Text Fields Property Name Not Accepting Period

[LNeuman]

When Editing the Text Field Property I'm trying to add a '.' at the end of the field name. However everytime I go to save this field is being stripped out of the name. How can this be changed to allow the text field to save with a . at the end of the name. It saves an '!' as well as a '.' if it's not the last character

[LinSims]

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[LNeuman]

Oops! Yep that would help it's Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

When you say "text field", are you referring to a forms text field?

If yes, generally the name for form fields doesn't have any punctuation, since they are used only by computer technologies to catalog the information within the PDF form itself or correlate to a database.

I don't know of any database program that puts punctuation like periods at the end of the field labels/names.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You can't do that.

The period character is used internally to denote a field that's a part of a bigger group, such as "Field1.A", "Field1.B", "Field1.C", etc., which means there's a group called "Field1" with three fields in it. Then you can access the entire group using just "Field1" and manipulate all the fields under it (to some extent) in a single operation.

So the part that's before the period is the group name, and the part that's after it is the child-field (also known as a "widget") name. Neither can't be empty, of course.

So you need to find some other solution. Why do you want to have a period at the end of the field's name in the first place? Is it for purposes of displaying it to the user in an error message of some kind? If so, I would recommend to use another property, such as the the Tooltip text.