Spawn different page templates from dropdown

Question

Hi I'm currently trying to make a pdf spawn different page templates based on the selections from a dropdown and I can't seem to get it to work:

I have the drop down named "Brief Type 3" containing 5 items with export values from 1-5. I also have a button to receive these values.

I have 5 page templates named 'spawn1', 'spawn2' 'spawn3' 'spawn4' 'spawn5'.

I'm using the following:

var sel = this.getField("Brief Type 3").value;

var templateName = "";

switch (sel) {

case 1 : templateName = "spawn1";

break;

case 2 : templateName = "spawn2";

break;

case 3 : templateName = "spawn3";

break;

case 4 : templateName = "spawn4";

break;

case 5 : templateName = "spawn5";

break;

}

if (templateName != "") {

var t = this.getTemplate(templateName);

t.spawn();

}

What am I doing wrong??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sam

try67 · Accepted Answer

Then you need to change this:t.spawn();To something like this:t.spawn({nPage: event.target.page+1, bOverlay: false});

try67 · Answer

Where did you place the code?Are there any error messages when you run it?If you don't specify any parameters for the spawn method it will spawn the template over the existing first page of the file. It won't create a new page. Is that what you want to happen?

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