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Hi all,
I have a fillable PDF form that has buttons at the top of every page for the user to duplicate the page in case more information needs to be entered. Here is the javascript I'm using, courtesy of George Johnson:
// Get a template object from an existing template
var t = getTemplate("myTemplate");
// Spawn the template on the page following this one, and rename the fields
t.spawn({nPage: pageNum + 1, bRename: true, bOverlay: false});
This works great, except when the user has already filled out page 1, then clicks the button to duplicate the page, the new page contains the information already filled in by the user on page 1. Is there a way to clear the fields when the page is duplicated? I am using Adobe X Pro. Thank you!!!

Update: I found this code:
var iPage = 0; // This is your page number, it is 0-based, so page 1 is 0
var sFields = new Array();// array of fields names that are found
for(var x=0;x<numFields;x++)
{var pg = getField(getNthFieldName(x)).page;if((typeof pg == 'number' && pg == iPage) || (typeof pg != 'number' && pg.indexOf(iPage) > -1))sFields[sFields.length] = getNthFieldName(x);}
if(sFields.length > 0)resetForm(sFields);
This code does work, but instead of blanking out the NEW page, it blanks out the original one. Preferably, the original page would retain the information and the new form would be cleared. I changed var iPage = 0 to var iPage = pageNum +1 and that seems to blank out the spawned page. Even when I press the button on the spawned page, the second spawned page is cleared.
I know very little about javascript so if anyone sees any problems with this code or the change I made, I'd appreciate if you give me a shout. Otherwise I guess I resolved this on my own. Thanks!

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