Editing Form Fields

I need to integrate a 3rd party conversion tool and they want me to update the form field names and I wanted to double check that this doesn't break anything in BC.
Does BC use the field input name or input field ID to track the data? Can I change either without breaking anything?
<tr>
                <td><label for="FirstName">First Name <span class="req">*</span></label><br />
                <input type="text" name="FirstName" id="FirstName" class="cat_textbox" maxlength="255" /> </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>

Yes. It needs to know which field it is so it can enter the data in the system. If you change it it won't find it.

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Thank you! That seems to work fine and keeps my old editable form fields.

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I called a friend of mine who walked me through this so I will post the instructions for anyone else who may be having this problem...
1. Open the PDF with the form fields in a recent version of Acrobat.
2. Click on the Toolls tab.
3. Under Forms, click Edit.
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Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended == Acrobat
LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 == LiveCycle Designer
=========================================
Say I downloaded a new PDF from the interwebs.
I want to add some forms fields so I go to Forms ==> Add or Edit Fields... (inside Acrobat)
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Now say I want to remove a particular object from the PDF, lets take an image as an example.
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Thank you Niall for the above response; Your response gave me an idea which allowed me to remove that line by zooming in to 200%
You know Acrobat detects Form Fields for you.
But many times it makes mistakes, for example in the screenshot below it made the boxes that came with the PDF as text fields instead of check boxes.
The thing is rather than me delete the (form) fields it detected, and start over by making new check boxes, I will not be able to place my new check box in exact locations as Acrobat has done.
When I imported the fields that Acrobat made into LC (by saving the PDF in Acrobat and then opening it with LC) I get option to change the Object Type from Text Field to Check Box when I right click the object.
Is there a similar way to change the Object Type from Text Field to Check Box inside Acrobat? Any suggestions?
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I would really like to do it inside Acrobat because then if I have to make some minor changes to some field properties, all my hard work which I did by filling the fields gets deleted, as I am forced to use LC. The text I add to the fields don't get deleted when I edit the field properties inside Acrobat. I don't know why LC decides to delete all the text which is filled out in the form fields even though the PDF is saved in Acrobat before being imported into LC?
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http://www.mediafire.com/?lnn32jm5am5
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Could you please be more specific on the same.
What type of form fields have you used in the PDF that you wish to convert to check boxes?
Using Acrobat, you can simply choose "Tools> Forms> Edit" and add check box to the desired place in the PDF.
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Editing Form Field color and search field

I am designing a website - nextmedian.com and I am having
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[CODE]
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action="/cgi-bin/formmail/formmail.cgi" method="post">
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:53:25 +0000 (UTC), "wire_jp"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I am designing a website - nextmedian.com and I am having
some trouble changing
>the background color of the some form fields for "Your
Full Name" and "Your
>E-mail" from yellow to dark blue. The link is
>
http://www.nextmedian.com/contacts.html
They look dark blue to me. Disable your Google toolbar.
Gary

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