I need some help to make a text field mandatory if a check box has been ticked, I keep getting a SyntaxError: missing ; before statement 3: at line 4

[Former Community Member]

if(this.rawValue =='Yes')
{
app.016Description0.mandatory = "error";

app.017EASAReference0.mandatory = "error";

app.018ComplianceStatement0.mandatory = "error";

app.019SupportingDocs0.mandatory = "error"

app.016Description0.mandatory.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

app.017EASAReference0.mandatory.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

app.018ComplianceStatement0.mandatory.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

app.019SupportingDocs0.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

}
else{

app.016Description0.mandatory = "disabled";

app.017EASAReference0.mandatory = "disabled";

app.018ComplianceStatement0.mandatory = "disabled";

app.019SupportingDocs0.mandatory = "disabled";

app.016Description0.mandatory.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

app.017EASAReference0.mandatory.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

app.018ComplianceStatement0.mandatory.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

app.019SupportingDocs0.border.edge.color.value = "225,0,0";

}

[try67]

From your code I'm assuming you have an LCD form, so I'm moving this thread to the relevant forum.

[_Bruce_Robertson · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There are a few differences in the allowable names for an XFA field and for a JavaScript object and having a full stop in a name is one of them.  In JavaScript you would have to reference the field as a property of it's parent so if the field app.016Description0 has a parent Page1 then you could use Page1["app.016Description0"].

But I would rename your XFA fields.

Regards

Bruce

[Former Community Member]

Many thanks Bruce, after some experimenting I think I've cracked it