Q: I am designing forms with Adobe Designer/Acrobat Pro 7.0.4. I have one particular field that is populated by the user. When this field is populated, I tab the user to another field where I want the same data to go. I'd like to auto-populate that field so they don't have to copy and paste.
Is this possible?
A:If you name the second field the exact same name as the first field, all data will be duplicated in the second field.
Reply to Ted: I copied one text field box to the other spot for the duplicate text field.
The fields are named the same under binding, and the grayed out box next to the binding field is a different number.
When I tab, or type into the first field, the fields are not linking.
What am I doing wrong?
Should I be making the change in the XML Source?
Use FormCalc as your scripting language and write the following script for the field where you want the data duplicated:
field2=(field1)
This script takes the value of the field1 text field and enters the same value in the field2 text field.
ted
The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.