How can I know what kind of field is?

[Former Community Member]

Hi,



I have a function that receive a field, and depends of the kind of field (Text, numeric or date) is necesary execute a expecific script.



Is it possible ask to the field if it is a numeric, text or date field?



Thanks

[_SekharN_]

I have no straight answer for this situation... However you may achieve this using workaround methods using following two properties...



$.name or this.name gives you the name of the fields you gave at design time. So name those three fields they way you can easily identify their type with their name. And build you logic based on that.



You may also use $.className or this.className to get what kind of the field it is but not to the granularity to the level of your expectation.



I prefer the first one. Try that and let us know what you found.



Good luck,

SekharN

[Former Community Member]

http://www.adobe.com/support/products/enterprise/knowledgecenter/c4761.pdf



Chris

Adobe Enterprise Developer Support

[Former Community Member]

hi chris,



i've been looking at this tutorial. i found a sample in it, but i can't open it with the designer to see the code it uses, cause it is pw protected. this doesn't help me much ;-)



i've tryed to use className to get the fieldType but i only get 'field' back, which is not a help at all.



could you send the pw or eventually the code behind the sample?



and also, can i change the type at run time? i.e. from textEdit to numericEdit.



thanks, valerio

[Former Community Member]

Hi Valerio,



Maybe this will help you, it is a code snaptshot from my form, its identifies a field inside an if statement:



if (xfa.form.MyForm.pageSet.Page1.MyField.ui.oneOfChild.className =='textEdit')



Hope it helps.

[Former Community Member]

hi ruben,



thanks for answering. i've got this!

can i then change the type of a field via java script at run time?



if you have a solution, please let me know.



valerio

[Former Community Member]

Well, that's useless. I have no idea what the password is :(



Seems like you have the idea of how to check the field type in script. You can't change the field type programmatically though.



Chris

Adobe Enterprise Developer Support

[Former Community Member]

hi chris,



thanks for answering ... even though you bring bad news ;-(



i'll try something else to get what i want. it's always the same strategy anyway, isn't it ?



regards,



valerio.

[Former Community Member]

Valerio_Chiessi@adobeforums.com wrote:

> hi chris,

>

> thanks for answering ... even though you bring bad news ;-(

>

> i'll try something else to get what i want. it's always the same strategy anyway, isn't it ?

>

> regards,

>

> valerio.



Valerio,

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? I'm not sure why you would want to change the type of

field at runtime.



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