A strange problem in Adobe javascript Calculate event

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September 3, 2017
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I am working with Adobe Acrobat for about 6 years (since the time of acrobatusers.com). I have created thousands of forms with javascript.

Today I faced a strange problem that broke me. I have written this code in a textbox calculate event

app.alert("Hello World");

According to my experience it should show a message "Hello Word" every time the form is opened. But it is not showing any message.

I am on Windows 10 (64 bit) with Acrobat 11 and Reader DC.

I have tried it on my old laptop Windowns 10 (32bit) but the problem is same.

Please, please help me.

Acrobat SDK and JavaScript

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Mohammad_IrfanAuthor

Participant

Thank you very much.

I am still unable to digest this reply. Actually I am going to create a dynamic stamp and as you know in stamp we have only access to calculate event of stamp textbox. If calculate event of stamp textbox will not trigger ( according to your answer) how will we go further? Second I have created a date field in stamp (javascript in date field calculate event) date is no also changing when I change computer date.

Please help me. Am I missing something?

try67

Community Expert

Fields in stamps are even less dynamic than regular fields. They are flattened the moment the stamp is applied and can't be edited (using a script) afterwards.

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Mohammad_IrfanAuthor

Participant

Ok. Can I add a dynamic field in stamp. So that a textbox in stamp has value today's date before the stamp is applied??

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gkaiseril

Inspiring

If you want a script to run on the opening of a given page then use the "Page Open" event. If you want the script to open when the PDF is opened then use the document level event.

Entering document scripts

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/js_document_scripts