Calculated Field - Suddenly All Disappear

Question

I've spent hours editing every individual form field in my pdf creating the appropriate calculations for each one (since there appears to be easy way to do this unless I have a degree in coding).

I've come to find that upon checking those fields again, at some point, the app deleted every single caluclation I created and has rechecked the box "Value is not calculated".... I read that maybe it might've happened because I exited the form view? I was constantly saving the entire time I was working. Why would this be a feature, to remove all of the data/work someone has put in? Is there anyone working on this issue?

try67 · Accepted Answer

This is not normal behavior, of course, and could indicate that something got corrupt in the file.

Did you by any chance edit the code via Edit All JavaScripts at some point?

PS. You hardly need a "degree in coding" to write calculation scripts for Acrobat. Most things are pretty easily done using a pre-defined set of statements. It has the additional benefit that you can perform all the calculations in a single place, so it's easy to fix (or replicate) all the calculations in case anything goes wrong... Might be a good idea to do that in the future if you have a lot of them.

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