Creating a PDF form with table

[Arddy]

Hello all!

Please excuse my lengthy/unclear explanations. I will do my best to paint a clear picture of my issue(s).

Overview

I've currently got a form created that I have made into a 'template' in Acrobat Pro. This form has fillable text fields such as Name, Contact and date.

What I'm looking to do, is have one main page at the front and have a button that says "Create new form". When this is pressed, the template will spawn. Once filled, the main page will automatically have a row filled out like this -

<Name> <Contact> <Date> (Goto Page) (Delete)

(Where (GotoPage) and (Delete) are buttons).

And below that, I'd like a button that says "New form". Pressing this will spawn another template, and automattically fill this next row. And visa versa, the Delete buttons will delete that template and row.

I need help with

I've got the template form ready, and I know how to spawn and delete pages.

However, how do I, on the main page, create that dynamic row of text boxes that fills, deletes, and reshuffles itself?

I appreciate any and all help given. And please, if I wasn't able to make clear of my issues/intent, let me know.

Kind regards,

[Test Screen Name]

You might imagine a really complicated solution, with loads of separate boxes for each potential line, which start out invisible, and where scripts show or hide the elements of the line you want to show. Huge amounts of very repetitive scripting. Yes... that is in fact the only way you could do this, so unless you are infinitely patient I suggest looking for a different model. HTML forms? Excel?

[Arddy]

Thanks very much for your input!

Your suggestion to create it via Excel might be the way to go. I'll look into that.

Just curious, how do people create these forms in PDFs anyways?

[Joel Geraci]

Hire someone. This is a non-trivial exercise.

[Arddy]

I appreciate your input. However, I'd like to see if it is something I can do or try a different approach with the same outcome - it's all about personal/professional development. Hiring someone else is not really on my list.