Form Field Appear on Value Entered

I am running Coldfusion 9 and building a website using Dreamweaver from CS5.
Is there a way to make a form field appear only if a certain value was entered into the previous form field? If so how? For example I am creating a registration page and one of the form fields is "Property Type" where the user can choose from "Residential, Commercial, Other" from a drop down menu and if the user chooses "Commercial" I want an additional field to pop up for the user to enter a value in "Company Name"??? Thanks for your help

WolfShade,
My apologizes for posting this question in the wrong forum. Since I have already started the discussion here I will ask you my question here still. I put in the lines of code you suggested however when I go to the drop down list and select "Commercial" no text input box appears for the Company Name field. If you have a min I will post my code below. Your help is very much appreciated. I should let you know I also tried adding the on change to the actual option tag for commerical i.e <option onChange...>Commercial</option> and still did not appear. I put the work area in red text hope it helps.
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.username")>
<cfquery name="MM_search" datasource="Access">
    SELECT Logininfo.Username FROM Logininfo WHERE Logininfo.Username=<cfqueryparam value="#FORM.username#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_clob" maxlength="50">
</cfquery>
<cfif MM_search.RecordCount GTE 1>
    <cflocation url="taken.cfm?requsername=#FORM.username#" addtoken="no">
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</cfif>
<cfset CurrentPage=GetFileFromPath(GetBaseTemplatePath())>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.MM_InsertRecord") AND FORM.MM_InsertRecord EQ "customer">
<cfif IsDefined('form.propertytype') and len(form.propertytype) NEQ 0>
<cfset #CustomerTypeRefFullName#=form.propertytype/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.companyname') and len(form.companyname) NEQ 0>
<cfset #CompanyName#=form.companyname/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.salutation') and len(form.salutation) NEQ 0>
<cfset #Salutation#=form.salutation/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.firstname') and len(form.firstname) NEQ 0>
<cfset #FirstName#=form.firstname/>
</cfif>
    <cfif IsDefined('form.lastname') and len(form.lastname) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #LastName#=form.lastname/>
    </cfif>
<cfset Name=#FirstName#&''&#LastName#/>
<cfset BillAddressAddr1=#Salutation#&' '&#FirstName#&''&#LastName#/>
    <cfif IsDefined('form.streetaddress') and len(form.streetaddress) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #BillAddressAddr2#=form.streetaddress/>
</cfif>
    <cfif IsDefined('form.city') and len(form.city) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #BillAddressCity#=form.city/>
    </cfif>
    <cfif IsDefined('form.state') and len(form.state) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #BillAddressState#=form.state/>
    </cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.zipcode') and len(form.zipcode) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #BillAddressPostalCode#=form.zipcode/>
    </cfif>
<cfset Contact=#FirstName#&''&#LastName#/>
<cfif IsDefined('form.dayphone') and len(form.dayphone) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #Phone#=form.dayphone/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.eveningphone') and len(form.eveningphone) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #AltPhone#=form.eveningphone/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.email') and len(form.email) NEQ 0>
    <cfset #Email#=form.email/>
</cfif>
<cfquery datasource="QBs">
    INSERT INTO Customer (CustomerTypeRefFullName, CompanyName, Salutation, FirstName, LastName, Name, BillAddressAddr1, BillAddressAddr2, BillAddressCity, BillAddressState, BillAddressPostalCode, Contact, Phone, AltPhone, Email)
VALUES (
<cfqueryparam value="#CustomerTypeRefFullName#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#CompanyName#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#Salutation#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="15"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#FirstName#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#LastName#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#Name#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="50"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#BillAddressAddr1#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="50"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#BillAddressAddr2#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="50"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#BillAddressCity#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="50"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#BillAddressState#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="25"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#BillAddressPostalCode#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="13"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#Contact#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#Phone#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="15"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#AltPhone#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="15"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#Email#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_carchar" maxlength="75"/>
</cfquery>
<cfif IsDefined('form.firstname') and len(form.firstname) NEQ 0>
<cfset #FirstName#=form.firstname/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.lastname') and len(form.lastname) NEQ 0>
<cfset #LastName#=form.lastname/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.username') and len(form.username) NEQ 0>
<cfset #Username#=form.username/>
</cfif>
<cfif IsDefined('form.password') and len(form.password) NEQ 0>
<cfset #Password#=form.password/>
</cfif>
<cfquery datasource="Access">
INSERT INTO Logininfo (FirstName, LastName, Username, Password)
VALUES (
<cfqueryparam value="#FirstName#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#LastName#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#Username#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>,
<cfqueryparam value="#Password#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" maxlength="41"/>
</cfquery>
<cflocation url="login.cfm">
</cfif>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

