Adobe LiveCycle (Archived)

jcnka05 · 7/26/10

Hello, I'm brand spanking new to Adobe's Livecylce Designer and hope you guys can help me out with this conundrum. I've created a drop down list and was hoping to add conditional logic to it. In my drop down list, there's the option of choosing Yes or No and I wanted to have a text field displayed if the response is Yes. If No, then nothing would be displayed. Please help! Thank you.

Report · 7/27/10

You're welcome. If you would like a copy of the form, please send an email to stwalker.adobe@gmail.com.

Here are instructions to create the form.

1) if necessary, change the default form name to 'form1'

in the form Hierarchy click on the highest level object (the form root), press F2 and rename the object 'form1'

2) if necessary, change the default name of the page 1 sub-form from '(untitled Subform) (page 1)' to 'page1'

in the form Hierarchy click on '(untitled Subform) (page 1)', press F2 and rename the object 'page1'

3) drag a Drop-down List object onto the form

4) in the form Hierarchy click on the drop-down list, press F2 and rename the object 'dd'

5) drag a Text Field object onto the form

6) in the form Hierarchy click on the text field, press F2 and rename the object 'tf'

7) go to the text field Object properties (if Object properties are not visible go to the toolbar and click Window > Object)

on the Field tab go to the Presence drop-down and select 'Hidden (Exclude from Layout)'

8) go to the drop-down Object properties (if Object properties are not visible go to the toolbar and click Window > Object)

add List items to the drop-down by clicking the green plus sign and add the values 'Yes' and 'No'

9) click on the drop-down, either the visual representation or the drop-down object in the Hierarchy

10) go to the Script Editor (if the Script Editor is not visible go to the toolbar and click Window > Script Editor)

in the Script Editor 'Show' drop-down, change 'Events with Scripts' to 'exit'

with the Language set to 'JavaScript' and Run-at set to 'Client' add the script

if (this.rawValue == "Yes") {

form1.page1.tf.presence = "visible";

}

else {

form1.page1.tf.presence = "hidden";

}

11) save the form as a dynamic form

go to the toolbar, click File > Save As

give the form a File name

if necessary, change the 'Save as type:' to 'Adobe Dynamic XML Form (*.pdf)'

12) go to the form Preview (if Preview is not visible right-click on the Design View' tab and select 'Preview PDF')

13) test the drop-down

When you are done the form should (must) look like this...

Steve

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Report · 7/26/10

The attached will do it for you. See exit event on drop-down.

// form1.page1.dd::exit - (JavaScript, client)

if (this.rawValue == "Yes") {

form1.page1.tf.presence = "visible";

}

else {

form1.page1.tf.presence = "hidden";

}

Steve

jcnka05 · 7/27/10

Can you please dumb this process down for me? I tried to imitate the process but wasn't too successful. How was the text field created and how was it linked to the drop down response? I also tried to copy the pdf you sent me but wasn't too successful either. Thanks again!

Report · 7/27/10