Logic help

[jayaime]

Any help or direction for further assistance will be highly appreciated.

I have an issue and don't know how to solve it:

I have a form that allows users to input their action items that they need to take care of for the upcoming month in several textboxes.
Once they hit save, it adds these action items to a log form with:
a radio button to select "open" or "closed - considered the status title
a text box for due date - considered the DUE Date of the action items
another text box for closed date - considered Closed date of the action items

We set the Status to automatically check "open" when saved
and we also set the due date to be set automatically as the current date + 30 days.

Problem with this:
what is happening now, there are times not all text boxes have action items so when the user clicks save, it automatically checks the status as "open" and places a due date when THE TEXT BOXES HAVE NO ACTION ITEM.

Now, some users are not leaving the box blank and instead puts:
"N/A", "No Action item to report", "None" etc....

Question:
How can I have the log not except dates or select a status option when there are no action item to report?
I need a logic to place in the code, but for the life of me I don't see how to do this.

[ukgeoff]

You just need script to action when the form is submitted that checks the boxes for being empty or containing certain strings such as n/a and where that's the case, take no default action.

[jayaime]

Thanks for the info, I thought of the same thing,
but I'd like to write the if then statement but don't know how to write it to "take no action"

example:

If boxes are "blank or contains "N/A" then take no action
else
display status and date


What I'd like the If statement to do is:
if boxes are blank or contains n/a then do not display those boxes, date and status
else
display them

How do I write this in javascript or vbscript?

Thanks for your help.

[ukgeoff]

Make use of the css attribute 'display: none'.

Without knowing exactly how your pages relate to each other and the code used, I can only give you an idea to work with.

Assume each box has been given an 'id', then as you check a particular boxes content, when you find it is one you do not wish to display, use the following bit of script:

document.getElementById('boxID').style.display = 'none';

[jayaime]

Thanks again. I'll try that.