Can Adobe LiveCycle do this?

Question

Hi
Could anyone help me, I'm trying to find out if I can use Adobe LiveCycle to create a form that allows the user to select options from 3 different drop down lists that will be located on the left side of the page. I would then like to display the results on the right hand side of the page, is this possible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Trev C.

Answer 1

Hi,
Yes, it should be very possible; I am just a bit unsure about what you mean by results (literal or representative).
There are two ways of dealing with dropdown lists: actual values, e.g. what you set as the drop down lists ("Section 1", "Section 2", "Section 3",...) and specified values in the bindings tab (0, 1, 2,...).
Because I think you want to represent the actual values of the three dropdown lists, it is probably best that you make sure that you do not have the "specify values" checked in the Object/Binding tab.This will ensure that any reference to the field will return the actual value that the user has selected.
If the results in the right hand side are just a combination of the three drop down lists, then the following FormCalc should do it:
$ = Concat(section, " ", item, " ", standard) //the space in the quotes could be replaced with your specific standard text...
"section" (etc.) being the names of your fields. You may need to fully resolve these depending on where they reside relative to $.
You should create a text field on the right hand side with the FormCalc in the calculate event.
Hope this works,
N.