Custom Calculation Script

[Jordan27718208hgs0]

I have a page that has custom calculation scripts. I need that page duplicated an unknown amount of times. It could be once or fifty times. However when I duplicate it, the custom calculation scripts dont change when the forms are automatically renamed.

So the script attached to form A on original page, is the same script for form A on the duplicate page even though the page 2 form has a new name.

Is there a way to have the script automatically change with the new name of the form field?

[Bernd Alheit]

Change the script such that it can handle the new names.

[JR Boulay]

Assuming that you are spawning templates, you should use the bRename parameter as true, then handle the prefix in the field names.

[Jordan27718208hgs0]

This is the script I am using to generate the template page.

var t = this.getTemplate("RawTally");
t.spawn({nPage: this.numPages, bRename: true, bOverlay: false});

The fields are all renamed as new fields, so that part works.

However, the scripts in the calculations, didn't change from page to page. So the field on the new page has "P4" in front of everything except in the calculation script.

var v1 = getField("RawGross.0").value;
var v2 = getField("RawTare.0").value;
var v3 = getField("RawPalletWeight.0").value

event.value = v1 - v2 - v3;

If the script would have auto changed to the below, it would work.

var v1 = getField("P4.RawGross.0").value;
var v2 = getField("P4.RawTare.0").value;
var v3 = getField("P4.RawPalletWeight.0").value

event.value = v1 - v2 - v3;

[JR Boulay]

You need to detect the P number and put it in a variable, for example :

var sPrefix = "P" + this.pageNum-1;
var v1 = getField(sPrefix + ".RawGross.0").value;
var v2 = getField(sPrefix + ".RawTare.0").value;
var v3 = getField(sPrefix + ".RawPalletWeight.0").value
event.value = v1 - v2 - v3;

[Jordan27718208hgs0]

I tried the script you mentioned, and it didnt work. I have attached the document I am working on.

[Bernd Alheit]

To build the field names use the page number and the template name.

[Jordan27718208hgs0]

Bernd Alheit,

I do not understand how to do that. 

[Bernd Alheit]

Read this:

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/how-field-names-spawned-pages-q107598.aspx 

[Jordan27718208hgs0]

Yeah I have still be unable to.

[Jordan27718208hgs0]

I am using the below script for my calculation script: //

var fieldName = event.target.name;
var suffix = fieldName.substring(fieldName.lastIndexOf(".") + 1);
var RawGrossA = getField("RawGrossA." + suffix);
var RawTareA = getField("RawTareA." + suffix);
var RawPalletWeightA = getField("RawPalletWeightA." + suffix);

var result = RawGrossA.value - RawTareA.value - RawPalletWeightA.value;

event.value = result;

I am using the below script for my button: //

var t = this.getTemplate("RawTally");
var XO = t.spawn(this.numPages, true, true);

The new forms on the new page are named P(n).RawTally.(Field Name).

This is a bit too complicated for myself. I can't get the custom calculation script to work on the new pages.

[JR Boulay]

As said above, you must manage prefixes too.

Try this (not tested):

var fieldName = event.target.name.;
var aFieldName = fieldName.split(".");
var suffix = aFieldName.pop();
var prefix = aFieldName.shift();
prefix.slice(1);
var RawGrossA = getField("P" + prefix + ".RawGrossA." + suffix);
var RawTareA = getField("P" + prefix + ".RawTareA." + suffix);
var RawPalletWeightA = getField("P" + prefix + ".RawPalletWeightA." + suffix);

var result = RawGrossA.value - RawTareA.value - RawPalletWeightA.value;

event.value = result;