November 13th, 2009 | 
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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 !
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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?