Need help with a 9-page form

Question

I've created a single-page PDF form with LOTS of form fields (most of them checkboxes). I need to duplicate the page/form another eight times so that I have the same form across nine pages. My problem is, if I don't change the names of the form fields on each page (which would take a REALLY long time), as soon as something gets checked on the first page, it will also get checked on all eight of the other pages. Is there a way to make my nine-page form work without having to re-name each and every form field? Thank you for any assistance you can provide! I'm working in Acrobat 9 standard on a Windows computer.

Answer 1

Yes, make the single page into a template and spawn it eight times, specifying that you want to rename the fields in the process. Here are some previous threads that discuss this in more detail:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4745648
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1084011
The code in the second topic doesn't include the parameter that causes the fields to be renamed, you you could easily include it:
// Make a template out of the first page
var t1 = createTemplate("t1", 0);
// Spawn the template to create a new page
var oXO = t1.spawn({nPage: numPages, bRename: true, bOverlay: false});
// Now that we have the XObject, spawn the rest of the pages
while (numPages < 9) {
    t1.spawn({nPage: numPages,  bRename: true, bOverlay: false, oXObject: oXO});
Message was edited by: George Johnson to correct a typo.