How do you make a drop down menu item prompt a user to fill out specific sections of your form?

[alainas39380096]

I am making a universal form for multiple scenarios and looking to have the user prompted to only fill out specific sections of the form based on which drop down item they choose. Is there a way to do this? Maybe they highlight after selecting the desired menu item? Thanks!

[try67]

You can set fields as read-only based on the selection in the drop-down.

Here's a simple example, which you can use as the custom Validation script of the drop-down field:

// Set fields as read-only or as editable based on the selection
this.getField("Text1").readonly = (event.value=="Option 1");
this.getField("Text2").readonly = (event.value=="Option 1");
this.getField("Text3").readonly = (event.value=="Option 1");
this.getField("Text4").readonly = (event.value=="Option 2");
this.getField("Text5").readonly = (event.value=="Option 2");
this.getField("Text6").readonly = (event.value=="Option 3");

// Reset the disabled fields
if (event.value!="Option 1") this.resetForm(["Text1", "Text2", "Text3"]);
if (event.value!="Option 2") this.resetForm(["Text4", "Text5"]);
if (event.value!="Option 3") this.resetForm(["Text6"]);

[Thom Parker]

You can also hide and show fields,

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Hiding-and-Showing-Form-Fields.cfm

[ls_rbls]

++ Adding to the discussion,

To prompt a user when an particular item  is selected from a dropdown menu list, you can use a custom keystroke script to trigger an alert message when that particular item is selected form the list.

For example, I created a dropdown menu with three items, and I named them "item1", "item2", and "item3".

You can use a cutom keystroke script like shown below to show a message alert to the user when "item1" is selected:

if (event.willCommit) {

if (event.value == "test1")

app.alert("Please select Option 1 of block B in Page", 3);

}