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Exclude Negative Numbers?

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Is there a way to exclude negative numbers from appearing in numerical (currency) fields?

For instance, if a user were to attempt to enter a negative number in a given field, is there a way to instruct Adobe to erase the entry, or better yet, to prevent the user from doing so?

Thanking you in advance.

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Employee

Hi Susan,

If you are using LC Designer, please use the following script on the exit event of the numeric field in the script editor box

 

if(NumericField1.rawValue<0)

{

NumericField1.rawValue="";

xfa.host.messageBox("Please Enter the positive value");

xfa.host.setFocus(NumericField1);

}

Let me know if that works,

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Employee

Hi Susan,

If you are using LC Designer, please use the following script on the exit event of the numeric field in the script editor box

 

if(NumericField1.rawValue<0)

{

NumericField1.rawValue="";

xfa.host.messageBox("Please Enter the positive value");

xfa.host.setFocus(NumericField1);

}

Let me know if that works,

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Would I be able to possibly use similar function to ignore a drop down field that contains N/A?  Have 8 dropdowns that cotain "N/a, 1, 2, 3" and are all averaged out at the end but need N/A to be ignored if chosen??

Thanks so much n advnace for any help

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Employee

Hi 41globalit,

Please look into the example 2 attached in the sample file

~Pranav

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This looks like exactly what I am looking for!! Will have to do some small tweaking I think to fit into my file!  Thanks so much!

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Level 2

Im not expert on coding.  What coding would I need to change?  All drop downs named DropDownList1, DropDownList2, DropDownList3, etc....

here is link to pdf if you'd like to view

http://41global.com/performeval.pdf

Thanks so much,

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Level 2

For example 2 in your pdf, what would be the script i'd need to get things to average instead of it doing sum total??