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Populate from an user input

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
April 20, 2018
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Hi.

I know how to populate several fields from data stored in an attachment when an user select an item in a dropdown list.

Now I need to populate several fields from an attchment but user must not choose in a list, he must enter his ID in a text field, and other fields must be populated accordingly to the input.

Is it possible?

How?

Acrobat SDK and JavaScript

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JR Boulay

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Thank you, but I know how to populate fields.

I just need to know how to look for a string into an attachment.

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try67

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Use the getDataObjectContents method.

JR Boulay

Author

Community Expert

Thank you.

Fortunately my client has canceled his request.
I could not figure how to match the input data with the one in the table.

;-)

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G

George_Johnson

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Is the ID that the user will enter included in data that could be stored in an attachment or hardcoded in a JavaScript?

JR Boulay

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Community Expert

User's IDs are stored in the CSV file, with all data. Each set of data is on a row (about 15000).

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try67

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I've developed this tool that allows you to set it up: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Populate Fields From Dropdown

I was built for a dropdown, but can be easily adjusted to work using a text field, instead, as the logic of looking up the value in the attached file and then populating the rest of the fields is the same.

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