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Renaming or Replacing a Field name through Action Wizard Jscript (batch process) Acrobat XI Pro

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December 6, 2017
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I have a signature field on a form with the name "Signature of Employer or Authorized Person".

For some reason, nothing happens when I run the script like this:

var f = this.getField("Signature of Employer or Authorized Person);

I think it's due to the spaces in between the field name. I can't change the field name through Form Edit mode since I do not own the form.

Is there a way to have this field name changed or replaced with a simpler name like "signature1" via JavaScript?

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Have you checked the console for messages? That's where the scripts only messages and any reports will go.

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amretn71955851Author

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Yes, this is on the console on JavaScript Debugger:

f is null.

try67

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That means you're specifying an incorrect field name.

try67

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JS can't rename a field. What you can do, though, is delete the old field and then create a new one in its place, with the new name.

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amretn71955851Author

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Is there any guide/example to do this?

Sorry, I am not very good with JavaScript.

try67

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This is not a simple task if you don't have any experience with Acrobat JS.

The full documentation is available here: Adobe - Acrobat Developer Center | Adobe Developer Connection

Joel Geraci

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You are missing the close quote in your code.

var f = this.getField("Signature of Employer or Authorized Person");

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amretn71955851Author

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I missed that while posting the question here ... wasn't copying from the code ...

Have it exactly like this in my code:

var f = this.getField("Signature of Employer or Authorized Person");

Still doesn't work.

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