Creating a form where what user fills as an answer appears in another question

[Eli22604583r70a]

I want to create a form in indesign, where let's say the first question is "Hello, what is your name?".

Under that they will use a text field filling their names, let's say "John".

And then the next question will auto-update itself to "Hello John! How are you?"

So kind of like if this was a script it would write "Hello $[NAME] how are you?"

I never wrote code or anything, this is just something I saw looking other places, I would much appreciate any help!

And this form needs to work offline. 

[BobLevine]

That cannot be done in InDesign. Check the Acrobat forum but honestly, this seems like overkill for a PDF form.

[Jean-Claude Tremblay · Accepted solution]

This can only and need to be done in Acrobat...
Add this to your second field as a custom calculation script.

var oName = this.getField("name").value ;
event.target.value = "Hello "+ oName + "! How are you?";

[Eli22604583r70a]

Thank you! Would it be possible to create an interactive pdf file in InDesign and then add these scripts Acrobat?

[Jean-Claude Tremblay]

Sure...