Auto Fill Today's date into a PDF form

Hi Gilad

I found your script above very useful to autopopulate a field with todays date.

this.addScript("init", "this.getField(\"Today\").value = new Date();");

I wonder if it is possible to lock it after the form has been opened so it doesn't update or change automatically. For example if I have a field with todays date in it using the script above. If I open the form tomorrow the same field would have tomorrow's date. Is there a way of keeping the field to todays date even though the form may be opened again in the future?

Regards,

Michael

If one has the Standard version of Acrobat, you can use the "Open Page" action. And the code could be add to all pages. I would create an initialization function and docuement variable to see if the initialization function has been run.

function Initialize(cDateField) {

if(bInitialized == false || typeof bInitialized == "undefined") {

try{

this.getField(cDateField).value = new Date();

bInitialized = true;

}catch(e) {

bInitialized = false;

} finally {

return bInitialized;

} // end try;

} // end bInitialized false or undefined;

} // end Initialize function;

if(typeof bInitialized == "undefined") var bInitialized = false;

Initialize("MyDateField");

You don't have direct access to the doc-level scripts in your version of Acrobat, but you can set do it via the console.
Run this code:

this.addScript("init", "this.getField(\"Today\").value = new Date();");

Of course, you should have a text field in your file called "Today", set up as a Date field.