Stephen,thanks for taking the time to look at it.  You're right, I played with the captions and it worked for me too.  "Weird" is right!

Good stuff - thanks.Here's the link https://acrobat.com/#d=OFcwLKJjS0wJ4TumuiwrpQ to a simple test form that re-produces this problem. There are two exclusion groups. The one on the left works fine - the javascript method attached to the change event is able to get the caption text.  But the one on ...

I've created a simple form with radio buttons that reproduce this issue.  How can I attach/upload this PDF with a message on this forum?

The individual buttons all had the same value originally, but I changed them when I saw the little red plus sign indicating that there's a problem with the group.When I was having the problem with the captions, the values were all unique.  Thanks for the tip on copying/creating radio buttons.  I had...

Niall  - when I originally built the radio button group, the individual buttons were separate.  Designer didn't automatically put them all in the same group.  So, at that time I had to select them all and "wrap in new radio button group".   I couldn't get your solution to work on that radio button g...

Thanks Niall - i'll give that a try as a workaround.  Still, I would think that reading the caption of the selected radio button would be a simple task and figured I was just missing something, being new to this and all. So, kinda surprised someone hasn't hit me over the head with an obvious answer ...

I'm building a dynamic form using javascript in Adobe livecycle designer X.  I have a radio button group, optGroup, with several individual option buttons. Later in the form, I want to refer to the selection that the user made with the caption of that selected button in the option group.  I've tried...