Changing the .rotation of all widgets of a form text field in a multipage document

Question

I used the elegant script at https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/script-that-applies-f-setaction-to-text-fields-with-specific-names-using-some-type-of-wildcard/m-p/15452287#M516095 to successfully rotate my form text fields 90°, but I must be missing something about how to iterate this over all of the pages in the document. It is only acting on the first page of the document. Do I need to push the widgets for each field to an array? Is there a way to use javascript to "duplicate the fields across pages" as in the right-click field menu? Thank you for any advice.

var pRot = this.getPageRotation();

for (var i=0; i<this.numFields; i++) {
var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i));
if (f==null) continue;
if (f.type=="text") {
f.rotation = pRot + 90;
}
}

I also tried this -

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
var pRot = this.getPageRotation(p);
for (var i=0; i<this.numFields; i++) {
var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i));
if (f==null) continue;
if (f.type=="text") {
f.rotation = pRot + 90;
}
}
}

Nesa Nurani · Accepted Answer

Script to add fields and set rotation:var fields = [ {name: "customer", coords: [200, 100, 225, 200]}, {name: "address", coords: [230, 100, 255, 200]}, {name: "city st zip", coords: [260, 100, 285, 200]}];for(var i=0; i<fields.length; i++) { var fData = fields[i]; for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++) {  this.addField(fData.name, "text", p, fData.coords);  this.getField(fData.name + "." + p).rotation = 90;}}

Thom Parker · Answer

Fields don't have page associations. In fact the fields don't exist on pages at all. They exist in a special structure at the document level. What you see on the pages are the widgets. The "getField" function gets the field object, and the properties for the first widget. The other widgets have to be gotten using a modified field name.

If the field is named "TestField" then the first widget is "TestField.0", and the second widget is "TestField.1". The number of widgets is provided in the field's "page" property. If the field has more than one widget, then the page property will be an array of page numbers, one for each widget.

So, your script needs to be modified to get the number of widgets after it acquires the field, then call "getField" for each individual widget. The script could also use the page number to get the correct rotation for page the widget is on.

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