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Determining changes in a Text Box

dgordon
Registered: Oct 22 2008
Posts: 2

Is there a way, using Javascript, to track what edits the form user made to a pre-populated text box? Idealy, just the changes would be copied to another text box.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1.2, Macintosh
maxwyss
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Registered: Jul 25 2006
Posts: 256
If your pre-population is static (meaning always the same), make it the default value.

If it is dynamic, run a script after pre-filling (or when opening the pre-filled form) which sets all default values to the field's values.

Then parse the fields and compare their value with the default value. When you have a difference, the user has changed something...

Hope this can help.

Max.