Same field names synchronises

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 7, 2025
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Hello everyone! I’ve been working on creating a digital product — an interactive PDF — for several months and I’m almost done, but I’ve encountered an unexpected problem. The issue is that the document has the same field names (text fields and checkbox fields) across different pages, which causes them to sync, and changes made in one field affect others.

How can I quickly change the names of these fields to make them unique? Doing it manually is not an option since the document has over 10,000 fields.

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shaktikeshri

Adobe Employee

Hi, You can create a JS script to rename your existing fields using https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/library/jsapiref/index.html

try67

Community Expert

You can't rename fields directly using JS.

try67

Community Expert

The only way is with a script or plugin, such as this (paid-for) tool I've developed:

https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-rename-duplicate-fields-to-unique-fields

Notice that some settings will get lost in the process, specifically any actions associated with the field: Calculation, Validation, Mouse Up, Mouse Enter, etc.

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kiril_1502Author

Participant

Thanks for the information. Earlier on this forum I came across a post in which someone advertised your program for this problem but wrote about the price of 10$. Was it some other program or just a price increase? I would love to buy it but it's a lot of money for me, the average salary in my country is 200$ ☹.

try67

Community Expert

This might have been the price for processing one file, not the entire script, although that is probably outdated.

But contact me privately to discuss it further, please.

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