Dynamic Page Numbering script isn't working on spawned pages?

Question

I'm working in Acrobat Pro XI on a 4 page document with a button that allows a template pages to be inserted after page 3. I created a button for this and it is working fine. But each page has a text field that is supposed to auto update all of the page numbers. The code looks like this:

event.value="Page "+(event.target.page+1)+" of "+this.numPages;

calculateNow();

On the four pages visible when the file is opened it is working perfectly; they will update from "Page 1 of 4" to "1 of 5", etc. without any problems. However, the inserted template pages are very random. Sometimes the first spawned one will work and say Page 4 of 5 but sometimes it will say Page 0 of 4. It's worth mentioning that even when it says Page 4 of 5 printing that page shows it saying Page 0 of 4 again. And any additional pages spawned after that will list a bunch of random numbers out of the correct number of pages. So it will look like "Page 7, 6, 5, 4, 31 of 9".

I've been looking through a lot of previously asked questions and haven't seen any quite like this.

George_Johnson · Accepted Answer

If you want to add a new page for each press of the button, you can simplify the code to:

getTemplate("Addittional Collaborators").spawn(numPages, true, false);

but you'll have to add code to correctly set the "page x of y" field values. Post again if you have trouble with that part.

George_Johnson · Answer

Where did you place that script exactly? Can you show the code you're using to spawn the template that includes the field that's used to display the "Page 1 of 4" text?

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