Just tested this under Acorobat Pro 8 and it worked fine.What  is different in 9 that causes it not to work?

Just tested this under Acorobat Pro 8 and it worked fine.What is different in 9 that causes it not to work?

I originally used XML but I don't want the end user to have to "import" an xml manually. I also don't want to have to set up any kind of ODBC in order to access excel or some other db.My goal is to create a fixed dropdown list that controls what gets loaded into my form. I'll have various text files...

Put it there now too. Hopefully I'll find some responses. Thanks

Trying  to get the importTextData routine to work has been very frustrating to  say the least.Previously  I  found my problem to be  the header row in the text file was not   formatted properly. ie. rather  than have "task" as the column header  it  had to be  frmProgressCard[0].frmTasks[0].tblTask...

That is where I orginally posted it. They told me to post it here...I am using LiveCycle ES

Trying to get the importTextData routine to work has been very frustrating to say the least.Previously I  found my problem to be  the header row in the text file was not  formatted properly. ie. rather  than have "task" as the column header it  had to be  frmProgressCard[0].frmTasks[0].tblTasks[0]....

My example was not very good. I  replaced it with a new (see attached).Previously I found my problem to be  the header row in the text file was not formatted properly. ie. rather  than have "task" as the column header it had to be  frmProgressCard[0].frmTasks[0].tblTasks[0].rowTask[0].task[0]That do...

I have been having a real issue trying to load data from text files (tab delimited text file) into my form.It works fine if I use importTextData() with no parameters and it prompts for the file name, then the row, but if I try and pass the path and row it comes back with a -2 result "User Cancelled ...

Thanks that really helps. I was stumped on this for 3 days!Now my next problem still with importTextData is that when I supply the path and row, it returns a resuls of -2 (User Cancelled Row Select).Is there anything different I need to do when indicating the path?My call looks like:var cPath = "/C/...