Cursor in form field when page opens?

Client wants cursor in first form text field when page opens,
without the user clicking in that box. Must be possible, I just
don't know how to do it.
Thanks,
Alan

all you have to do is set an onload function for the page to
set the focus of that text field

<body OnLoad="document.myform.txtfield.focus();">

<form name="myform">
<input name="txtfield" type="text">
</form>

Similar Messages

Need blank form fields when page spawned

Hi all,
I have a fillable form that has buttons at the top of every page to 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!!!

Please repost in the Acrobat Scripting forum.

Adding saved form fields when page count changes

It appears that there isn't a way inside of EchoSign to apply a set of forms fields that has been saved to the templates if the new version of the form has a page added or deleted.
It seems like it would either require the form fields to be edited outside of EchoSign or be recreated from scratch if the form adds or removes a page when it is updated.
I would appreciate any insight or confirmation.

The situation would be thus:
The document for Form Z is created in a program such as Word and has several pages. The Word document is uploaded to EchoSign. This converts the Word Doc to a pdf, and then the form fields added in EchoSign. Then that EchoSign form is saved as a template (both document and form fields) in the Library.
Now, the client who created the Word document comes back a year later with a revised version of the Word Doc that has one fewer page. If that new Doc is uploaded to EchoSign, the form fields from the first version of the form cannot be imported and applied to the new version because the number of pages in the new document doesn't match the number of pages in the old document.
This appears to be similar to LiveCycle, where you cannot replace the background pdf unless the new file has the same number of pages as the old pdf.
Unfortunately, it is quite common for these larger and more complex forms to add or delete pages when they are revised, and those are exactly the forms that one would want to avoid rebuilding from scratch.

I have been sent a 'word document' in which are a series of boxes about thirty lines long to insure written text. When Pages opens the document it extends these to a whole A4 page how do I get it to retain the original layout

I have been sent a 'word document' in which are a series of boxes about thirty lines long to insert written text. When Pages opens the document it extends these to a whole A4 page how do I get it to retain the original layout

You can't change the way Pages import .doc files.
It was never written that it reproduce exactly the original one.
From my point of view, as I refuse to give a cent to M...soft, the best way to deal with documents issued by their Office suite is to use the free libreOffice.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 7 juillet 2011 11:34:19 iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community
To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !

When you first download Pages, there is a welcome screen with a check mark, in a box, at the bottom left corner that says show this window when Pages opens. How do I recheck that box?

When you first download Pages, there is a welcome screen with a check mark, in a box, at the bottom left corner that says show this window when Pages opens. How do I recheck that box?

Alex,
Go to Pages Help, Welcome to Pages.
Jerry

Position cursor in text field when form is opened

Another newbee question I'm afraid!
I want to position the cursor in a text field when a user opens the form. I can't find a way to do it but I'm pretty sure it's straightforward!
Also, can I remove fields from the tab order?
Thanks (for your help and patience!)

Hi,
You would select the object that you want to receive focus and put the following in the docReady event.
xfa.host.setFocus("this");
The docReady event is a good one to use, because it only fires once.
The tab order can be set in the Tab Order tab. Depending on the version of LC Designer that you have, the flexibility will vary. However I would do this as a last step, as any changes can throw the tab order out of sequence.
Note that tab order is greatly affected by the relevant x/y coordinates of objects and where objects are in separate subforms.
Hope this helps,
Niall

Acrobat XI programmatically reset/clear all form fields when opening a PDF form

I've got a PDF form document that I'm working on. I'd like to add something to it to programmatically clear or reset all form fields to blank when the document is opened.
Thoughts/ideas??
Mucho thanks!!

You can use the resetForm JavaScript method, either in the initial page's Page Open event or in a document-level JavaScript whic will execute when the document is opened.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.523.html

Is there a way to set up a form field in pages?

