Form design in InDesign

[dd73793609]

Designing a form in InDesign and looking to create a header with a few text fields. When the user inputs the information on the first page, it will appear on all following pages. Please note, I am creating the interactive form by Exporting as Adobe PDF (Interactive). Hoping to achieve this in InDesign vs. preparing the form in Acrobat. Thanks in advance for any tips.

[Jeffrey_Smith]

As long as the form field is named the same, it can be placed on multiple pages, and the input entered on page one will be entered on all subsequent forms/pages.

[dd73793609]

Thanks however, this does not seem to be working... I wish I could post a sample file

[Jeffrey_Smith]

The area in which you can re-name a form field is shown in screen capture. You would select the bottom form field, and name it the same as the top form field.

[dd73793609]

Yes what you have shown above is great and that is exactly how I have done it. However, the fields do not work in sync..???

[Jeffrey_Smith]

You will only see the form input once exported as PDF and viewed in Acrobat/Reader. Are you viewing in an application other than Acrobat/Reader ?

[dd73793609]

yes Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

[Jeffrey_Smith]

I just viewed my test in Acrobat Pro DC and it works as expected.

Do you want to share file via attaching it to an email ?

[dd73793609]

yes

[dd73793609]

email not going through -- remote server is misconfigured.

[Jeffrey_Smith]

Looking at your files, I am seeing the same result, form fields names are appending: txt_branch_office1, txt_branch_office2, etc. And it appears to be a reported issue.

The workaround solutions that I can offer are either rename the form fields in Acrobat. Or, create Indesign document in CS6 where the form field names are not affected with this issue.

[dd73793609]

Thanks so much for your time in looking at this -- Hoping Adobe can come out with a patch or fix to this InDesign glitch

[vinny38]

Just a silly guess...

are you sure you removed the space after the button name?