Answer dependant message box

[Former Community Member]

I am trying to add a message box when a user chooses the answer of "yes" from either a radio button or a drop down. For example, if the user chooses "no", I would like them to continue to fill out the form. If the user chooses "yes" I would like a message to pop up and state that they can't participate in the study based on their response.



Is this possible?

[Former Community Member]

Yes, it's possible. Have a look at the LCD Help under "messageBox method" (do a search of the index)

[Former Community Member]

Thank you. However, I am new to scripting in LCD and this doesn't seem to be working.



Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong? I want a message stating, "Sorry, you do not qualify for this study." to pop up when the radio button "yes" is clicked. The help states that I need to add this line:



$host.messageBox( STRING param1 [, STRING param2 [, INTEGER param3 [, INTEGER param4 ] ] ] )



So, I selected the "yes" radio button and typed this into the Script Editor:



$host.messageBox( STRING Sorry you do not qualify for this study param1 )



I removed the other parameters since the help states that they are optional. By the way, I placed this line of text after one that was already there:



----- form1.#subform[0].RadioButtonList.#field[0]::validate - (FormCalc, client) -------------------



When I check the PDF preview I get an error stating that the script failed (language is formcalc; context is xfa[0].form[0]form1[0].#subform[0].RadiobuttonList[0].#field[0])script=$host.messageBox(STRING Sorry you do not quality for this study param1) Error:syntax error near token 'Sorry' on line 1, column 30.



Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Sarah

[Former Community Member]

String is the type, you don't actually type the word string in your script. It should look like this:



$host.messageBox("Sorry you do not qualify for this study")



Also, you may want to put it on the click event instead of the validate event.



Chris

Adobe Enterprise Developer Support

[Former Community Member]

That did it. Thanks again for your help.

Sarah