<title>TS Landscaping LLC</title>

<link href="styles/Main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<script type="text/javascript">function showHideInput(ddValue,txtFld) {
if(toLowerCase(ddValue) == "commercial") {
     txtFld.style.display = '';
else {
     txtFld.style.display = 'none';
     txtFld.value = '';
</script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextField.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationPassword.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationSelect.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationConfirm.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextField.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationPassword.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationSelect.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationConfirm.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="Container">
<div id="header"><img src="Images/Website-Image.gif" width="393" height="217" alt="TS Landscaping Logo and Name of company"></div>
<div id="menu_bar1">
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
      <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="index.html">Home</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Item 1.1</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Item 1.2</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Item 1.3</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="about_us.html">About Us</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Services</a></li>
      <li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">User Account</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="login.cfm">Login</a></li>
          <li><a href="registration_page.cfm">Register</a></li>
          <li><a href="members_page.cfm">Customer Page</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li><a href="contact_us.html">Contact Us</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div id="Main">
    <div id="side_bar">Content for id "side_bar" Goes Here</div>
    <div id="main_body">
<h1>Welcome to our sign up Page!</h1>
<p>Please fill out the form below to register with out site and gain access to our members account page.</p>
<form name="customer" action="<cfoutput>#CurrentPage#</cfoutput>" method="POST" id="customer"><table width="auto" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td><label for="propertytype">
<div align="right">Property Type:</div>
</label></td>
    <td><select onChange="showHideInput(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'companyname');" name="propertytype" id="propertytype" accesskey="n" tabindex="02">
      <option selected>Residential</option>
      <option >Commercial</option>
      <option>Other</option>
    </select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="companyname">
<div align="right">Company Name:</div>
</label></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield11">
      <input type="text" name="companyname" id="companyname" accesskey="n" tabindex="03" style="display:none;">
</span></td>
   </tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="salutation">
      <div align="right">Salutation:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><select name="salutation" id="salutation" accesskey="n" tabindex="04">
      <option selected>Mr.</option>
      <option>Mrs.</option>
      <option>Ms.</option>
    </select></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="firstname">
      <div align="right">First Name:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield1">
      <input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" accesskey="n" tabindex="05" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="lastname">
      <div align="right">Last Name:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield2">
      <input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" accesskey="n" tabindex="10" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="streetaddress">
      <div align="right">Street Address
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield3">
      <input type="text" name="streetaddress" id="streetaddress" accesskey="n" tabindex="15" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="city">
      <div align="right">City:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield4">
      <input type="text" name="city" id="city" accesskey="n" tabindex="20" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="state">
      <div align="right">State:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield5">
      <input type="text" name="state" id="state" accesskey="n" tabindex="25" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="zipcode">
      <div align="right">Zipcode:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield6">
      <input type="text" name="zipcode" id="zipcode" accesskey="n" tabindex="30" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
    <tr>
    <td><label for="dayphone">
      <div align="right">Day Phone:</div>
    </label></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield8">
      <input type="text" name="dayphone" id="dayphone" accesskey="n" tabindex="31">
</span></td>
    </tr>
      <tr>
    <td><label for="eveningphone">
      <div align="right">Evening Phone:</div>
    </label></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield9">
      <input type="text" name="eveningphone" id="eveningphone" accesskey="n" tabindex="32">
</span></td>
    </tr>
      <tr>
