Static Layer on Interactive Indesign Layer not showing

[Sarah25895631rw4t]

I have simple buttons with a rollover effect in InDesign: no destination, just a rollover effect. I just added a static

   

layer ON TOP of the buttons with a simple icon, which needs to show on top of the button, regardless of what the button is doing.  Once it's exported to an interactive PDF, that icon layer hides under the button. Screen shots are attached. Any ideas? 

[BobLevine]

Normal behavior. Interactive items always go to the top of the stack.

Perhaps turn the static item into a button to fake it but that's going to present other issues. Sounds like something that needs complete rethinking.

[JR Boulay]

In InDesign each element is attached to a layer.

This is misleading because in a PDF document this is not the case, form fields "float" on top of everything else including layers.

[Bill Silbert]

Perhaps a workaround would be to to make the button a compound path using the shape of the static icon to create a hole in the button's shape. Then put the static icon on the same layer as the button to exactly fill that hole. This way there is no actual interactivity covering the static icon. This is only theoretical but it would be worth a try.

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

The solution is to hide the button when the layer appears and vice versa.

[Sarah25895631rw4t]

Very helpful- thank you!