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October 12, 2016
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How to create a form field that will automatically generate another one below it with same rules.

  • October 12, 2016
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Greetings,

Can anyone tell me how I can create a fillable form field in my document that when information is entered into it, it will automatically generate another exact same form field below it with the same rules?

I am making a fillable form that will ask for schools attended. Since everyone has different numbers of schools to enter,  I would like it to only generate enough fields in the form to have all schools attended plus another form space.

Thank you!

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caribeth5Author
Participant
October 13, 2016

I think I did not explain my question properly! Forgive me.

I am looking to be able to create a form text field that when clicked on and information is inputted, another form field will form below it. The user then if continuing to click on the new form fields will keep generating a text box to fill with information until they do not need any more entries.

I want to be able to have my form user be able to print out a customized form with the exact number of fields needed without me having to format the form with a certain number of fields only that will unnecessarily print.

The form must adhere to specific formats so a lot of blank spaces is not good!

Thank you, please let me know if you need additional clarification.

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 13, 2016

That's not possible with an Acrobat PDF form. It is possible using a PDF form created with an application called LiveCycle Designer, though.

caribeth5Author
Participant
October 13, 2016

TY!

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 13, 2016

Copy the fields from the first page and then paste them in the second one to get identical copies. Fields with the same name will automatically have the same value, so if the user edits them on one page it will update the rest of them as well.

Meenakshi_Negi
Legend
October 13, 2016

Moving this to PDF Forms