I would like to add a form field to document similar to Microsoft Word, (the little gray box that you put the cursor in and add text later). I am templating a medical report and would typically use form field boxes, (in MS WOrd), for the areas where I will dictate text into at the time the reports are dictated.
Any assistance appreciated.
Thanks,
Dr. S.

I think this is an unfortunate miscommunication of the term ”form," and I believe it has prematurely obstructed a proper answer to your problem.
Pages can place and define text (or other media) in a template as a placeholder block. Unlike MS Word, it does not incorporate form controls or macros to achieve this functionality.
You would position these placeholder blocks where they are needed within your document template. When you create a new document from this template, your boilerplate would have these embedded placeholder blocks, with their inherent instructions for content completion.
Try the following in your Pages > Help:

Reader-enabled form from Acrobat is retaining interactive form fields when user saves the form

This is an issue that has only recently come up. In the past it was not a problem to take a pdf, add interactive form fields to it in LiveCycle, then open the form in Acrobat and enable usage rights for Reader users.
This allowed Reader users to fill out the form and save the results. With the most recent versions of Acrobat and Reader the user saves the form and the data AND the interactive form fields are saved in the resulting file - meaning that the data is still there to be changed. Clearly not what we want and not what Acrobat and Reader were doing previously.
The form does properly display "You can save data typed in this form" when opened in Reader.
I have got no response to this issue in the LiveCycle forum, and nothing shows up in a search. I would very much like to fix this, as it is affecting our entire library of pdf forms.

In most instances the form is linked on the website, so the original form will cannot be overwritten.
In some cases we have to supply an interactive pdf for a department that they will then distribute by email to various groups who are expected to fill the form out on submit on an ongoing basis. That is what I was meaning by the user filling out the form, printing it, and then being prompted to save changes.
The bigger issue is that most of our users expect to take a form hosted on the website, fill it out, and then save a pdf copy of their responses for reference. The reference copy is retaining the interactive fields rather than printing as a static pdf.
If I could force the action of printing as a pdf (rather than saving as a pdf) on submission I think that would solve the issue. The script for most of the forms in the library is xfa.host.print(1, "0", (xfa.host.numPages -1).toString(), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0); and I am not aware of a way to force the print to only be to the pdf print driver.

Why does the data disappear from my form fields when my form is sent over to client ?

Hi all,
I don't know if this is just happening a few times or ALL the time unfortunately:( I normally send over estimates (as regular pdfs) with some filled out Acrobat forms that make up part of the estimate (these include terms of agreement, project details, etc.). Now, before I send out the pdfs I password protect the entire pdf so that nothing can be changed, but that the pdf can be printed at high quality.
Well, what is happening when my client opens up the pdf (usually on a Windows machine) is that NOTHING APPEARS in all of the form fields where I had input and saved the data! Yet when I open up the form on my Mac in Acrobat, or Reader or Preview, all looks just fine. Any idea why this is happening and what I could do to prevent it from happening in the future? I am using Acrobat X.
Thank you kindly,
Christine

Hi Gilad,
I never use Preview and did not use Preview at all before sending the document over to my most recent client either.
I only opened Preview up this morning after I discovered that all of the form data had disappeared on his end! And the only reason I opened up Preview was because I already knew it looked fine in Acrobat so wanted so wanted to view the form in a different application.
My client would not even have notified me about it had he not sent the signed form back to me and I saw there was no data there! I then called him and asked him about the missing data and he said that he thought I had simply sent over the form purposely with blank fields:(
I have just emailed him to ask him what application he opened it up in. My understanding is that he is on Windows because ne mentioned to me his company was using Windows when we last spoke. Perhaps he has a personal Macbook where he opened it? I just don't know and can hopefully soon find out:)
But THANK YOU for letting me know about that script! I appreciate it:) I have now downloaded and installed it and will just have to use it on ALL of my forms before sending them out:)

Inserting Form Fields in Pages Document

Does anyone know if it is poossible to insert a form field into a pages document just like what can be done is a Word document? I would like the ability to develop a template that has some drop-down menus throughout the document (for different variables) so I can reuse the template in various scenarios by simply selecting the appropriate info from each menu.
Example:
"Your time horizon is Menu Choice (drop-down with: 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, greater than 10 years).
I'll I've been able to find is the mail merge feature. But I'm not looking to merge data from my contacts.

