JavaScript Acrobat 10 IF Statement with 2 conditions

Question

I'm creating an ordering form for a photograph printing business with Adobe Acrobat 10. The concept is that the user will input data for each photograph individually - file name, paper size and paper type into cells in a table and a fourth column will calculate the price.

The paper size and paper type are drop down menus, Paper Size with 4 Options and Paper Type having 3 Options, so 12 combinations all with different prices.

I want a cell in the fourth column of each row to calculate the price based on the options the user has selected, but cannot reach this using addition/multiplication etc.

I have the concept that i need to write an IF statement with multiple conditions as in Excel but am not familiar with JavaScript and so need some help!

Thank you in advance!

`&&` means "and" and `||` means "or" – Pointy Feb 12 '13 at 22:33 — Pointy, Feb 12 '13 at 22:33

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 12 '13 at 23:06

I'm not familiar with the excel format myself, but in javascript you might have something like this :

if(paperType==1 && paperSize==1) {
    price = 13;
} else if(paperType==1 && paperSize==2) {
    price = 16;
} else if(paperType==2 && paperSize==1){
    price = 12;
} else {
    price = 27;
}

Of course there are many ways of dealing with this problem, from nesting the if statements to storing everything in a map/hash/object to using switch statements. Comparison naturally doesn't need to be against numbers, you could also use strings.

solved it with this one, works great. Thanks very much David McMullin! — Tom Stayte, Feb 13 '13 at 14:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

Make it an object and use it as a lookup-table to prevent too many if-else-statements:

var priceByPapersizeAndPapertype = {
    "A4": {
        "thick": 8.00,
        "medium": 13.50,
        "thin": …
    },
    "A5": {
         …
    },
    …
};

var size, type = …; // from form input
var price = priceByPapersizeAndPapertype[size][type];

If the user could enter invalid input, you can check for existance of the key with if (size in priceByPapersizeAndPapertype) and put an error message if needed.

JavaScript Acrobat 10 IF Statement with 2 conditions

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