Use the exit event of the dropdown where the user is supposed to make an selection. Chapter_Officer.presence = this.isNull ? "hidden": "visible";   Btw. You cannot use objects names that begin with a digit, since this isn't allowed by XML standards. A SOM expression as Chapter_Officer.0.0 can't work...

There's a very cool solution by John Brickman to exchange data between XFA forms you might find interesting. https://web.archive.org/web/20160421044058/http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2010/07/shared_data_in_packages_part_2.html

Then the code mentioned above will do the trick. In case you don't want to overwrite the date once it has been set, wrap it into an if statement. Keep in mind the code is in FormCalc not JavaScript! if (other_field.isNull) then other_field = Num2Date(Date(), "MM/DD/YYYY") endif  

Don't do that, you might get trapped in an endless loop of alert windows and crash the PDF viewer or Designer then, since the layout ready event can execute very very often depending on the forms build quality. Use the JavaScript console instead.   form1::ready:layout - (JavaScript, client) console....

This can't be answered without seeing the actual form and the XML in question. There might be a scheme used for validating the XML, which can also mean, that certain elements are required.

What are you trying to achive with this exactly?

Hi, your script can’t work since you're overwriting existing variables with others. Use the resolveNodes() method with a predicate to filter just those rows, that contain the values in a range.  This can look like this: This sample assumes that the table is named „Table" and contains rows named „Det...

Since you've used the Action Builder to set the presence of sub22 and aub23, it would be the easiest to use it also to set the focus. It come with such an action already, you just have to add it to the existing actions.

The tab order you set up with designer is hard coded into the form template. Each field can have a <traversal> element which points to the another field the focus has to be set next. This traversal element is not bound to anything so it can't be controlled by a input value or so. In your case it can...

Here's a great example of doing this with scriptings. It not only displaying a defalut text for empty fields but also change the colors etc.  http://adobelivecycledesignercookbookbybr001.blogspot.com/2013/05/problem-ghost-text-is-common-way-of.html