Interactive pdf needs to filter out answers so they're not available in the next combobox. How?

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March 31, 2020
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I'm trying to create a interactive PDF with combo boxes. A lot of them.

The purpose of the document is this: I have lists with products, set within combo boxes. Per day, a client can select a product. When product A is selected for let's say monday, product A shouldn't be available in de combo box for thuesday. So I copy-pasted every combo box for every day of the week. But when an option is already selected for one day, it needs to be unavailable for the next day.

For example: every combo box has the exact same products. On monday a client wants to eat an omelette. He selects omelette in the combo box from monday. Thuesday, the client looks through the list within the combo box and the option omelette is no longer available because he already selected omelette on monday.

So I really want to prevent people from eating an omelette 3 times a week and force them to choose another option from that combo box.

Can someone help me? I've posted a similar message last week but got little response so I thought I'd try again.

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BobLevine

Community Expert

How are you planning on distributing this? How will it be filled out and returned?

This sounds like something better addressed via a form on a website.

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LotvdL1118Author

Participant

It's going to be used in a presentation for a new process which will be designed through a form on our website but we'll first need to present it. So it needs to work like we want it to act on a website..

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Legend

None of this stuff works on PDFs in web sites. Needs to be downloaded to a Mac or Windows computer and opened in Adobe products. Can’t recommend PDF for your task. Consider HTML forms, the way the industry is moving.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Don't be too ambitious with your Interactive PDF, experiment first before committing yourself. Remember (usually), you don't have any control over the kind of device and PDF reader the user might use.

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DBLjan

Legend

It depends, if the lunchlist items are multiple selectable.

If your client can eat omlet on monday AND fries AND steak, you can transform your list-box into individual radio-button-sets, which prevent any use of another day.