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February 14, 2020
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Making a form field visible and automatically moves other form fields

  • February 14, 2020
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Does anyone know if this is possible ? 

I have a form that has the potential of 0 to 4 clients work of information to be filled out. 

If the person selects 3 clients I would like 2 client sections to appear, I know how to make a field "hidden" and visible. But is it possible for other form fields to move down automatically if more than one client is selected. 

So if there is 2 clients (when the option is selected) a second client section would appear but insert itself under the first client and then move everything else down automatically so it does not overlap. 

 

Thank you

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Correct answer Thom Parker

Creating a Page Template for the client sections is the way to go. Reflowing fields (and associated page content) is not feasible with PDFs.  

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February 17, 2020

Creating a Page Template for the client sections is the way to go. Reflowing fields (and associated page content) is not feasible with PDFs.  

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February 14, 2020

To do that you would need to place the entire contents of the file in form fields, or you could use entire pages by converting them Template objects and then spawn/delete them as needed.