Required Response Needed for Each Group of Checkboxes Before Form Submits

[mcelmurrygal]

Hi Everyone,

I've looked at multiple postings and none of them seem to give me exactly what I need, so now I'm posting for help please.

I have a form that contains 25 rows of questions with associated groups of checkboxes to answer by the recipients. I need to make it a requirement so that ONE of the checkboxes are marked for each of the questions before they can submit the form.

See my screen shot below:

For example, in the first orange row all 3 checkboxes are titled "PAIN" with export values of: "YES", "NO", and "UNSURE".

On the second row, all 3 checkboxes are titled, "1" with export values of: "YES", "NO", and "UNSURE".

Third row and on just keep going in the same manner. Each row share the same title and have the export values as mentioned above.

Is there a script I can use so that the recipients are required to select 1 checkbox from each group/row before they will be allowed to submit their form?

Also, if you can provide the script I would use (if that's the solution), please let me know where I would enter that script (i.e. - as a mouse up action item, or a document script, etc.). I'm still learning these steps and need instructions on them.

If it's needed, I'm using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

Thanks in advance for anyone that can help!!

[try67]

I answered pretty much exactly the same question yesterday: Multiple Checkboxes - AT LEAST one required

[mcelmurrygal]

Hi try67‌

Thank you for reply and I see your thread and still have some questions please.

You suggested the following; however I don't know if I need to enter that script into each checkbox "mouse up" action, or where do I use this?

Also, each of the checkboxes also have a script mouse-up action to highlight a certain color when selected. (I don't know if that makes a difference or not when adding the below)

And I have my "SUBMIT" button setup so that it is email to 4 different people when clicked.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

The script is meant to replace your current Submit Form command.

To specify multiple recipients you can add them to the cTo parameter, delimited by semi-colons, like this:

} else this.mailDoc({cTo: "me@server.com;john@server.com;kelly@server.com"});

[mcelmurrygal]

Okay,

So I replaced my "SUBMIT Form" action with your script above and it's definitely showing a pop-up window when I try to submit the form indicating the fields marked as "required" haven't been completed.

But it's not including any of the checkbox groups in the rows/columns in bottom half of my form.

Do I need to do something to the checkboxes to so that they're included in this requirement? Should I mark all of them as required? The reason I ask is because I thought that if I marked all the checkboxes as "required", then wouldn't it require the recipient to select them all before submitting the form?

Sorry if these are dumb, obvious questions - I'm still learning here.

I've saved a screenshot below of what I"m getting: As you can see, I didn't check any of the checkboxes, and when I hit SUBMIT, the only fields it is still requiring me to answer are the text fields at the top of the form.

[mcelmurrygal]

Hi try67‌

Never mind on my last question - I didn't realize I needed to mark all the checkboxes are "required" (thought it would produce a different outcome).

Everything works perfectly!

Thank you again for all your help and patience