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Problem with creating checkboxes

Thomps
Registered: Dec 15 2008
Posts: 4

Hi

I'm using Acrobat 8 Professional on win xp.

I'm using this software to create a form used by teachers to write reports for children. Some is written (created textbox) and some ticks have to be put in some places, which I used checkboxes for.

The problem is that a page can have lots and lots of checkboxes (up to 80 or even more) and I want to give the teachers a single document containing 30 pages so they can do the whole class at once. In other words, I want to copy the first page 30 times.

Whichever way I try to do this, the checkboxes on the subsequent pages get called by the same names as the checkboxes on the first page. So... tick a box on page one for John Smith and the box automatically gets ticked for Mary Evans on page 2.

I don't need the checkboxes to do anything other than show a tick on screen and on the document that will eventually get printed out.

Hope this makes sense, and would really appreciate anyones help on this.

Thanks
Paul

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You need a way of creating the additional pages with unique field names and this can not be done by using the template object in Acrobat and using JavaScript to spawn a new page from the template and renaming the fields upon spawning the new page from the template. See [url=http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=a_lesson_in_templates_for_adob&gid=6466]A Lesson in Templates for Adobe Acrobat[/url] by Dave Wraight at Planet PDF.

George Kaiser

Thomps
Registered: Dec 15 2008
Posts: 4
Hi

Many thanks to gkaiseril for the quick and accurate reply.

Took me a little while to get my head around it, but it works and has saved me a great deal of time.

Glad I posted.

Top Forum!

Cheers
Paul