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Hi there,
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I am not very experienced with Javascript, and I am trying to create a function that will multiply two fields and place the result in a third field, within a Repeater area.
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So I have a working Repeater Area with data loaded from array M[Name] and M[Price]. The other fields are M[Qty] (entered by the user) and M[LineTotal] (which I want to calculate). Field names in the repeater are:
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M[{var:area_repeater1.key}][Name]
M[{var:area_repeater1.key}][Price]
M[{var:area_repeater1.key}][Qty]
M[{var:area_repeater1.key}][LineTotal]
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When the user enters a Qty, I want the script to calculate a Line total by multiplying Price and Qty.
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So I created a JS function like
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function linetotal() {

 var total = 0,
     linetotal = 0
     ; 
 jQuery('input[name^="M"]').each(function() {
   linetotal = $(this.Qty).val() * $(this.Price).val();

   jQuery($(this.LineTotal).val(linetotal));
   total += parseFloat($(this.LineTotal).val());
 });
 jQuery('input[name="total_field"]').val(total);
  
}

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I expect that my problem is in the syntax that references the array elements Qty and Price, but I can find no reference or example that shows how to do it.
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Any assistance greatly appreciated as always.
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Cheers
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Tim

If you console.dir the selections generated by jQuery('input[name^="M"]') I think you might find it's an array of every field starting with M. I think that might be the problem but dunno.

Thank you,
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Well I have tried many different ways ti do this now and searched a lot of sites, but nothing seems to work.
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I think the basic problem is still how to reference the array elements in JS. The array M exists in the "data" - I can see it in a debugger and it populates the Repeater fields named as indicated in the manual. I can execute a JS function on Change of the Qty field. If the field id wasn't an array I can use jQuery('#Qty').val() in JS. But how do I reference it when the field Id is Qty{var:area_repeater1.key} ?
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I think this is mainly my lack of JS experience. I am more familiar with PHP and so this is a fairly new area for me.
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Cheers
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Tim

jQuery('*[id^="M"] [name$="Qty]"]')

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Try that selector. Maybe. Note the extra square bracket.

Not much luck with that syntax I'm afraid.
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It is strange, this is the sort of process (Line Total = price * Quantity ) that I thought would be fairly straighforward CF6 functionality when a Repeater is used.
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I will keep searching for a solution. I can get around it for now by calculating the total in page 2 of a multipage form.
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Thanks for your help as always.
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Tim

Here's one way.
1) Give all your fields the ID of fieldname{var:area_repeater#} and leave the name as you have it already.
2) Have a custom html block, containing for example TOTAL: <span id = "grandtotal"></span>

jQuery("input[id^='qty']").change(function(event) {
   var index = this.id.substr(this.id.indexOf("qty") + 3);
   var qty =  parseInt(jQuery("#qty" + index).val());
   var price = parseInt(jQuery("#price" + index).val());
   jQuery("#total" + index).val((qty ? qty : 0) * (price ? price : 0));

   var sum = 0;
   jQuery("input[name*='total']").each(function() {
      linetotal = parseInt(jQuery(this).val());
      sum = sum + (linetotal ? linetotal : 0);
   });

   jQuery("#grandtotal").html("$" + sum);
});

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Just to be clear though, you should ONLY be using this to DISPLAY a total to the user. You should ABSOLUTELY 100% NOT USE THIS CALCULATED TOTAL to do anything with, like decide how much a customer owes. Because if they're clever, they can just edit the values to make the total price $0.
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You should instead calculate the total in the backend with PHP.

[file=11349]Repeater_04_Jan_2019_09_55_45.cf6bak[/file]

Wow.. thank you so much both for the solution and the demo form.
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A big job though, and one that obviously needed far more JS skills than I possess (I'm an old-school programmer, not a web developer) and even now I am not certain that I understand your code in every aspect.
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What this does suggest to me is that what I thought would be routine, obviously isn't, so in CF6 I am probably better to solve the problem in another way. Clearly the repeater collects the data well, and what is probably best is to use a popup "shopping cart" form to show the user the items they have selected and the total cost.
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Again many thanks for your support.
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Cheers
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Tim