Add date to pdf when saved

[kimh20816669]

I have a pdf document hosted on my website. I want to be able to have the date added when it is printed and/or saved by an individual after they open it. If they saved the document to their own personal computer, I would like it to have the date on it when they saved it so if they open it again 3 weeks later, it still has the date when they originally saved the document.

[try67]

You can use the document's Will Print and Will Save events to populate a field with the current date, if that field is empty.

[kimh20816669]

what does that code look like?  This?

var f = this.getField("Today");

f.value = util.printd("mmm/d/yyyy", new Date());

[try67]

Almost. If you only want the field to be populated once then use this:

var f = this.getField("Today");

if (f.valueAsString=="") f.value = util.printd("mmm/d/yyyy", new Date());

[kimh20816669]

is it the same for both the Will Save and Will Print events?

[kimh20816669]

I would like the date to populate every time it is opened from our website.

[try67]

Yes, it's the same code.

If you want the code to run when the file is opened then you should put it as a doc-level script.

But if you do that it doesn't make sense to put it also in the Will Print and Will Save events, unless you use a different field for each one.