Drop Down Lists that connect with eachother

I'm trying to make a form in which I have the following fields:
To:
Company:
Email:
Fax:
Now I want to do a drop down list because I have several contacts, but I want it so that when I chose the person in the "To:" field, it will put the company, email and fax for that person in the rest of the fields. I put the details into drop down menus for the rest of the fields but I can't get it to relate joe shmoe to his email [email protected] and so on.
HELP!

Launch Designer and open your form. Once it comes up Click on the Windows menu and ensure the Scripting Editor is enabled. Below the toolbars but above the form display is a blank area that is the scripting editor. At the top of that area are dropdowns that allow you to pick events as well as scripting language and location. Click on the dropdown that you want to code. Make sure the language in the script editor is set to Javascript and it is set to run at Client. In the event dropdown, choose Change. In the blank area you can add your code. Note that the script editor will show you the code that is associated with the object that has focus.

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Hi,
I would recommend some posts from Stefan Cameron's blog:
http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/09/18/connecting-a-form-to-a-database/
http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/09/29/selecting-specific-database-records/
http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/12/18/databases-inserting-updating-and-deleting-records/
http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/12/07/better-form-design-with-xfa-25/
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OR even better stop the drop down list appearing altogether;

Take a look here:
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Hi Bruce,
This forum is specific to Designer, which comes with Acrobat Pro 9. It will be easier to create this type of functionality in Designer (compared to achieving it in Acrobat).
Designer creates XFA Forms, which are wrapped in a PDF. The user doesn't see any difference: eg they see a PDF which will open in Acrobat/Reader. However for user with Reader to be able to save the data they input, the form must be reader Enabled. This is a topic in itself and there are many discussions on the forums - just try a quick search.
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Lawanna Wice - 2:18pm Mar 15, 05 PST (#1 of 1)
I'm creating a form from scratch in Adobe Designer. Well, the problem I'm having is I'm trying to create dropdowns in my form and I need three dropdowns with the same information but I would like to only select three of the items from each dropdown but I'm not sure what I need to do. I hope you'll understand.
Ex: Directions: Please select your 1st, 2nd and 3rd peference from the listing but do not select the same perference, it has to be different.
1st Preference: RCC, UPPP, AAA and TO
2nd Preference: RCC, UPPP, AAA and TO
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The object is for them to select only three but not the same for each prefence but how can I create it in the form.

Lawanna,
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See:
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Is this possible?
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Hi,
You need to use event handler for this. Check if the below link gives some direction.
[http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/cda3992d-0e01-0010-90b2-c4e1f899ac01|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/cda3992d-0e01-0010-90b2-c4e1f899ac01]
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Yes it can.
there is a lot of documentation online and in various books about how to do this…

Error while populating drop down list with values from a database

Hi all,
I have a JSP page with a drop down list that is to be populated with values from a database.
This is the code in my JSP file:
     
         
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Thanks for the help in advance.
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Wrong usage of Iterator.

         
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            Iterator<Integer> iterator = floornumbers.iterator(); %>
         
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              <input type="hidden" name="action" value="floorselected"/> 
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                   <% while (iterator.hasNext()) {
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                        %>
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         </form>or make use of enhanced loop as you are already using J2SE 5.0+ for avoiding confusions.

         
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         </form>and a lot better thing would be making usage of basic Taglib provided with JSTL spec or struts spec which make life easier and simple.
something like usage of <c:forEach/> or <logic:iterate/> would be lot better without writing a single scriptlet code.
Hope that might help :)
REGARDS,
RaHuL

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