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Get current field name in to change display option?

I've looked all afternoon to try and find this one. Basically, I want get the name of the current text field and change the display value to noPrint if the text field value is "--". I'm running this as a validation script in a PDF. Any help is much appreciated!

if(event.value == '--') 
{
    event.target.name.display = event.target.name.display.noPrint;
} else 
{
    event.target.name.display = event.target.name.display.visible;
}
Solution

  • You have a couple of things a bit off.

    event.value doesn't exist (you can check the available event properties)

    If you want to get the value of the element that triggered the event you can do:

    var elemValue = event.target.value;

    If you want to get the name for the same element you can do:

    var elemName = event.target.name;

    To hide the element from printing, you can see this answer.