DPF portfolio with fillable dependable pdf forms.

Hi all!
I have pdf portfolio with some fillable pdf forms in it. This portfolio is generated via LiveCycle services.
All of these pdf forms have equivalent fields. For example: portfolio consists of pdfX, pdfY, pfdZ. And every pdf have fillable field "userName".
And it is not convenient for a user to put the same data to every pdf form.
User wants to put data only to the first one pdf. So, other pdf forms must be filled with data automatically.
And, there is one restriction: user can't send portfilio back to the server, so all automated changes must be done on the client side.
So, is there any way to solve such task?
If there is, please describe some algorithm\strategy of how this can be done.
Thank you.
PS: I'm not sure where to ask this question, so if this branch is wrong - i'm sorry.

Hi,
check this solution.
http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2010/07/shared_data_in_packages_part_2.html
I haven't tried it with Portfolios but with forms attached to other forms and it worked like a charm.

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