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Creating A Form with Incremented Serial Numbers

BDKoster
Registered: May 14 2009
Posts: 5
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Is it possible to build a fill-in form where a range of serial numbers can be entered and the form will be filled in with that range of incremented serial numbers? The form has already been designed in MS Word 2007.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.1.3, Windows
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2399
What do you mean, exactly? Do you want the serial number to increment each time the form is opened?
Do you want a random number?
Either is possible, but if you want to make sure that number is unique you will need to use some sort of database connection.

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BDKoster
Registered: May 14 2009
Posts: 5
I would like to have the user enter a Serial Number Seed, then a Quantity/Range and have the form populate the empty fields with the serial numbers in sequence ({Seed = 0151} >> 0151, 0152, 0153, etc). Is this possible? I know it can be done in Word/Excel, however, I don't want the user running macros or changing the form structure.
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2399
It's possible, but you will need to create a custom JavaScript to do it.

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