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Report · 10/28/09

Hi

I have urgent requirement where i need to prepopulate the list values in drop down list in the xdp.Here I am able to do prepopulate the value for Text

Box by assigning some value to the particular value in the sub process like location/@Title [Location] and "hsjkghsfkgh" [Expresion]. But i am failing in prepopulating the data for drop down list specially dont know how to specify the List values [Collection] in the expression.

I created a varaible of type list and sub type string and when i have expresion like "APPP" [only one value] , the data is prepopulating in the pdf.

Please help me out how we will specify list in the expresion ?.

Thanks

Praveen

Jasmin_Charbonn · 10/28/09

You need to populate a hidden field (just like you do with Title) with the values for your drop down. Something like a comma delimited list. Then on your xdp, look at the value of the hidden field and create a script that will parse the string and add the elements to the drop down.

Jasmin

Report · 10/29/09

Hi Jasmin,

Thanks for your reply.

FYI : I had not used any hidden value to prepopulate the data into TextField. ]

I am using setValue user activity to assign the value into the xfa form.

SetValue activity allows you specify value for particular field in the xfa form(Location).

Here my configuration :

Location : /process_data/xmlPrepareData/xdp/datasets/data/form1/TextField1 ( TextField1 is the name of the TextField in the pdf).

Expression : mmmmm

The above settings are working prettt much.

But I would like to prepopulate the data for drop-down list.

I created the sample pdf with drop-down list and am trying to prepopulate but I am getting first value of the list into the drop-down list.

Here my configuration :

Location : /process_data/xmlPrepareData/xdp/datasets/data/form1/DropDownList1

Expresion : /process_data/sampleOutput (Created sampleOutput variable as list(sub type -string).

Adding values as

Location : /process_data/sampleOutput[1] Expresion :"A"

Location : /process_data/sampleOutput[2] Expresion :"B"

Location : /process_data/sampleOutput[3] Expresion :"C"

Please let me know how can i write my list values in the expresion.

Thanks

Praveen.

Jasmin_Charbonn · 10/29/09

You cannot set the list value of a drop down using xPath.

What I'm suggesting is to set the value of a text field, just like you're doing. The value of that text field would contain a comma delimited list of the drop down values.

Then, whithin the form (OnFormReady or somehting), run a script that would read the value of that text field and parse the comma delimited string and populate the drop down value.

Jasmin

Garreth_Curran · 10/29/09

All the script is there ready for use as part of a custom object called 'Process Fields'.

Set the value of AWS_CHOICE on initialise to a comma delimited string and the drop-down AWS_ACTION will populate the elements.

In the sample attached you will see all the parts of the Process Fields object. You can delete what is not needed. I have set this.rawValue of AWS_CHOICE to "1,2,3,4,5" on initialise.