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Anonymous

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Script to change date field format

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May 10, 2016
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I have several forms each eith 20 to 30 fields which have no formatting and are just text fields. I want to programmatically change all fields with name containing "date" to mm/dd/yyyyy format. Is this possible?

I am new to Adobe scripting but I know some javascript. I could not find a method to change the field format from Adobe's JS guide and some quick internet searches did not yield anything that I could work on.

PDF Automation Station

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Colin Flashman

Community Expert

Late to the party here but I think I have an answer and it lies in a linked reference:

http://www.acrotex.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pdfblog_22.pdf

It goes into great detail how to apply formatting to a date field.

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

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Dieter296782539y20

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The acrotex site is down. Does anyone have some other source?

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Julio383019995re4

New Participant

I guess this one is the same: https://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/PDFBlog/pdfblog_22.pdf

I have attached it to this post.

Regards,

--Julio

pdfblog_22.pdf

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maxwyss

Brainiac

You can not directly change the field format using JavaScript. But you can add a format script using the setAction() method. This method allows to add a JavaScript to a list of events of the Field processing event sequence.

What you'd have to know, however, is where the Date Object comes from (be it a variable, or be it just "now"). The example below assumes that the current date should be used.

In order to set the format of the date, we use the util.printd() method.

Example; you would run this code from the Console while the document is open.

this.getField("date").setAction("Format", "event.value = util.printd(\"mm/dd/yyyy\", new Date() ) ;") ;

And that should get you on the way.

Hope this can help.

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Anonymous

Max, thanks for the response. I made some progress but I am stuck with this:

var mymatch = new RegExp("date");

for (var i = 0; i < this.numFields; i++) {

var fname = this.getNthFieldName(i);

if (mymatch.test(fname)) {

var f = this.getField(fname)

f.setAction({cTrigger: "Format", cScript: "AFDate_Format(\"mm/dd/yyyy\")"});

f.setAction({cTrigger: "Keystroke", cScript: "AFDate_Keystroke(\"mm/dd/yyyy\")"});

}

It sets the fields as date fields but the format is "m/d". Not "mm/dd/yyyy". Any ideas?

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Anonymous

OK, that explains the RegExp… you still could use something like

if (fname.toLowerCase().indexOf("date") >= 0)

It would be a long shot but try the direct syntax (not using the cTrigger / cScript)

You might also see whether it really inserts code by using something like app.beep() as script.

I may be wrong, but it is possible that if both, the Keystroke and the Format scripts are set, the date format dialog may appear instead of the custom script dialog.

cTrigger / cScript work. For example:

f.setAction({cTrigger: "Format", cScript: "AFSpecial_Format(0);"});

f.setAction({cTrigger: "Keystroke", cScript: "AFSpecial_Keystroke(0);"});

These set the field to Zip format and it works well. Similarly the following set it as Phone number format.

f.setAction({cTrigger: "Format", cScript: "AFSpecial_Format(3);"});

f.setAction({cTrigger: "Keystroke", cScript: "AFSpecial_Keystroke(3);"});

It is the double quotes enclosing "mm/dd/yyyy" that seems to create the problem.

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