Adobe PDF, Actions or Options

[cruser01]

I am working on a form which requires a drop down box (combo box) which requires the user to pick one of the options in the box. I need the box to display an item (race, ie, white, black/african american etc) and then put a three digit code in the box.

Using the form tool I can get the box to display partially, but when they pick the option it doesn't display the code. Just the option they pick. There is only room for 3 characters so I need to figure out how to display the options but pass the three digit code to the box.

I am not a programmer, just trying to get a form to work.

Do you need the PDF to figure it out?

[Khalid Ali]

listboxes options have two parts to it,
1.value
2.text

the data that you can see in the drop down is text,what you can probably do is set the value for each text in 3 digits/letters and then upon selection look for the value from the listbox