Using a page template and spawn, but I don't want one particular field to be renamed to the new page...

I found this old discussion trying to figure out the same thing, and to be honest, the correct answer marked in this thread is a workaround that does not addresses the original inquiry.

I am struggling with a row of six text fields and a hidden image field that I must keep with the same field name after spawning the pages as it appears in both the source document page and the template page because of the dependent fields calculations.

I need these six fields not to be pre-fixed after the spawning is executed.

For example, I have a button with a mouse up event script that will take the values from only one field in the source document and populate the other five fields next to it with different chunks of data extracetd from the source field object of the main document. 

This is a PDF project that try67 has been assisting me with since I joined the forums about a year ago, and spawining is the last phase of this project.

These are government forms and each of the spawned forms has to be digitally signed individually which is extremely time consuming for the approver who has to sign over 10, 15 or more of these forms one by one.

The idea is to click on that button and extract the distinguished name of the digital certificate to one field, the signature date to another field, the common name of that certificate with the EDIPI number to another field, and the hidden image field to become visible when this button is clicked.

I already have  this working fine and great. But as the spawned pages rename  all the fields I end up loosing that functionality for those fields on each spawned page.

Replying to my original post in hopes that everyone sees this...

Would it be possible instead to write a script that, say, finds all of the spawned fields and renames them?

For example, the field in question is named "PageTotal" and when spawned, turns into "P2.Narrative.PageTotal" or "P3.Narrative.PageTotal" where "Narrative" is what I named by template.

So I would need the script to find all of the P2, P3, and on boxes and rename them back to PageTotal.

Possible? Or no lol.

BTW I appreciate all of the input I am getting. This is really helping me further understand coding.

Great tip George!

Ones has 2 templates. One has the fields to be renamed and this page is spawned with rename trkue and overlay false. The second template has the field not to be renamed and is spawned with rename false and overlay true.

There is no such exemption. What you can do is spawn it with the renamed

fields, then delete them and add copies of the original field on the new

pages.