Script Character Limitation

[RonShahar]

I wrote a small script to use two drop down list boxes and a text box to give answers depending on the choices from the 2 listboxes. There are 1250 combination of "else if". However, when I cut and paste the info into the small red box (script) it will only let me input a certain number of characters.

Is there a way to increase that? Or can I have more then one script linked? I am new to both programming and RoboHelp and any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Ron

[MergeThis]

I think you'd be better off keeping the script inside an external .js file, which you can then link to from any topic you want.


Good luck,
Leon

[RonShahar]

Thank You very much.

This might sound foolish, but I might have over estimated my programming knowledge. I am very new to programming and my role here at my company. My IT dept wrote a simple script to reference the 2 list boxes and depending on the results display that in the text box. They do not know how to create and call a .js file.

How do I code the script to reference the .js file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the script I have that is currently inside the red box in RoboHelp:

function FindOut()
{
var L1 = document.getElementById("s1");
var L2 = document.getElementById("s2");
var TA1 = document.getElementById("t1");

var str1 = "";
var str2 = "";
var str3 = "";

if ( L1.selectedIndex >= 0 && L2.selectedIndex >= 0 )
{
str1 = L1.options[L1.selectedIndex].text;
str2 = L2.options[L2.selectedIndex].text;

if ( str1 == "Individual" && str2 == "Individual")
str3 = "Both I"

else if ( str1 == "Individual" && str2 == "Corporate")
str3 = "I and C"

else
str3 = "The Common Answer for 95% of cases";

TA1.value = str3;
}
}

[MergeThis]

You just place all that JavaScript into a MyExternalJavaScriptFile.js and then insert something like this into your .htm file. The sample shows a relative link as if that file were two directory levels above the current file that's calling for it. Adjust the directory/filename according to your needs.

Good luck,
Leon