Calculating in Designer?

[JaysunB]

Greetings mates! This is my first post to this wonderful site and I would like to express thank anyone who takes thier time to respond to my questions.

I am creating a form in Adobe Designer. I have several numeric fields and wish to have the end field calculate the total from maybe 4 or 5 fields. How do I do this? I have read about AcroJavaScripting but have no idea where to start, where to look and my local bookstores do not offer any media on this subject. These bookstores include Borders, Books-a-Million and Barnes & Noble. I know! They do not stock them and if I order one I have to buy it regardless of whether it helps me. I know I could use VB but I do not know it.

If someone could give me an example of how I label the fields, the script that I use for 2 fields to total to another I can figure the rest out. Thank a ton!

JB

 

[JaysunB]

Ok. I figured out my problem was that I was working inside Designer first and trying to edit my form in Professional after the fact. Apparently Designer locks the design when saved.

I have the required numeric fields calculating like I want. My new problem is this:

I have two selections. A & B. Either not both are to be calculated with the required fields.

A & B are radio buttons.

Let's assume A is selected. Once A is selected the user is presented with several other choices set up as check boxes. For instance selection A has 4 checkbox options...2 required and 2 optional. I want the form to total what the user checks to include. So if the user selects radio A & then checkboxes 1, 2 & 4 I want only those checkboxed totals to calculate with the required fields.

That sounds really complicated. So basically I want the user to input which numeric fields are calculated with a radio button and check boxes.

Can this be done and how?