Add 1 to a field on docReady

[Former Community Member]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how to add 1 to a field when a form is loaded? I have a field that I have set the default value to 0, but each time the form is loaded, I want to add 1 to that field, increasing the number by 1 each time the form is opened.

Thanks in advance for any insight!

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

The docReady event is the right one to go for, because you are guaranteed that this will only fire once.

Something like this should work for a numeric field:

this.rawValue += 1; 

Works here, provided the form is saved before it is closed again.

Niall

[Former Community Member]

Thanks for the reply Niall! It almost worked, I just had to change the += to =+ and it worked. Thanks again!

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

I am glad you have it working, but I am surprised += didn't work. It is the standard notation for addition and assignment. Never mind...

I was thinking afterwards that if you have a reset button, you would need to assign the value of the counter to a variable before the reset line, and then set the value of the counter back to the variable value after reset.

Niall