Changing character in a field to uppercase.

Question

Hi all,
Got a form wherein the form data get populated with xml via a webservice. The data is send in lowercase, I need to change the characters in one specific field to uppercase.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Chris Fourie

Answer 1

To change the text when inputted you can use the following custom keystroke script:
// convert each entered character to upper case
event.change = event.change.toUpperCase();
To change the text to upper case upon exit from the form field, one can use the following custom format script:
// convert entered text string to upper case
event.value = event.value.toUpperCase();
One could also create a document level script function to convert any passed string to upper case:
function Upper(cString) {
// convert passed string to upper case
return cStirng.toUpperCase();
} // end function
The custom keystroke code becomes:
// convert each entered character to upper case
event.change = Upper(event.change);
The custom format becomes
// convert entered text string to upper case
event.value = Upper(event.value);
And the function can be called within any script in the PDF to covert a string to upper case.