How to make a pre-populated text field modifiable

[leew99138418]

Hello,

I am using this command to pull data into one field from another field

event.value=this.getField("Insurance Company").value;

But I want the user to also be able to modify what's in the field. In other words, I want the the pre-populated data to be a default that can be changed.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Lee

[ls_rbls]

This was taught to me here in the forums by Adobe MVP try67:

if  (event.source && event.source.name =="Insurance Company")  event.value = this.getField("Text32").value;

I recommended this in another thread yesterday to another another user but ACP  Thom Parker, who I also follow for guidance, suggested that  this is not always good idea.

I am learning Acroba JavaScript, and I still haven't run into an issue in which this method haven't delivered what I need to work for my forms.

[try67]

Replace "Text32" with "Insurance Company", of course, but it should work just fine... Not sure why it's not a good idea, though. An alternative is to do it via the validation script of the other field ("Insurance Company", in this case), like this:

if (event.value) this.getField("Text1").value = event.value;