Fill a PDF form from Excel

Question

Hello to all.
I've been googling around for days to find some examples to solve my problem but was unable to find a good one.
I’m using Excel 2007 and Visual Studio 2010
Normally I report the data using Excel itself (a workbook). Now the request I have is to fill a PDF file containing a form with a huge number of lines. This means the data i have in the columns and lines of the Excel Worksheet have to be entered in the PDF form fields.
The PDF file was created withAdobe LiveCycle Designer 11.0 and has the ability to allow the creation and deletion of as many lines as we need.
I do even have a way to know the PDF form fields names...
Can someone please give me a clue of how can i achieve this using VB?
Thanks in advance for any kind help.
Octavio

Answer 1

In that case the for loop would be:
    for (var i = 0; i < 8; i += 1) {
        sum += +getField("Total." + i).value;
So initially, the counter i is equal to zero, so the field name used with the getField method is:
"Total." + 0, which results in the string "Total.0". With each iteration, the variable i is incremented by 1, so the subsequent field names are the following:
"Total.1"
"Total.2"
"Total.3"
"Total.4"
"Total.5"
"Total.6"
"Total.7"
The script gets the value of each field, converts it to a number, and adds the number it to the running sum.