Percentage Calculations in Acrobat

[donnaj10533951]

Hello,
I have a form that has four fields that need to calculate a percentage. I am not sure how to get that work. Can anybody help? There are two fields for 401k 1 and two fields for 401k 2 I have attached a screen grab of my form to help make sense of what I am trying to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Just Shoot Me]

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Thank you.

[donnaj10533951]

Hello,

I have a form that has four fields that need to calculate a percentage. I am not sure how to get that work. Can anybody help? There are two fields for 401k 1 and two fields for 401k 2 I have attached a screen grab of my form to help make sense of what I am trying to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[try67]

Some more details will help us help you... What are the names of the fields? What exact calculations do you want to do with them?

[try67]

The most basic way of doing it is with the Simple Field Notation. Let's say you want Text2 to be 20% of Text1. You can use the following as the SFN forumla of the former:

Text1 * 0.2

For more advanced calculations, or more complex field names, a script might be needed.

[donnaj10533951]

The fields are named:

401k-1-Employee

401k-1-Employer

401k-2-Employee

401k-2-Employer

It seems that I would need a specific script (but not sure), here is what I think I want to have happen:

There are 13 fields that would be simple addition.

Then there are the percentage fields.

401k-1-Employee - contributes (unkown%) of (Salary, unknown) = a number that can be added to the total contributions.

Thanks!

[try67]

I'm sorry, I don't follow the calculation you want to perform. Do you mean that you want to show the relative part of each field from the total?

[ls_rbls]

I think the user is asking for a script to calculate a net amount taken from a gross salary or income (that is input in a separate field, not shown in the table) and then deduct a percentage from that amount only when the user enters a numeric value in the  401k-1 field, for example.

If I understood the question correctly this may be addressed with a custom keystroke script on each of the 401k-1 and 401k-2 fields. 

For exaemple, in my script below I created a field named "Salary"and format the field as Number with 2 decimal places and currency symbol.

Then on the 401k-1-Employee field I used a custom keystroke script:

// CUSTOM KEYSTROKE SCRIPT 401k-1 Employee field

var v = event.value/100;

event.value =  Number(util.printf("%.2f", (this.getField("Salary").value*v)/100));

Since the % deduction is unknown,  using a custom kestroke script allows the user to type in whatever number value in the 401k-1 Employee field  and it will display the total deduction in a Number format when the user hits enter or clicks outside of that field with the mouse pointer after the value is typed in.

This will allow to totalize that field as a Number value (not a string value) with the rest of the Annual/Monhtly Contributions listed in that table. 

donnaj  is this what you're inquiring about?

[donnaj10533951]

Yes, I think this is what I am asking. I will input your script and test it.

Thank you so much for your time. I will circle back to this conversation later.

[donnaj10533951]

Thank you all for your help. This script did not perform the function desired. My end user has decided not to pursue solving this problem. I appreciate all your efforts.

[ls_rbls]

You're welcome.