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Acrobat DC - Adding a Page in Middle of Multipage Document with Button Click

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March 8, 2022
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Hello,

We have created a 16 page PDF with fields on each page for the user to fill out (attached).

On page 6 we have a button called Add Circuit Breaker Page. This button has the following JavaScript attached to create a duplicate of the Circuit Breaker Test Report page in the PDF.

var a = this.getTemplate("Circuit Breaker");
a.spawn();
this.calculateNow()

We need the new added page to appear as page 7 in the multipage PDF. Instead, the new page is added at the end of the PDF as page 17 - which we do not want. Is there a way for us to make the button click on page 6 to add the new page on page 7 instead of the end of the document?

Thanks for your help,

Brian

Electrical_MCC_Inspection.pdf

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Correct answer JR Boulay

Replace your script by this one:

var a = this.getTemplate("Circuit Breaker");
a.spawn(6, false, false);
this.calculateNow();

JR Boulay

Community Expert

You should read this, about the Template methods: https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/acrobatsdk/html2015/Acro12_MasterBook/JS_API_AcroJS/Template_methods.htm?rhhlterm=spawn&rhsyns=%20

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OMAR28794375d33l

New Participant

Hi,

I found another soultions on the web and I was able to fix it.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

"var a = this.getTemplate("???");"

You omitted the template name, see example above.

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OMAR28794375d33l

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how do I name the pages, I tried to put the title of the page and it did not work. I also tried to put the number of the page, also did not work. I tried severl options. All did not give me the ablity to regenerate the page or any page.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

There is another thing you should now.

Enjoy! 😉

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OMAR28794375d33l

New Participant

Hi

I tried to follow the formella in your comments for my PDF form for action buttons but it did not work. Is it possible if you can help me with my form?

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BarlaeDC

Community Expert

Hi,

The file attached does not appear to have any code (unless I just missed it), are you able to upload your file with your attempt so that we can provide feedback on the code you created, this forum is for us to help you, not really for us to do the work for you.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

Replace the whole script by:

this.getTemplate("Circuit Breaker").spawn(this.numPages-10, true, false);

It works fine (tested).

Don't ask me why but in this document if the script don't indicate the page number in a relative way the automatic numbering doesn't work. I suppose it's because page 6 and the hidden template page are identical and contain fields with the same name but I'm not sure.

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Electrical_MCC_Inspection_ok.pdf

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Brian234921440g6aAuthor

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@JR Boulay - this worked perfectly! A couple of us have done some testing and not seeing any problems. Thanks for sending the updates script and alignment screenshot!