Help with centrally locating a script so it updates all fields?

Question

Hello,
At work we use a form I built that shows were each employee in assigned for the day.  We have some part-time personal and I've made it so that they show up in red where all normal employee's show up as black.  This works great, my issue is when a new employee is hired or a part-time goes full time I am having to go into each individual field and change this script.   There is 60 fields total so as you would imagine this takes a lot of time to update just one employee.   Below is a sample of the script I am using to designate if the name should be black (full-time) or red (part-time). 
Is there a way that I can point all fields to one location?  Then I would only have to update one field and it fix them all??
if (event.value=="BRACKETT" ||  event.value=="Deleted" ||
event.value=="P. BOWMAN" ||
event.value=="TALLENT" ||
event.value=="EDWARDS" ||
event.value=="MEJIA" ||event.value=="ROGERS" ||event.value=="LASKEY" ||
event.value=="HOUSER" ||
event.value=="BROOKS" ||
event.value=="GORDON") event.target.textColor = color.red;
else event.target.textColor = color.black;
Thank-you so much,
David

Answer 1

OK, remove all of the code from the document JavaScript and replace it with the code shown below. When you need to update the names in the dropdowns, set up a button and use the following as its Mouse Up script:
// Mouse Up script for a button
updateDropdowns();
You can hide the button and unhide it whenever you need to update, and then hide it again. You can also run that line of code from the interactive JavaScript console, but a button is a bit easier.
This way, you just have to add names and what color you want for each by editing the oEmpNames object code. When you're done editing the list of names, run the updateDropdowns routine and all of the dropdowns will be updated with the new list.
// All if the code below goes in a document JavaScript
// Create an object to associate an employee name with text color to user when selected in a dropdown
var oEmpNames = {
  "George Washington" : color.black,
  "Thomas Jefferson" : color.red,
  "Abraham Lincoln" : color.black,
  "Teddy Roosevelt" : color.black,
  "John Kennedy" : color.red,
  "Ronald Reagan" : color.black
// Validate script for dropdowns
function  validateEmpName() {
  event.target.textColor = oEmpNames[event.value];
// Function to update dropdowns with list of employee names
function updateDropdowns() {
  // Create an array of names to populate the dropdown items
  var aItems = [];
  for (var name in oEmpNames) {
  aItems.push(name);
  // Loop through the dropdowns and populate them with names in the array
  for (var i = 0; i < aDropdowns.length; i += 1) {
  getField(aDropdowns[i]).setItems(aItems);
// Create an array of dropdown names
var aDropdowns = [
"Dropdown1",
"Dropdown4922",
"Dropdown4923",
"Dropdown4924",
"Dropdown490",
"Dropdown482",
"Dropdown470",
"Dropdown4600",
"Dropdown491",
"Dropdown480",
"Dropdown471",
"Dropdown461",
"Dropdown492",
"Dropdown481",
"Dropdown472",
"Dropdown4620",
"Dropdown493",
"Dropdown483",
"Dropdown473",
"Dropdown463",
"Dropdown494",
"Dropdown48",
"Dropdown47",
"Dropdown460",
"Dropdown47011",
"Dropdown46011",
"Dropdown47211",
"Dropdown4621",
"Dropdown47311",
"Dropdown46311",
"Dropdown2",
"Dropdown4",
"Dropdown5",
"Dropdown11",
"Dropdown4925",
"Dropdown4926",
"Dropdown4927",
"Dropdown4901",
"Dropdown4821",
"Dropdown4701",
"Dropdown4601",
"Dropdown4911",
"Dropdown4801",
"Dropdown4711",
"Dropdown4611",
"Dropdown4921",
"Dropdown4811",
"Dropdown4721",
"Dropdown462",
"Dropdown4931",
"Dropdown4831",
"Dropdown4731",
"Dropdown4631",
"Dropdown4941",
"Dropdown4813",
"Dropdown4712",
"Dropdown46",
"Dropdown47019",
"Dropdown460116",
"Dropdown472129",
"Dropdown462186",
"Dropdown473115",
"Dropdown463158"