Dynamic content selected by drop-down

[Former Community Member]

Is there any way to make a change the visibility of a Subform via a dropdown list? It seems so easy with radio buttons but when I try to apply some of the scripts (with modifcation) on drop-down's, it just doesn't work. It doesn't seem to cature the value of the dropdown when I change it, either in xfa.event.NewText or DropDownSel.rawValue. I have tried with both if statements and switch.



switch (xfa.event.newText) {

case "108":

Subform1.presence = "visible"

break;

default

Subform1.presence = "hidden"

break;

}



and



if (xfa.event.newText == "108") {

Subform1.presence = "visible";

}else{

Subform1.presence = "hidden";

}



I have tried to use it in Click, Exit, Change, almost all of the options available, but It doesn't want to change. Is it just something wrong with my logic or am I just way over my head in thinking that it should work the same way layers in html javascript do?

[Former Community Member]

I put the following code in the change event of a dropdown and it worked fine.



if (xfa.event.newText == "show") {

form1.mainform.thesubform.presence = "visible";

}else{

form1.mainform.thesubform.presence = "hidden";

}



Check the your referencing of the subform.

[Former Community Member]

Thanks, that worked like a charm. Had some problems at the beginning getting it to work, but I found out that I was saving the document as static pdf.

[Former Community Member]

I used the same code for my drop down..it gives me run time error and the application terminates. Please help

[Former Community Member]

This code is not working for me in a drop down list/....it works fine for a check box...what am I doing wrong??

[Former Community Member]

Have you tried re-saving the document as a dynamic pdf? It didn't work for me either, until I tried the save as.. option and selected dynamic pdf

[Former Community Member]

Yes, I am saving it as a dynamic pdf...