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'f has no properties' message in JavaScript Debugger

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2010-01-19 09:35:50
jmason
Registered: Jun 22 2007
Posts: 73
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I am creating a form for someone else, and this form has several dollar fields that take the sum of several other dollar fields. One field takes a percentage of a dollar amount in another field. Someone on this site helped me with that calculation script earlier last week, and it worked beautifully.

However, when I asked the person I'm making the form for to test it, she had a few other changes, including removing a few fields, and adding one or two more to a different part of the form. Now, when I try to test the form fields, I get a message in the JavaScript Debugger box that says 'f has no properties'. I do not have a field named 'f', so I have no idea what this means.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.3, Windows
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2010-01-19 09:45:30
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
It sounds like your code is trying to access a field that is no longer part of the form because of a deletion or renaming of the field.

In general the 'f' for the error is not the field name but a JavaScirpt object should have been created for a field with some name. This generally happens with the internal functions used by Acrobat. You may have to review each field calculation, action, etc to see if a one or more fields have changed or been removed.

George Kaiser

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2010-01-19 10:17:32
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jmason
Registered: Jun 22 2007
Posts: 73
gkaiseril wrote:
It sounds like your code is trying to access a field that is no longer part of the form because of a deletion or renaming of the field.In general the 'f' for the error is not the field name but a JavaScirpt object should have been created for a field with some name. This generally happens with the internal functions used by Acrobat. You may have to review each field calculation, action, etc to see if a one or more fields have changed or been removed.
This worked. I also changed some of my fields so that they do not have spaces, and do not contain all numbers. I went through each calculated field and redid the calculations with the appropriate fields and it stopped displaying that message. Thank you, yet again, mr. gkaiseril!
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