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Check for empty table row before adding date

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On the form below, when I click the green + button (far right), a new table row is created with today's date. the user can then enter more text to the right of the date. Problem is when the form is saved and reopened, the text the user enters is deleted and new today's date added because it is in the intialize event. How do I script to check and make sure each dated row is empty before adding today's date?

https://acrobat.com/#d=qTINfyoXA-U6cDxOGgcSEw

Thanks,

~Don

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Hi Don,

One option would be to use the caption area of the textfield for the date and leave the value portion free for the user to input their data:

if (xfa.resolveNode("this.caption.value.#text").value === "") {

          this.caption.value.text = util.printd("[mm/dd/yy] ", new Date() );

}

See here: https://acrobat.com/#d=VjJ-YsXLKmV6QU84JrAAIw.

Hope that helps,

Niall

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Hi Don,

One option would be to use the caption area of the textfield for the date and leave the value portion free for the user to input their data:

if (xfa.resolveNode("this.caption.value.#text").value === "") {

          this.caption.value.text = util.printd("[mm/dd/yy] ", new Date() );

}

See here: https://acrobat.com/#d=VjJ-YsXLKmV6QU84JrAAIw.

Hope that helps,

Niall

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Niall,

Your solution works great!

Is it also possible to use a text field to the left of this text field (in subform) so I can have the option of allowing the user to be able to change the date?

Thanks again!

~Don

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Hi Don,

Yes it would. You would just need to reference the textfield. Maybe get the script to populate the textfield on the button's click event rather than the textfield's initalize event. That way it will not get overridden when the form is reopened.

Niall

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Thanks for your help with this Niall.

~Don