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Total Newbie Question: Random/Unique number in a text field

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2009-11-25 02:48:24
apt
Registered: Nov 25 2009
Posts: 12
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Hi All

I'm a total newbie to scripting in Acrobat Pro but I'm sure I have a really simple question for someone.

All I'm wanting is a text field on a PDF form that when opened generates a random/unique set of numbers each time. I've done a search and found a few answers which point me in the right direction but I don't know where to begin to implement the solution. From what I understand I think this would be a document script at opposed to a calculation script in the text field itself.

Like I said I'm totally new to scripting in Acrobat and would really appreciate any help.

Thanks

Adrian

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.2, Macintosh
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2009-11-25 03:07:13
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apt
Registered: Nov 25 2009
Posts: 12
Thanks for the link I'll use this as bedtime reading. Any chance someone could point me in the right direction with my problem in this instance?
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2009-11-25 07:50:25
#2
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Paul Guerette covered this in his [url=http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p91165028/]tech talk[/url] awhile back. He also created [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/auc/content/landing_pages/tech_talks/downloads/LCTechTalkSamples.pdf]sample files[/url], which you can download and use for unique number generation for forms created in LiveCycle designer.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2009-11-25 08:16:23
#3
apt
Registered: Nov 25 2009
Posts: 12
Thats for that I'll give them a look. Can't seem to access the sample scripts in the sample files as its saying something about being an XML form!!?!?!??!
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2009-11-25 08:25:19
#4
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Which one is giving you the problem -- Generate_Unique_Ids.pdf? Try opening it up in LiveCycle Designer.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2009-11-25 08:45:48
#5
apt
Registered: Nov 25 2009
Posts: 12
Don't actually have LiveCycle Designer, I'm on a Mac and from what I understand its a Windows product.
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2009-11-25 09:02:36
#6
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
The samples are for LiveCycle Designer. Here is another example from another one of our Experts at:
http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/153031.asp

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2009-11-25 09:10:15
#7
apt
Registered: Nov 25 2009
Posts: 12
Many thanks you are a star :)
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