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Topic: Re: Combining two fields (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Forms & FDF, Msg: 27824
From: prodok
Date: 10/1/2001 07:15 AM

Have another look at your script.

You define the variable "full" as the result of a concatenation. This
means, it is a string value.

Then you set the event.value to full.value. But as you have defined
the variable full as a value, it does not have a value property. It
IS the value.

So, you change the last line of your code to

event.value = full ;

and this should do it.

Another approach would be defining full as a field variable do the calculation

var full = this.getField("full") ;
full.value = fname.value + " " + lname.value ;

And that should do it as well.

Hope, this can help.


Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland

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>Thanks that is a good idea. I tried putting the folloing script into the
>"calculate" area of the full name field
>var fname = this.getField("First");
>
>var lname = this.getField("Last");
>
>var full = fname.value + " " + lname.value;
>
>event.value = full.value;
>
>However, this made the "full" field say "undefined". It just had the word
>"undefined" where the full name should have appeard. I tested this out
>doing acutally calculations and it works great! But with Strings it won't
>combine the fields.
>
>Is there something I could change in my script? Is there some other way I
>could go about this?
>