Drop down list text value in Livecycle Designer
Last week I had to get the chosen item from a drop down list in a PDF Livecycle Designer Form. Easy enough you should think.
But it did not work as I thought it would work.
As you would think the : $.rawValue would get you the item you want. But I did not want to have the item value but the text value.
If you put something like this into a drop down field.
1 : Amsterdam
2 : Rotterdam
3 : Den Haag
4 : Leiden
5 : Wolphaartdijk
6 : Goes
And you pick like number 3, with a $.rawValue you get 3 as the value back.
But I want “Den Haag” as a return value.
Simple you use $.formattedValue
And that will give you Den Haag !
Theo van der Sluijs (1975) is Software Development Manager at Bax-shop.nl. You can read more in dutch on his “Dutch Blog“, he also created Gebruikmaar.nl. He is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup and Goesweb.net.
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Thanks Theo. I had exactly that problem – and you saved me a lot of time…
Hi Theo,
I have a problem in the same category as your tutorial.
I’ve made an order form and in a Drop-Down List under “Object”->”Binding”->”Specify Item Values”, I have given each Text (product) a value.
Then in a numeric field the value is surpose to show up according to the Product the buyer has choosen from the Drop-Down List.
I did some research on the Web and I found this formcalc coding:
UnitPrice.rawValue = Description.rawValue;
Which I wrote under “change” for the Drop-Down List.
Now here’s my problem. The value only occures if I click twice on the same product in the Drop-Down List. I of course want the value to appear after just 1 click!
Do you have any clue what could be wrong with my form?
Cheers
Hello,
I’m having the same problem that Benja is having………………. Does anyone knows how to fix that?
You might have figured this out already but just incase if you are wondering how to find a specified value for an option in a drop down list then use "boundItem" method like this:
$.boundItem(xfa.event.newText);
How to dynamically block elements of the list?
Mike