Conditional number of repeated sections in acrobat form

[ray_den]

I have an Acrobat form which includes a page of questions that need to be answered (using radio buttons) once or up to ten times.  Can I enter the number of times it is to be repeated, then only show that page that number of times?  I have tried to research this but without success.

[try67]

Are you talking about showing the full page X times, or the radio-button fields? Either is possible, using a script, but the scripts needed for either one are quite different.

[ray_den]

Thank you for your respone.  I would want the full page X times.  The form is a safety check list of 20 questions for home gas appliances (eg pass, fail), so a home may have 1 or up to 10, say, gas appliances. I can enter the number of appliances up front (eg 3), and then would the questions page to be completed three times, with the first question identifying the particular appliance followed by the 20 pass/fail questions. 

[ray_den]

Just to be clear in response to your question, the form has some general information (address etc) and then one of more pages of the appliance details and the 20 pass/fail questions for that appliance, with radio button responses, and then some concluding questions.   

[Thom Parker]

Use a page template.  Search the Acrobat forums for "spawn page template" You'll find lots of code.

[ray_den]

Thank you for that. I have done this research, but I am unable to find how I create and manage the template. It is also not clear to me what a template is.  Is it just a page?  I am using Acrobat XI, and as far as I can see there is no reference to templates anywhere in the app.  

[Thom Parker]

A page template is a regular pdf page that has been marked as a template. Once marked it can be spawned into many different pages, all of which will be identical to the original. 
To create a page template open the "Organize Pages" Tools.  Select the page you want to turn into template and then select the "Page Templates" menu item from the "More..." menu. 

[try67]

In XI it's under Document Processing, actually:

[Thom Parker]

Thanks, I only do DC these days.  Nice how the UI changes completly with each new version. At least those days are gone, I hope. 

[try67]

I guess you didn't see yet the "wonderful" new feature that switched the locations of the Tools and Pages/Bookmarks/etc. panels in DC...

[Thom Parker]

I don't think I've been updated, but I did see that in a screen shot somewhere.  There's always gotta be something.  At least it's not a complete redo.