/t5/acrobat-discussions/stamp-not-working-please-help/td-p/12019548May 06, 2021
May 06, 2021
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I'm new here however, I'm working with an existig stamp and code done by someone else. When I post the stamp, the dialog pops up for me to select one checkbox and input text in to 5 text boxes. The other 2 text boxes on the dialog (name, date) are prepopulated (via the code) . When I click Ok, the stamp only displays the current date and output from one selection. It is supposed to display:
The checkbox I clicked
The text I entered in the correspoinding fields
And the prepopulated name should carryover as well.
The radio-buttons in the stamp file itself should be named "Action" for your current code to work. You can name the ones in the dialog whatever you want (as long as its 4 characters). The two are not related.
Someone edited the code in the file via the Edit All JavaScripts command, which you should never do (despite its name), and it completely messed it up. I hope you have an earlier version of this file saved, as fixing this issue is not always possible.
I do. The task is to edit or update the stamp. So I suppose the question is how is the best way to do that? I took the flat image.pdf of the stamp and copied then modified the code from the old stamp in to it.
Do not edit the code via Edit All JavaScripts! Nor should you copy it from there, as it includes a bunch of tags that you shouldn't enter anywhere else.
Copy the code from each field and place it under one field.
You'll need to adjust all the instances of event.value to this.getField("").value, though.
And don't reply by email. It includes all your private info in the signature and posts it to the forum.
So I opened both stamp files and copied code from the textfield properties of the field (it contained all of the code, btw) in to the appropriate field in new stamp (properties, calculate, custom calulated script, edit. deleted existing code and replaced w/pasted code from old stamp).
Edited pasted code (in that window). I changed stamp name, added 2 new jsadmdlg1 variables and 2 new getfield lines
Saved file and closed acrobat
Reopend and tried
When I placed stamp the old dialog appeared and when I clicked Ok, the new dialog appeared w/o any of the data I entered.
I created a new stamp file and copied all of the code to one field. Then I edited code to reflect the new fields and stamp name.
When the stamp is placed, the dialog appears, yet when I fill it out, ONLY one field is captured. I don't understand. The "old" stamp that contains the code works. Why is the data input not showing up on the new stamp?
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