Create Multiple Saved PDFs

Question

Each Month, I need to prepare forms for our payroll guys for each of my 40 team members.
I have a pdf form which I call Master Form.pdf. I also have data that needs to go in the form in a tab-deliminated text file (I use excel to save data in this file).
At present, I need to open the Master Form.pdf and select import data option and then individually select one row at a time.
After selecting the row, I flatten the page and save it as "team member + yymmdd + advance.pdf".
This is very tedious. Is it possible to write a script which will:
a.     open my “Master Form.pdf” and “Data.txt”;
b.     selects each row that has Y entered in first column;
c.     enters data in the file;
d.     Flattens the page;
e.     saves it in a preselected location, in a new directory of todays date yymmdd format with file name as team member + yymmdd + advance.pdf
Many thanks for your help!!!

Answer 1

Most of this is possible. Here are some pointers:
For A, open the data file and read from it using the importTextData method: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.502.html
This needs to be run from a privileged context, so it would be best to set up a folder-level JavaScript file for this.
For B, you would have to check the form field that's populated with the corresponding field in the data field to see if its value is "Y" and extract and save to a new file using the doc.extractPages method: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.465.html
This too needs to be run from a privileged context.
For C, this will happen automatically as you loop through the records in the data file using the importTextData method in step A.
For D, use the doc.flattenPages method: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.466.html
To make this easier, you can in step B spawn a template to create a new page and flatten it and then extract the page to a new file. See the template.spawn method for more info: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.1216.html
For E, that would be part of the doc.extractPages process, although it will not let you create a new folder, so you'll have to save to an existing one.