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Adding calculations to a form that needs to be saved by multiple users. Plus adding an "add duplicate page" button.

zest
Registered: Nov 28 2011
Posts: 2

I have a risk assessment form that I have created - it needs to be stored on a users computer (not on-line).
 
The form asks for:
 
Name risk: (the user enters a potential Health and Safety risk)
Likelihood of the risk (the user enters selects 1-5 from the drop down)
Size of risk (again the user enters selects 1-5 from the drop down)
Score (I have entered a sum to calculate the score).
 
There are 20 available entries per page.
 
My problem is that I need to create a button for the user to add a new (duplicate) page.
 
To get the calculations to work I seem to need to give each field a unique reference. Which takes an age to wire up.
 
Is there any way to simplify this process? And how can I allow the user to add as many pages as they would like?
 
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Bill

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My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.1, Macintosh
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Is this file going to be used in Reader, or just in Acrobat?
If the former, then you can't do it unless you have access to the LiveCycle Reader Extensions Server.
See here for more info: http://acrobatusers.com/forum/forms-acrobat/new-page-reader

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zest
Registered: Nov 28 2011
Posts: 2
Hi - thanks for the response. It is hard to say, as the form will be sent out to multiple users acres various businesses.

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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
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In that case it's reasonable to assume not all of them will have Acrobat, in which case you're out of luck.
See my response in the thread I linked to, though. It's a less "neat" approach, but it will work, even in Reader.
You can even make the fields on the extra page(s) hidden until the user clicks a button...

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