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I would like to be able to create a date time field in a form that displays a message like "Select a date" until the user clicks to choose the date. Is something like this possible in Adobe Acrobat 2017? If so, how?
Here's one of my "Band-Aid" Acrobat remedies.
If you still need to use the date picker and need the "Select a date" (or siomilar) message to be displayed for the user, you can insert text in the page and place the text field on top of it.
Then use a custom calulation script to change the field properties for the color; change between transparent to white based on a condition.
This is what I'm using :
if (event.value !="") {event.target.fillColor = color.white}
else event.target.fillColor = c
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Not if the Format setting of the field is set to Date...
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Here's one of my "Band-Aid" Acrobat remedies.
If you still need to use the date picker and need the "Select a date" (or siomilar) message to be displayed for the user, you can insert text in the page and place the text field on top of it.
Then use a custom calulation script to change the field properties for the color; change between transparent to white based on a condition.
This is what I'm using :
if (event.value !="") {event.target.fillColor = color.white}
else event.target.fillColor = color.transparent
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