Loading the same JavaScript into many PDF fields in Acrobat

Question

I have a custom calculation script that I want to load into two dozen fields on a single page. Adding it to each field one at a time is a colossal pain, especially since I'm still developing the script and need to do it often.

Is there a less painful way to handle this? Does Acrobat have an option to add a script to many fields simultaneously? Or a way to put the script in one central "place" (in Acrobat, or the doc, or even externally) and have the fields pull the script from that place?

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UPDATE: I ended up using TinyTask to record a screen macro for inserting scripts. That way, I could insert a script by clicking a field and press my hotkey. That allowed me to add 38 scripts in under 5 minutes. Not the solution I was going for, but it's much better and faster than doing it 100% manually.

try67 · Answer

In the future I recommend you post in the Acrobat forum. This one is a bit of a no-man's-land...

Anyway, the answer is yes. You can apply the same script to multiple fields using a for-loop.

However, it's better if you only apply a call to a function and then place the function itself as a doc-level script.

That will mean you will only need to update it in a single location in the future, instead of updating each field.

To do that is quite easy. You can use something like this:

var fields = ["A", "B", "C", "D"];
for (var i in fields) this.getField(fields[i]).setAction("Calculate", "myCalcFunction();");

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