all assistance. 

[Thom Parker]

Ok, so what is the name of the first name field?  Everything about form fields is controlled through the name. Please be exact. 

Take a look a this article:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/PDF-Form-Scripting.cfm

[smirkguy88]

Hi Sorry for the late response, the name of the first field would be one of the drop downs from "type of change" field.  For instance if I choose cubicle option in the dropdown field I would like for the First Name, Last Name, User Id, and all of the other fields to be highlighted red for that specific choice. 

Thank You 

[Thom Parker]

The script I posted goes into the Custom Validation Script for the Drop down field. 

You don't need to know the name of that field becuase it's where the script goes. What you need is the name of the fields that are highlighted. In my script those fields are "Field1", "Field2", "Field3", and "Field5".  For your fields the script would look like this:

// First hide all field borders
this.getField("Field1").strokeColor = ["T"]; 
this.getField("Field2").strokeColor = ["T"]; 
... etc. (repeat for all affected fields)
// Next highlight the field borders, depending on the current selection
switch(event.value)
{
   case "cubicle":
     this.getField("First Name").strokeColor = color.red; 
     this.getField("Last Name").strokeColor = color.red; 
     this.getField("User Id").strokeColor = color.red; 
     break;
   case "Selection#1":
     this.getField("Field3").strokeColor = color.red; 
     this.getField("Field5").strokeColor = color.red; 
     break;
}

But you have to be sure these are the actual names of the fields. In your post these are the text labels in front of the fields.  

[smirkguy88]

Hi Thom,

Is the image below what youre reffering to regarding the field names. 

Thank you for your help so far 🙂 

[Thom Parker]

That is correct, those are the field names.  Is the script working?

[smirkguy88]

Hi Thom for some reason I'm getting a SyntaxError am I doing something wrong? 

Thank You 

[try67]

Remove the line that starts with "...", or add "//" (without the quotes) before it to comment it out, since it's not valid code.

[Thom Parker]

The "... etc. (repeat for all affected fields)" is not code. It's just there to let you know you need to add in the code for the real fields on your form.   

And, the code won't work unless you replace the fake field names in my code with the real field names on your form. 

[smirkguy88]

Hi Thom,

I may have to play with it more as I'm terrible with code 😄 

For some reason I can't seem to get the code to interact with my form : / 

I know its more user error than your actual code.  Thank you for your patience thus far. 

[Thom Parker]

I would suggest that you spend some time learning Core JavaScript. It doesn't take much time to go over the beginner lessons. Just search and you'll find plenty, like this one:

https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

And then you can learn about Acrobat JavaScript here:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/