Simple Help! - Checkbox value to textfield

Question

Hello, I have something that may be simple to most of you but difficult for me. That being said, please forgive my ignorance and thank you in advance for your valuable help! I have a form where lets say there are 3 text fields with names. Let's call them: "name1, name2, name3" and in those 3 text fields you can add a name. Let's say: "John, Jamie, Bob" (name1 = John) (name2 = Jamie) (name3 = Bob). Now let's say I have a check box next to each text field (cb1, cb2, cb3 - checkbox1, 2, 3). So now let's say I have "textbox main" and let's say I click a value of "off and on" for each checkbox. If I default cb1 for "John" or "name1" then it will appear on "textbox main". If i click on "cb2" or in this case "Jamie" or "name2" then it will appear on "textbox main". Finally if i click on cb3 or checkbox 3 for "Bob" or "name3" then again, it will appear on "textbox main". Does that make sense? Thank you for your time and help and hopefully someone out there can help!

ls_rbls · Accepted Answer

There are many ways to accomplish this with JavaScript scripting.

In my personal case, I named all checkboxes as "cb" but changed their export values to "cb1", "cb2", and "cb3" respectively to make them mutually exclusive. Making these checkboxes mutually exclusive will make the checkboxes behave like a radio button by which a single selection is made out of the three checkboxes.

This is to avoid "textbox main" field from autopopulating all the values in name1, name2, and /or name3 if more than one checkbox was checked.

Then I used a custom calculation script in the "textbox main" field like this:

event.value ="";

if (this.getField("cb").value=="cb1") {event.value = (this.getField("cb").isBoxChecked(0)) ? this.getField("name1").value : event.value=""; }

if (this.getField("cb").value=="cb2") {event.value = (this.getField("cb").isBoxChecked(1)) ? this.getField("name2").value : event.value=""; }

if (this.getField("cb").value=="cb3") {event.value = (this.getField("cb").isBoxChecked(2)) ? this.getField("name3").value : event.value=""; }

NOTE: This works for me but I am getting an error in the debugger console.I tried many different scripts but still end up getting this error:

1:Field:Calculate
SyntaxError: missing ; before statement

Hopefully someone can share additional insights about this error and point me in the right direction.

In the meanwhile you can use the script above and test it or modify it.

ezloves2smile · Answer

My apologies, this would be in Adobe DC - custom script sections? and or validate fields?

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