Text Fields with the same name - stopped working

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September 22, 2016
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Hi,

It used to be you could have the same named Text Field on pages, so users can carry through content. I cannot get this to work now. What's changed? anybody else having the issue? how can overcome this?

Take the attached very basic PDF as test (I can't believe we can't attach files - here's a WeTransfer link - WeTransfer

Two pages. Page one with the text field name of name: TF1, page two with the text field name of name: TF1. In the past this has worked fine, however now it will not allow it, and automatically is creating different field names upon opening the file in Acrobat Pro. Yet, it also will not allow me to rename the Text fields through Acrobat Pro, i get the following error.

Any ideas??

Thanks,

Phil

(Posted in acrobat forum too, unsure where the problem lies)

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Utkarsh Negi

Inspiring

Hello philbanks76,

You are correct, if we name two text fields with same name it will copy the data from one to another. However, the above error message suggests that there are two different types of field with same name, that is why you are facing this issue. Can you please go through your document and check if the both the fields are of same type. Please let us know if that is the case and provide an update so that we can work on this.

Regards