Trouble with carrying values over to other pages and calculating

Question

Hi folks - I have a calcuation I'm trying to do with five fields.  Three of the fields come from other pages in my PDF (there are 10 pages total).  When the first value gets carried over to my calculation, that number should show up in my 'Total' field but it isn't.  I think it's b/c the other two fields which get carried over from other locations in my PDF, if they haven't been entered into the form yet, are basically NULL.  Hence the calcuation doesn't work (just shows zero in my 'Total' field).  However, if values are placed into these other 2 fields in my PDF, the calucaltion and subsequent 'Total' works.  Not sure how to resolve this?  Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi GKaiseril,
Thanks for replying...no javascript errors.  Not sure how to determine the order, or where that is shown?
The first 2 fields get carried over, and added together as follows:
event.value = this.getField("Total endowment care fund corpus, reserves, and unexpended income").value + this.getField("Ending Balance, Cost Basis").value;
Then, once the 3rd field is carried over, I subtract it from the total of the previous 2 fields:
event.value = this.getField("Total trust funds corpus").value - this.getField("Cost Basis, Total Investments").value;
Here's the PDF in question, the calculations take place on page 10:  http://www.cfb.ca.gov/audits/2012ecfscf_report.pdf
These calculations don't work when just the first number is carried over....so say I enter in 20 into the first line of Schedule A on page 5 - that number gets carried over to Schedule F on page 10 line #1 just fine, but it doesn't show in line 5 (Difference).  However, the calcuations work perfectly once the next number (from Schedule D, page 8) gets placed into line 2 on page 10.....