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Drop down menu item event

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Can a drop down menu item, when selected, trigger an event such as another field becoming visible?

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Yes, you can use the value of the dropdown field to hide, unhide, etc.  Something like this.  If you have the Action Builder it will build it for you.

if

($.boundItem(xfa.event.newText) == "Three") {

this.resolveNode("TextField3").presence

= "visible";

}

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Yes, you can use the value of the dropdown field to hide, unhide, etc.  Something like this.  If you have the Action Builder it will build it for you.

if

($.boundItem(xfa.event.newText) == "Three") {

this.resolveNode("TextField3").presence

= "visible";

}

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