Java Script app.doc.save()

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March 28, 2017
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I put the following java script in my PDF, but it doesn't work.

There is a mistake in the marked line..

Can anybody help me?

allgood();

function allgood()

{

var mel;

mel=""

for (var i=0;i<this.numFields;i++)

{

var fName=this.getNthFieldName(i);

var f=this.getField(fName);

if ((f.type != "button") && f.required && (f.value.length<1))

{

mel=mel + fName + ", ";

}

if (mel==""){

app.doc.save();

}

else

{app.alert("Please fill all required fields before saving!");

}

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There's a slightly bigger question here, which is: what made you think that app.doc.save was the right thing to do? This is worth pursuing. I'm guessing one of two things: you found this in a sample for some other flavour of JavaScript; or you guessed. Some languages will give in easily to this approach, but for Acrobat JavaScript you need the documentation. Not only because of finding the method names but for the many complex notes and security warnings which will make this sort of task more painful than you can imagine.

Specific things to watch out for.

* app doesn't have a "doc" property, because you can have multiple documents open. There is app.activeDocs, but note the complex limitations. In some methods, not others, you can use "this" for the current document. Read up on "this"
* document doesn't have a "save" method.
* writing files from JavaScript is a security nightmare, so there are lot of complex restrictions on the use of saveAs.