buttons showing up over pop-ups - fixes don't work

[natalief70321548]

I'm building an interactive PDF and I am having an issue with a button showing in front of a pop-up window (which is itself a button). 

I understand that there is a bug regarding stacking order in InDesign and I have employed all workarounds that were suggested through various sources (order of which buttons are made, setting the tab order, editing the order in Acrobat, plus ensuring all my software is up-to-date) and the problem is that the button does appear behind the pop-up, but it only happens once. If I close the pop-up and click the button to open it again, the button returns to the front. 

I figured out a workaround to hide the button when the pop-up is activated and then to show it when the pop-up is closed, but I'm preparing to make a file with several buttons per page and applying all these show/hide button actions to each button is going to be tedious. 

Have there been any updates to this situation?

[Bernd Alheit]

What happens when you create the buttons in Adobe Acrobat, not InDesign?

[Test Screen Name]

Doesn't sound a bug in Adobe software. Form fields and annotations do not have any defined stacking order. This has changed even on dot releases of Acrobat and had differed between Acrobat and Reader at some times. so the bug is one of expectation. Find a solution that does not depend on overlapping visible fields.

[try67]

If you show/hide the fields using a script it will not be too complicated to write one that hides all the other fields on the page when the pop-up is shown, and then show them back when it is hidden. It's even possibly to only show/hide those fields that overlap with the popup, but that's more tricky to calculate.

[katp89960051]

Hi. I've been having the same problem and tearing my hair out BUT I think I've worked it out!

I've got a grid of images with rollover popups. If my popup overlaps the next image in the grid, it automatically goes behind that next image which I DON'T WANT! After weeks of trawling the internet for a solution (and finding none) I have stumbled across the Set Tab Order box (Object>Interactive>Set Tab Order in InDesign CC) which IMO is a complete misnomer as it actually sets the order of objects!

All my buttons appear in the Set Tab Order box. By ordering these in front of the images, my popups now appear in front.

Fingers crossed this helps you!

[Sheila37395924p27b]

I am having the same issue too. I've tried setting the tab order (both ways) and it still happens. I am at my wits end and don't know what to do!

[Test Screen Name]

That’s just good luck. My advice stands: don’t overlap.

[Sheila37395924p27b]

Based on the type of document being created, it is not always possible to "not overlap"  Some of my pop-up windows have a lot of content and extend into the area where the buttons are.  Any more suggestions?