PDF Form spawned page reset fields only on spawned page

[SGL-L]

Hi experts, trying to reset form fields but only on the spawned page using a 'button'.  Right now it resets both spawned and original page.  Thanks for any assistance! 

[Bernd Alheit]

Have you renamed the form fields on the spawned page?

[SGL-L]

Hi Bernd, yes. It is a hidden template, I had renamed all the hidden template fields to start with "P0.templatename.fieldname".  I now see on the spawned page, all fields are renamed to "P2.templatename.P0.templatename.fieldname"

[Bernd Alheit]

Why does you use this form field names on the template page? 

[SGL-L]

I read on another forum page that you should rename hidden template fields to the "P0..." format.  Was this not correct?

[Bernd Alheit]

Yes 

[Thom Parker · Accepted solution]

In order to reset only the fields on a spawned page you need to use a script that dynamically works out the name of the fields to reset. 

For example. If the button is named "Reset". Then on the spawned page it will be named "P#.TemplateName.Reset".

If you were to hard code the reset field names, then you would need to run this script.

this.resetForm( "P#.TemplateName");

To generalize the code so that it works on any template page, the script needs to extract the template prefix from the name of the reset button. Like this:

var strPrefix = event.targetName.split(".").splice(0,2).join(".");

this.resetForm(strPrefix);

[SGL-L]

Thom, thank you so much!  Works perfectly 🙂

[Thom Parker]

You're welcome!  A best Answer would be helpful. 

[SGL-L]

My apologies, I clicked the wrong one!  Fixed now.  Thanks again 🙂

[Diana23803581pg79]

Thom this worked beautifully for the single page form that I needed to spawn from a template and clear the fields. Can you share how this would work with a multipage form? I use this code to spawn the two page form: 

var expTplt = getTemplate("CIP1") ; expTplt.spawn(pageNum+1,true,false) ;

var expTplt = getTemplate("CIP2") ; expTplt.spawn(pageNum+1,true,false) ;