Duplicate form fields

Hi everyone,
Spry is growing. I was checking all posts in this forum but I
couldn't find somebody who try to duplicate inputs, texteareas, ...
and other html element with spry. Is it possible ?
I llok the documentation also and I could not find something
that sound like that.
Does anyone has an idea to do that keeping spry
functionalities (validation, ...) ?
Thanks

What a pitty ;-) Anyway I will wait for this behavior. It is
a major thing for rich forms and that give a good user experience.
Thanks for your answer, I will look around and keep an eyes
on that.

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FormsCentral: Easily duplicate form fields

Hi guys!
I'm creating a form within FormsCentral that asks our members how many people are in their household. From there, I need fields like name, email, address, phone number, etc. to popup. If they answer, 4 household members, then I need those questions to popup 4 times. Any clue how to do this easily without me having to duplicate each form field individually? Thanks in advance! - Esmith07

Hi esmith07,
The functionality you're looking for isn't exactly there in FormsCentral. You can, however, work around it manually. How I would do it:
1. When they fill out the information about Person #1, have an additional yes/no question asking them if they have another household member to include.
2. If they click Yes, have new fields appear for Person #2 (using show hide logic: you will create those new fields in advance, but keep them hidden unless they click yes). Also include another Yes/No question asking if they have another member of the household to include.
3. If they click Yes, repeat as needed.
As the form designer, you have to anticipate your maximum number of responses per household. If you want to cap it at some number, say - six, for example, then after they have filled in the info for six people, and you ask them if they have any more, you could ask them to fill out the form again with the remaining name(s), or you could throw up a multi-line text box and ask them to include the same info, and then you could parse it out after they have submitted the form.
It's a bit tedious to set up the first time, but it works.
I hope that helps,
Brian

Duplicate form fields across multi-page forms

Hello!
I have some multi-page forms which include a few identically laid out pages; pages which take a long time to manually set up (nearly 100 fields per page, of varying sizes and positions)...
I tried to duplicate the fields from one page to the others, which worked; but they are identical fields, meaning text input into one will likewise be seen in the other pages. I need the other pages to be unique, even though they look identical (field-wise they look identical, the background images for my form distinguish the actual contents of each field).
Copy/Paste is the same as duplicate.
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How do I create a text box or form field on the top of every page of a pdf in XI Pro for titles?

I generate pdf content from another program and then in Acrobat XI Pro I want to add titles to each page.
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Or could i add a form field to a background and then apply the background to every page in the pdf?
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This type of thing is probably best done with a script, either by adding a uniquely named field to each page or by spawing a template page that contains just the form field (like your last idea). There's not a built-in method for doing this. If you add a blank page to the beginning of the document, create the field in the location you want, and make the page a template, you can run the following script in the interactive JavaScript console (Ctrl+J):
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Making a form, why does the text type over top of itself in the form field?

Hi, I am making a certificate form for a client to fill out and print when needed. I designed everything in InDesign, exported to pdf, and made a form field for Old English MT for the name and date. When I close the form editing window and type a name in the allocated spot, the letters type on top of each other, not left to right like normal. I am working on a mac, client is on a pc.

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Acrobat X Pro - Duplication of form fields

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i have read at least 4 articles and watch 3 videos that do almost the same process i have explained. the only difference is that they used Word to create their PDF doc. they had no issues.
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I have a spreadsheet that has over 300 fields that should have been detected. so yes, i could create them manually, but i am hoping to get this Acrobat to detect them.
I tried the process you did "File=>Create Form". i got same message.
i built a separate little test process to describe the issue. see image that is attached.
it is very simple, yet no fields were detected.

Duplicating form fields from one PDF document to another

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Does anyone know of a way to select and duplicate all acrobat form fields from one PDF document into a new PDF document. I know I can do so one field at a time but would like to know if there is a way to do so in a wholesale fashion.
Our PDF documents are created in-house each year and are nearly the same as the previous year's document containing 99% of the same form fields in the same locations. These forms contain a lot of form fields, anywhere from 50 to 100 fields.
Rather than start from scratch each year defining the same fields that were present in the previous year's document, I am looking for a way to copy the form fields from an existing PDF document (last year's PDF in our case) and copy the form fields into a new PDF document (that does not yet have any form fields defined) and hopefully maintain all the field attributes and positions from the previous years document.
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The PDF template we need to copy the form fields "to" doesn't start out having any form fields. It is the fields that we need copied from a previous year's PDF template.
Here's an except from my original post: "I am looking for a way to copy the form fields from an existing PDF document (last year's PDF in our case) and copy the form fields into a new PDF document (that does not yet have any form fields defined)"
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So again, our need is to find a way to copy form fields from "last year's" PDF template and copy just the form fields to an fresh "new year's" PDF template that contains no form fields to begin with. What we begin with is just a PDF representation of a paper student loan application.
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Font changes in PDF form fields created in InDesign

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Printing form fields only on Reader

Before I get to the meat, a little background. We are in the process of converting all of our forms into PDFs so to keep everything the same across the company. My company is a contract packager, and we ship out many items. We have purchased forms for Bills of Lading and Packing slips that have duplicate copies for the back.
We would like to be able to scan the form into the computer, and create a PDF with text fields to type in the information, but then only print the form field data. Basically, I want the form to show up on the computer screen but only print the data that's entered. With Acrobat, I can select in the printer box to print form fields only, but when I put the form on the system and tried it on a computer that only has Reader it doesn't give me the option of printing the fields only. (I'm the only computer that has and uses Acrobat).
I'm not a programmer of any sorts, but is there a way to have Reader do what I want it to?
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Bret

Hello Eveyone
My solution for this is simple
In Adobe Pro, go to menu bar in:
Documente-->
Backgroup-->
Add and Replace or Update
in Apperance select
Apperance Options
remove the check for "SHOW WHEN PRINTING"
This solved the problem to print forms with background in your company.
GOOD LUCK

Can Acrobat be made to verify one form field against another?

Here is an interesting problem, and I'm wondering if Acrobat has the functionality to solve it.
The sales department is holding up application processing time. They either forget to fill in blocks of information, or they misspell the buyer's name (Billy on page 1 and William on page 4).
Can Acrobat be programmed to verify one form field against another in order to eliminate these errors?
Thank you.

I had considered this as well.
That solution would work in an ideal situation. In this situation, however, it would probably not be a final workable solution. Consider the case above. This organization needs the full legal name on the application. However, in the first field our friendly sales department enters Billy (instead of William). If the "duplicate field" solution was embraced, Billy would automatically be embedded and a denial instantly triggered.
If one form field can be verified against another, then can I assume various formulas could be generated from that?
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If not field E (then no B and no C)
Is this also correct?

Why would my PDF Form print out the tab order on top of my form fields?

When this user prints out the filled out PDF form we created, it prints the tab order as a little square numbered box right on top of the form field entry. The tab order prints over all types of fields, text entry fields, check box fields, etc.
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Thanks for your reply! Based on your suggestion I did a little experimenting.
This is a form saved to Enable User Rights so PDF viewers can fill out and email or save the form. After seeing your question, I opened the form for editing (actually saving a copy first that was not restricted, and editing the copy). I then toggled the Tab Numbers on via Tools > under the Forms header I clicked Edit > Other Tasks > Edit Fields > Show Tab Numbers. After revealing the tab numbers I then tried to save the form as a Reader Extended PDF, but the Enable Additional Features option was grayed out. Even if I wanted to, I could not save the form with the tab numbers revealed.
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