Re: How to flatten a completed form after submit?
Sorry, I was thinking sharing this would be helpful in this thread. Thank you for your suggestion as I can see how this will work.
View Articlecopying form field entries
When using Adobe XI (non pro), can you link together multiple for fields on diffenerent pages of the same document? For example, I have a multiple page contract that I print out and needs to have the...
View ArticleRe: copying form field entries
Yes but it will require custom JavaScript because character strings cannot be summed. You need to create the fields on page one and then another field on page 2 with a different name and set to read...
View ArticleCreating a new response file for old distributed form
I have a form I distributed several months ago. My hard drive crashed and I can't seem to recover the response file. I selected for acrobat.com to receive the responses and it worked great. I'm...
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I did find the form under Acrobat.com Workspaces. But still can't find how to access the responses...
View ArticleBMI category
I have a field that calculates a person's BMI. Next to that I want to place field "BMI Category" to use "BMI" info and categorize as - Normal if < or = 24.9- Overweight if 25 - 29.9- Obese if 30 -...
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Use something like this as the custom calculation script of "BMI Category": var bmi = Number(this.getField("BMI").value);if (bmi<=24.9) event.value = "Normal";else if (bmi<=29.9) event.value =...
View ArticleRe: If Else Statement in Validation of Other Field's Values
Use this script as the custom calculation script for the "Total" field. This script assumes there are 2 fields, "Remaining Balance" and "Total": var b = getField("Remaining Balance").value; if...
View ArticleError message ArgumentError: Invalid character length everytime I try to...
Spent a whole day on the phone to Adobe 'experts' on Friday and still having the same error message. No one can explain why I can't upload my forms to FormsCentral. They even looked at my form and...
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It seems (empirically) that the maximum allowable character limit for a field is 10,000.
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Thank you George. In 14 simple words you have managed to answer the question that 6 chat room 'experts' and 3 phone 'experts' at Adobe were not able to help me with. By process of elimination I had...
View ArticleRe: If Else Statement in Validation of Other Field's Values
There are two problems with your code:1. In a Calculation script one should apply the new value using event.value, not by using the getField method.2. You should convert the value of "Remaining...
View ArticleDoes Adobe Acrobat professional 9 support mouse over text boxes?
Ah the title says, im wondering if Acrobat 9 supports this feature? where i hover over a text or image, and a box with even more text then pops up.
View ArticleRe: How can a field be formatted to limit the specific characters it accepts.
This works but I had to remove the returns so the script was one continuous line. And I had to add an xtra } at the end The simpleist: event.rc = event.value == "" |event.value == "M" || event.value ==...
View ArticleRe: How can a field be formatted to limit the specific characters it accepts.
If you want to restrict the user to only the letters 'M', 'Q', or 'X', then you could use a combobox with those values. Alternately, adding this to the custom keystroke script for your text field would...
View ArticleRe: How can a field be formatted to limit the specific characters it accepts.
You could even use a custom keystroke for a text field to only accept certain letters or even combination of letters. Line returns should not cause a problem unless you are cutting and pasting, and the...
View ArticleRe: Does Adobe Acrobat professional 9 support mouse over text boxes?
Click on Properties > click tab for actions see if Mouse over is shown if there click on it then choose from list of actions desired action
View ArticleRe: Does Adobe Acrobat professional 9 support mouse over text boxes?
If you're talking about an image on the page itself then you have to set the 'ALT' text, ideally in the application that created the PDF in the first place though it's possible to insert it afterwards...
View ArticleRe: Error message ArgumentError: Invalid character length everytime I try to...
You ran in to typical help you will receive Adobe help and Chat. All help except for these User to User Forums, are Manned solely by, Farmed out Foreign workers that barely have any Grasp of of...
View ArticleRe: If Else Statement in Validation of Other Field's Values
Thank you very much for your response. I copied/pasted the code, but it is not working in my document. Any suggestions?
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