what is wrong with my calculate script?

[sue_k]

I have a form within a document and can't figure out what is wrong.

The debugger error:

TypeError: getField(...) is null

10:Field:Calculate

TypeError: getField(...) is null

37:AcroForm:G.44:Calculate

TypeError: getField(...) is null

The (calculate) code in column 10 is:

(function () {

   // Get the field values, as numbers

   var A0 = +getField("A.0").value;

   var B0 = +getField("B.0").value;

   var C0 = +getField("C.0").value;

   var D0 = +getField("D.0").value;

   var E0 = +getField("E.0").value;

   var F0 = +getField("F.0").value;

   var G0 = +getField("G.0").value;

   var H0 = +getField("H.0").value;

   // Set this field’s value to the sum

   event.value = A0 + B0 + C0 + D0 + E0 + F0 + G0 + H0 ;

})()

There are 10 columns that add horizontally. (Column 9 is actually empty and not used, if that makes a difference)

And 44 rows that add vertically.

The error message multiples as I progress in the form/matrix, but regularly references the same "10" and "37", but the "G.44" is sometimes "M.44".

I keep staring and can't find the error.

[try67]

That error message means you're trying to access a field name which doesn't

exist.

[sue_k]

Thanks!

Finally found the two errors!

[gkaiseril]

There is a way to trap the field name of the problem field or fields by writing a function that takes as input the field name and returns the field object or a null object and if the field name supplied does not match with a field object it alerts the user to the error.

function GetField(cName) {

var oField = this. getField(cName);

if(oField == null) {

app.alert("Error accessing field named " + cName, 1, 0);

}

return oField;

} // end GetField function;

(function () {

// Get the field values, as numbers

   var oA0 = GetField("A.0");

   var oB0 = GetField("B.0");

   var oC0 = GetField("C.0");

   var oD0 = GetField("D.0");

   var oE0 = GetField("E.0");

   var oF0 = GetField("F.0");

   var oG0 = GetField("G.0");

   var oH0 = etField("H.0");

g

   // Set this field’s value to the sum

   event.value = +oA0.value + =oB0.value + oC0.value + +oD0.value + oE0.value + +oF0.value + +oG0.value + oH0.value ;

})()

I try to stay away from self defining functions until the form has been debugged since this type of function sometimes hides the full error message.

Also I probably would have written a defined function to sum a the values of an array of field names so I could reuse the function to sum any given series of field names.

[sue_k]

Thank you for your time on this!

So appreciate you all in the forums!