Circle one or more selections in a form field

Hi,

See attached screenshot, is this what you need?

BR,

Paul Butenko

Hi, your sample is queued so I'll ask a few questions:

Do you need checkboxes, or do you want simple text entries that a user can click on?

It sounds like you want to allow multiple entries to be selected at the same time (checkbox-style, not radiobutton-style), correct?

Will you require that the selected state is saved in data, or is this purely a visual thing that will be saved/printed?

I'm sorry I don't quite know how to make my sample show up. On my form, I have a group of items lets say Blue, Yellow, Red, Brown, Tan etc. I want the user to simply circle or oval one or more of those items. The original form mine is based on did not have a check-mark, a bullet or an "X" by each item which should have made the selection easy and I cannot change the design at this stage. Well, I have the sample here but I don't know if it is going to show up.

See attached sample form.  It's a very simple setup; the circle (oval) overlays a textfield and the circle presence is toggled when the textfield is clicked via some javascript.  The text that's displayed is set in the Default property of the textfield. You can just duplicate the "Item" subform and change the text for each one.

You didn't tell me how this form is being used so this may not be 100% of what you need.  For example, the state of the circle is not bound to any data, and the circles are cleared whenever the form is first opened.  If you're just looking for a visual form that will be printed this is fine; otherwise you'll need to modify it a bit.

Thanks for helping out on this. The user will open this form in Reader and simply type in all the other text fields. Then comes these troublesome data that are a group of static items in the form. The circle or oval will be in a field/circle box/button - something - that overlays each of those items that when clicked, puts a circle/oval around the item. Clicking the same field/circle box/button again should turn off the circle/oval and so on; a toggle of some sort. When the field/circle box/button is clicked on and a circle/oval is put around an item, it should be permanent just as the other info the user has typed in and the whole thing will be saved. The filled form will be printed at a later date.

I am very new at this and so, writing a javascript is well beyond my capabilities at this point. The javascript you put together didn't make it through. The pdf file opened with only "Brown" in the entire page. If you need any further clearification, please let me know. Thanks.

Kevin,

I'm trying to do the exact same thing on an existing work order so our office can go paperless.  I have the scanned work order and added fill in the blank fields but some of the choices on the work order need to be circled.  It sounds like a simple toggle button will work.  Your Brown circle sample is what I want to do. I have no scrip experience.  Can you please help?

Thanks

Hello:

Because I have no script experience, I could not create a button to get this done and I could not get Adobe people to help me out. Ultimately, I shelved the project for now. It is however near the top of my "to do list" and in the next few weeks I am going to do this one way or the other. I'll keep you informed, if you're still interested.

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:58:09 -0600

From: forums@adobe.com

To: charlesigie@hotmail.com

Subject: Circle one or more selections in a form field

Kevin,

I'm trying to do the exact same thing on an existing work order so our office can go paperless. I have the scanned work order and added fill in the blank fields but some of the choices on the work order need to be circled. It sounds like a simple toggle button will work. Your Brown circle sample is what I want to do. I have no scrip experience. Can you please help?

Thanks

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This is an older thread but I found it useful for applying it to a form I have that required words to be circled (rather than checked off). But I'm having a little trouble with it and am hoping someone could troubleshoot it for me.

It seems like I can only get one subform to work at a time. If, in Adobe (Pro or Reader), the user clicks any of the choices in one subform, it seems like it disables the clicking in the other subform. I will link to the form I have created so you can see what I mean:

https://acrobat.com/#d=9c6N8sKIAuTVVDs3k8kqZA

What I need is to be able to click to circle a selection in the first line (subform1), then click to circle a selection in the second line (subform2).

Thanks in advance for any help!

Jo