Survey skip logic in PDF form

app.alert isn't something to leave in your code (normally), but it is hugely useful in problem solving (debugging).

Every programmer, at every level, ends up asking themselves "why isn't this working? Everything looks right". This is where it is really useful to put out a message showing the value of important variables. If you'd added

app.alert("Value of depressionchecklist just before the if statement is " + depressionchecklist)

it would have showed you that the value wasn't what you expected. My code is often full of things like this as I try to chase down the causes of weird stuff.

Caution! It's easy to get stuck with the same message over and over, especially in things like calculation scripts that can be called over and over. No problem, just kill Acrobat with Task Manager or Activity Monitor. YOU WILL LOSE ANY CHANGES YOU DIDN'T SAVE !

Great question! I realized that it shouldn't be in the document level JavaScript at all... New to this

With all of your help, I got the whole thing working! This is what I did:

var depressionchecklist = this.getField("Q1").valueAsString + this.getField("Q2").valueAsString + this.getField("Q3").valueAsString;

var irritabilitychecklist = this.getField("Q6").valueAsString + this.getField("Q7").valueAsString + this.getField("Q8").valueAsString;

if ( depressionchecklist == "111" || irritabilitychecklist == "111" )

{this.pageNum = 20;}

else {this.pageNum = 21; }

I realized that adding strings was still an option, it just needed to check for "111" instead of 3.

Might be a sketchy solution, but quick nonetheless.

I didn't do the app.alert... not sure how that works - would it have made the code cleaner?

Thanks again!

Hmm, and why is this in document level JavaScript, which is run only once, when the file is first opened, and before the user fills in the form...?

Add an app.alert to report the value of depressionchecklist. This is the basic route to solving problems in code - see that the values are what you expect.

So I'm throwing out the OR statement for now to simplify things, and this is what I'm trying:

Document Level JS

var depressionchecklist = Number(this.getField("Q1").value) + Number(this.getField("Q2").value) + Number(this.getField("Q3").value);

Button JS (on page 20)

if ( depressionchecklist == 3 ) {

this.pageNum = this.pageNum = 20;}

else {this.pageNum = 21; }

This doesn't seem to work, as the button defaults to the else statement even if Q1, Q2, and Q3 are all answered yes.

Remember, the value of each question is a 0 (for no) and a 1 (for yes), however I assigned these myself and I'm sure they are strings, because I could have called them "Choice one" and "Choice two".

I seem to be going in circles here...

This

var depressionchecklist = this.getField("Q1"+"Q2"+"Q3").valueAsString;

gets the value of a single field called "Q1Q2Q3".

I'm guessing that isn't what you want: you're probably trying to take a shortcut but you do need to get each field separately.