    <td><label for="email">
      <div align="right">Email:</div>
    </label></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield10">
      <input type="text" name="email" id="email" accesskey="n" tabindex="33">
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
    </tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="username">
      <div align="right">Username:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprytextfield7">
      <input type="text" name="username" id="username" accesskey="n" tabindex="40" />
      <span class="textfieldRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="password">
      <div align="right">Password:
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="sprypassword1">
      <input type="password" name="password" id="password" accesskey="n" tabindex="45" />
      <span class="passwordRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><label for="passwordconfirm">
      <div align="right">Confirm Password
        </label>
      </div></td>
    <td><span id="spryconfirm1">
      <input type="password" name="passwordconfirm" id="passwordconfirm" accesskey="n" tabindex="50">
      <span class="confirmRequiredMsg">A value is required.</span><span class="confirmInvalidMsg">The values don't match.</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td colspan="2"><div align="center">
      <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Register" accesskey="n" tabindex="50" />
    </div></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="MM_InsertRecord" value="customer" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
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var sprytextfield2 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield2");
var sprytextfield3 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield3");
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var sprytextfield6 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield6");
var sprytextfield7 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield7");
var sprypassword1 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationPassword("sprypassword1");
var spryconfirm1 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationConfirm("spryconfirm1", "password");
var sprytextfield8 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield8", "none", {isRequired:false});
var sprytextfield9 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield9", "none", {isRequired:false});
var sprytextfield10 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield10");
var sprytextfield11 = new Spry.Widget.ValidationTextField("sprytextfield11", "none", {isRequired:false});
</script></div>
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    <p>© TS Landscaping LLC 2010</p>
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Another form has been designed called AssessRisk in which user is asked to confirm the Risk Level.
5. At this point, we use Script QPAC to print the values in the log.
1.2 Problem description
1. In the Point No. 6 of the workflow, the values are not printed in the log. A blank space is printed instead.
2. Initially, we embedded the schema in the form. But when values were not printed, we removed the schema. Even then it didnt work.
1.2.1 User QPAC Specifications
Properties of user QPAC used in Step 4 of the workflow
Mappings Tab: -
Input Variable --- No variable
Template URL ----- Form11.xdp
Output Variable ---- myform
Myform is a form-variable, which has template URL as Form11.xdp
1.2.2 Script QPAC
1.2.2.1 With XML Schema embedded
import com.adobe.workflow.pat.service.*;
System.out.println("----------- High Level Questions -----------");
System.out.println("--1- the RiskLevel is: " + patExecContext.getProcessDataStringValue("/process_data/myform/form-data/data/xdp/dataset s/data/RiskLevel/general/Risk_Level") + " @@@@@");
Note:- Here RiskLevel is the schema root of myform and Risk_Level is the schema variable mapped with textfield on the form
1.2.2.2 Without XML Schema embedded
System.out.println("--1.1- the RiskLevel is: " + patExecContext.getProcessDataStringValue("/process_data/myform/form-data/data/xdp/dataset s/data/fields/Risk_Level") + " @@@@@");
1.2.2.3 Conclusion
In both the cases, a blank value is printed. In both the cases, we get some output which is when we use
System.out.println("--1.1- the RiskLevel is: " + patExecContext.getProcessDataStringValue("/process_data/myform/form-data/data/xdp/dataset s/data ") + " @@@@@");
In this case all the values are printed with space in between.
This is the basic feature which has to be used while developing workflows.

Hi
You might want to try using VariableLogger, at:
http://www.avoka.com/avoka/qpac_library.shtml
It's a little more reliable than the script QPAC, especially if one of your xpath expressions is wrong.
Please note that embedding the schema makes no difference in how the data from the form is stored. What makes the difference is whether your fields are bound to specify schema elements, or whether they use the "normal" binding.
Howard

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www.sbrickey.com
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Once the fields were created in Acrobat, the file was saved as a Reader Extended PDF.
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Anoop9178 wrote:
Hi Alex,
Please refer to following forum post.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5765569#5765569
Regards,
Anoop
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