Trying to locate duplicate form fields

[fogharty]

I am troubleshooting an Acrobat form with a lot of Yes/No checkboxes. I've created separate group names for each set of boxes, but apparently there are duplicates somewhere, for when I tried to make copies of the fields (to edit afterwards) I got the message "Cannot create multiple copies of this selection. One or more fields in the selection have duplicated in this form."

So I searched the community here and found a javascript to locate duplicate fields:

for (var i=0; i<this.numFields; i++) {
    var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i));
    if (f==null) continue;
    if (f.type=="text" && typeof f.page=="object") {
        console.println(f.name + ":" + f.page);
    }
}

and ran it in the Javascript Consol/Debugger, but I would get the error message:

SyntaxError: syntax error
1:Console:Exec
undefined

so am I doing something wrong? 

Each button already has a run javascript action on mouse up, could that be interfering somehow?

if (event.shift) event.target.value = "Off"

 Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

Select the whole code and execute it.

The code will find duplicate form text fields.

[Thom Parker]

You'll find a tutorial here on using the console window:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free_Videos.cfm#JSIntro

[fogharty]

Ok, I ran it and it came back with "undefined" so that would mean no duplicate fields?

[Bernd Alheit]

Then you have no duplicate text fields.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Correct. You can remove this part of the code (which I believe I wrote, by the way) to process all fields, not just text fields:

f.type=="text" && 

However, this means that it will list all radio-buttons and check-boxes which have more than one widget in the group.

To avoid that you can replace the above with this:

f.type!="radiobutton" && f.type!="checkbox" &&

Then it will report about duplicate fields of all other types, except those two.