Help with combining fields and sequential numbering

This will take care of what you describe.  Put it in the mousse up event of your button.  Also I figured you would want the sequential to display somewhere.  It will be displayed in a field named "sequential".  What it does is first prompt the user as to how many copies he wants.  Then it loops x time (the number entered) through a print function designed to process silently while  a thermometer keeps track of what page your are actually printing (tough it is not precise, mine locks after 3 even if the loop is still printing jobs).  The user needs to input a NUMBER when prompted or it will not work.

function printMe(rep){

var myField1 = this.getField("field#1").valueAsString

var myField2 = this.getField("field#2").valueAsString

var myField3 = this.getField("field#3").valueAsString

var prefix = myField1+myField2+myField3

//set print parameters

var pp = this.getPrintParams() ;

var fv = pp.constants.flagValues;

pp.flags |= fv.setPageSize;

pp.interactive = pp.constants.interactionLevel.silent;

//set a thermometer to keep track of what's happening

var t = app.thermometer

t.duration = rep

t.begin()

for (x=1;x<=rep;x++){

t.value = x

t.text = "Processing page "+x

var sRep = String(x)

var aRep = sRep.split("")

while (aRep.length < 4) aRep.unshift("0")

sRep = aRep.join("")

var seq = prefix+sRep

this.getField("sequential").value = seq

this.print(pp)

}

t.end()

}

var rep = Number(app.response({

cQuestion: "How many copies to you need?",

cTitle: "How many",

cLabel: "Number of copies:"

}))

printMe(rep)

You say you need to print the file thousands of times. Are you planning to do that by specifying the number of copies in the Print dialog to X, or by opening the Print dialog X times and printing the files once each time?

Because a script like that will only work in the latter scenario...

The alternative is to use a script to generate each print command, and then it will be possible to also change the field's value before each such command.