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Sequential Number Generator

2007-04-25 02:23:01

1josha

Registered: Apr 24 2007

Posts: 18

Hi,

I am a beginner at form design and adobe in general. Please help.

I want to create a calculated field in a form i am designing that is a automatically generated sequential number. The number must never repeat.

Can it be done?

I was thinking it might be possible to call the "last open" time and/or date property of the form to generate the number.

Josh.

2007-05-16 20:53:08

pdftrainer

Registered: Dec 14 2005

Posts: 180

Here are a couple of suggestions. One uses the Math.random() function and the other uses the date:

http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/153031.asp

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2007-05-17 07:13:19

1josha

Registered: Apr 24 2007

Posts: 18

Thanks.

I fiddled for a while and worked out how to get it to work using the date/time. The only problem I have is that I wanted to ensure a unique number so I included seconds. I think I selected the wrong event type or something because the field automatically updates every second as the time changes.

Any ideas?