narasingh.naveen

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Need your support on auto filling form from custom properties

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Hi All,

I am new to the environment, My requirement We created some custom fields for pdf document and we created a pdf form as well. Now our requirement is what data is available in Custom Properties it has to auto fill in the pdf form. I heard we can achive using javascript. Could someone please help me on this.

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The Acrobat JavaScript reference includes information about document info fields: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2FJS_API_AcroJS%2FDoc_properties.htm%23TOC_info1bc-21&rhtocid=_6_1_8_23_0_20

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Hi johnson,

Thank you so much, is it same for Custom Properties as well or anything else we need to follow

regards

Naveen

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It should work. Here's a code sample the gets the value from a custom info field and populates a text field:

getField("Text1").value = info["My Custom Info Field"];

where "My Custom Info Field" is the name of the info field you want to use.

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HI,

Are you wanting to copy some of the data from the document information to some fields on the document?

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Malcolm

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narasingh.naveenAuthor

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Thank you So much for your response. Yes you are I want to copy from custom Properties to the form fields inside the document.

Kindly help me as it is urgent for my use case. let me know if you need any additional information.

Thanks,

Naveen.

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