Highlighting a drop down list field

[Former Community Member]

Dear All,



How can I highlight a drop down field. Its not working if I use xfa.host.setFocus() function. The problem is , I am having three drop down list(array, with same name), I need to choose one element from each drop down list, but I cannot choose same item which was already selected in other lists, If I select same I need give a alert and need to highlight the field. How can I get the selected index of a drop down list, like we have some selectedIndex in html. Any help regarding this is appreciated.



Thanks,

Nagesh

[Former Community Member]

There is an example in which similar to what you are looking for. I am not quite sure if this is exactly what you are looking for.



http://66.34.186.88/LiveCycleSamples/MultipleDropDownList/making3differentChoiceFromAList.pdf



In this example, user is required to choose 3 out of 4 available colors.

[Former Community Member]

Dear Jimmy,



Thank you for your reply. But this is not exactly what I am looking for. My problem is I want select unique name from the available drop down lists. At the time of form loading I am populating the data into drop down lists, each drop down list will have the same values, for example red,blue,purple all these values will available in three drop down lists. If I select red in one drop down list and select same in red in another list I need to alert the user to select different color. Any help regarding this is appreciated.



Thanks,

Nagesh

[Former Community Member]

On the 'change' event of the dropdownlist2, you can put something like this:



if ((xfa.event.newText) == DropDownList1.rawValue)

{

app.alert(xfa.event.newText + " has been selected.");

}



On the 3rd dropdownlist3, you can put something like this:



if ((xfa.event.newText == DropDownList1.rawValue) || (xfa.event.newText == DropDownList2.rawValue))

{

app.alert(xfa.event.newText + " has been selected.");

}