Auto date fill in

[peterr70275703]

I have a declared date field in an Acrobat form that I want populated as a default with the current date (though it should also be editable). I put Date() in the Calculate field on the form but that doesn't work. Any ideas?

[Thom Parker]

Do you want this set when the PDF is opened, in all cases? Or is there a situation where is should not change?

Remove the calculation script.

Here is some code that will set the field to the current date when it is opened, but only if the field is blank.

Place this code in a document script and change the field name to your date field, and change the formatting to the date format you want.

var fld = this.getField("MyDate");

if(fld.value = "")

  fld.value = util.printd("dd-mm-yy",new Date());

[peterr70275703]

Thanks. I put this script in the Custom calculation script of my date

field, but it didn't work. Now what?

Peter Redwood

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Thom Parker <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[Thom Parker]

Don't use a calculation script.  The code was for a document script.

Here is an old article on entering document scripts, There have been some changes in the Acrobat UI, but most of the article is still acurate

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/js_document_scripts

Look up "Document JavaScripts" in the tool search

[peterr70275703]

Looks tricky, but I'll give it a try. Thanks.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:01 PM Thom Parker <forums_noreply@adobe.com>