Required Fields in PDF Fillable Forms

[Terri5FDF]

I'm creating a pdf fillable form, and I need to ask yes/no questions.  I want to make each question required, but the person would have to check either yes or no.  How do I do that?  

[try67]

Define what you mean by "required". What should happen if they don't answer it?

[Terri5FDF]

Hi. Thanks for replying.  I have a set of yes or no questions.  The questions are required, so for each, they would have to check either yes or no.  I know I can make fields required, but I need to make either yes, or no, required.  I also have some questions, where if they check one box, then they'd have to answer another, so a field would only be required if they said yes to a previous answer.  I hope that makes sense.  Thanks again.

[try67]

That doesn't really answer my question... OK, so you made the fields required, but the user still didn't fill them in.

What should happen? Is the file being submitted back to you? Printed? Just saved?

[Thom Parker]

To handle the bare "required" bit, give the yes/no pair of checkbox fields the same name, but make the export value for each "Yes" or "No" as appropiate.  The default state for both needs to be "Off".  The default value is how Acrobat determines whether or not the field has been filled.

Now, Try67 has an important point. What exactly do you want to happen if the user doesn't fill the required fields? The default action is to block form submission. Did you need something else to happen.