No you can't lock the document. If you even lock the textboxes you can't type into them.
I'm a supposed expert (I use countless DTP apps) and I don't find Pages easy at all. In fact for many tasks it is quite a kludge.
But the templates are nice.
Peter

The cursor won't focus when I open a new tab

I've read through multiple threads on this in attempt to not waste people's time with a silly question. After trying the myriad of ideas, the problem persists. When I open a new tab whether with about:newtab or about:blank, the cursor does not focus anywhere. It doesn't matter if I use cntrl t or the "+". I'd like to get it to focus in the address bar by the end of things.
Here is what I've tried:
I've changed the the about:newtab to about:blank. This didn't work.
I disabled all extensions - which is to say the Classic Theme Add-On which is the only one I have. That didn't work.
I started in Safe Mode, that didn't work.
I've reset Firefox. That didn't work.
I've reinstalled Firefox, that didn't work.
I'm concerned that I'll have to get lucky like https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/972359 and wake up to the problem resolving itself. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

On the first window, it works fine. On a new tab, it stops?
Have you tried to open another window as a test? New tab on new window?
'''[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode Start Firefox in Safe Mode]''' {web link}
While you are in safe mode;
Type '''about:preferences#advanced'''<Enter> in the address bar.
Under '''Advanced,''' Select '''General.'''
Look for and turn off '''Use Hardware Acceleration'''.
Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?
Then restart.

Set focus to specific field when page is loaded

Hi
simple login page (jsp) with 2 fields. when the page is loaded, I want the focus directly in the first field, so that the user can immediately start typing his userid. How do I do this with Creator 2?
thanks, Peter

thanks, I was missing the proper search term ... :-)
here I found the answer: http://swforum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?forumID=123&threadID=63057
Peter

How to implement animation effection when page opening?

I have seen some Flash page, when you open it, at first, it
shows an animation first, and then show up the real page.
I would like do my Flex page like this. When open the page,
it shows the big company logo, and it is going to shrink and move
to left corner (where is the location of logo display on real
page), and in same time, the real page come out. Or, the real page
already in there, the big logo on top of it, and it shrink to small
and move the logo location.
I know Flex have some effection, but I don’t know which
one I can use. And I don’t know how can I make it work when
the page opening. Or, I need use a swf file show the animation, and
bind the swf file on the flex code?
Any idea will be great help. Thanks.

Try the download on the following link. The download itself is for the 4620, but for the exact same issue. Based on the file name of the download it doesnt look like it is specific to that model of printer, so its worth a shot.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-104077-2&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en...
Jon-W
I work on behalf of HP
Please click “Accept as Solution ” on the post that solves your issue to help others find the solution.
Click the KUDOS STAR on the left to say “Thanks” for helping!

IPhoto remove all iCloud pictures and reload form iCloud when I opened via Aperture

Hi,
I have almost 100GB iCloud pictures & moves.
When I open a Aperture library via iPhoto, every time iPhoto remove all iCloud pictures, and let me enable iCloud photo again.
So I must still wait iPhoto finish download all iCloud pictures again.
It looks iPhoto's iCloud is different than Aperture iCloud even it is same library.
And enable iCloud picture in Aperture looks can't use iCloud information in iPhoto if you don't do re-enable in iPhoto,
Final each re-enable will remove all iCloud picture & download all again in local PC cache.
Is this I did something mistake?
Thanks
Peter

Hi,
I saw it looks be fixed via iPhoto update ver 9.6.1 today.
Thank you.
Peter

Cursor in form field when page opens?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for