How to manipulate radio button in XFA?

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I have raised a SO question and was suggested to raise the issue in this forum.

Basically, I have a XFA based PDF and I have to programmatically manipulate the fields in it.
I am using JAVA API.

I could manipulate text fields, but failed to do so for radio buttons.
In attached file, there is a radio button on page 2(Language for correspondence:). I am trying to select ‘English’ option, but I am not sure how to do it.

Thank you.

PS:
Also, I see a strange yellow box with a message in first page after manipulation:

image.png (21.4 KB)

What can be the cause?

CISA-declaration-dpetp-en_RAW.pdf (973 KB)

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We have opened the following new ticket(s) in our internal issue tracking system and will deliver their fixes according to the terms mentioned in Free Support Policies.

  Issue ID(s): PDFJAVA-42424

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Where can I check this ticket?

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@manishcg
We will keep you posted here on further updates and let you know when this issue will get resolved.

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Any update on this issue?

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@manishcg,

I haven’t worked on your ticket but I am retrieving the information from it for you.

This was fixed in: * Target version set to Aspose.PDF 23.3

This are the valuable comments from the dev that worked in the ticket:

To change the value of any field we should initially get the name of that field.

Here is a 2 ways to receive the fields’ names:

        String id = "CISA-declaration-dpetp-en_RAW";
        Document doc = new Document(dataDir+ id + ".pdf");
        com.aspose.pdf.facades.Form form1 = new com.aspose.pdf.facades.Form();
        form1.bindPdf(doc);

        //Get the structure of the fields
        String xfdf2 = dataDir + id + "-aspose.xfdf";

        FileOutputStream xfdfOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(xfdf2);
        form1.exportXfdf(xfdfOutputStream);
        xfdfOutputStream.close();

//or 
        XFA xfa = doc.getForm().get_xfa();

        //Get a list of fields
        String[] list = xfa.getFieldNames();

Note that we can handle a radio button by changing its exact element or the general radio button field setting number from 1 to 3.
The following example for English option. Uncomment any other of the below commented set_item methods to set the radio button option other than English:

String id = "CISA-declaration-dpetp-en_RAW";
        Document doc = new Document(dataDir+ id + ".pdf");
        XFA xfa = doc.getForm().get_xfa();

//        xfa.set_Item("form1[0].Angaben_Effektenhändler_SF[0].Sprache[0].DE[0]", "1");
        //or
//        xfa.set_Item("form1[0].Angaben_Effektenhändler_SF[0].Sprache[0].FR[0]", "2");
        //or
//        xfa.set_Item("form1[0].Angaben_Effektenhändler_SF[0].Sprache[0].EN[0]", "3");


//        xfa.set_Item("form1[0].Angaben_Effektenhändler_SF[0].Sprache[0]", "1");//GR
        //or
//        xfa.set_Item("form1[0].Angaben_Effektenhändler_SF[0].Sprache[0]", "2");//GR
        //or
        xfa.set_Item("form1[0].Angaben_Effektenhändler_SF[0].Sprache[0]", "3");//EN

        doc.save(dataDir+ id +"_out_23_3_EN.pdf");

I hope this information is helpful for you.