Help with Scripting forms when...

Hi,

I am new to scripting in adobe professional, I thank anyone in advance for any advice or help they can give me.

I am trying to use the calcuations within the forms that I am putting fields onto.?In the process I discovered that the program the forms are within are attaching a pipe and additional characters after the actual name that I have named them.?So, I am not able to use even the simple calculations within adobe to ''sum'' fields. For example: I named the field ''1_1Text'' and this is what displays when you go into the calculations and pick the fields you want.?But the actual name is ''1_1Text|1234567'' so the calculations will not work.

I take it then I need to use the advanced scripting but I am unsure of the format for a routine such as this.?I have a little knowledge of javascript but it has been awhile.?There must be a scan to find the pipe and then you should be able to chop off the extra characters since I will never know the characters the program adds on so then I can do calculations on these fields. Then you would have to put them into an array or something to save them? Any help with a script or hints would surely be appreciated.

Thanks!

Help with Scripting forms when...

%26gt;For example: I named the field ''1_1Text'' and this is what displays when you go into the calculations and pick the fields you want.?But the actual name is ''1_1Text|1234567''?...

Please clarify, did you name the field ' 1_1Text as stated' or ' 1_1Text|1234567' as explained??

I think you are using the wrong naming convention for field names.

Help with Scripting forms when...

%26gt;%26gt;Please clarify, did you name the field ' 1_1Text as stated' or ' 1_1Text|1234567' as explained?

I named the field ''1_1Text'' as per the standards here.?BUT the program that runs these forms attaches additional characters onto the name I gave it.?So, the name ends up to be ''1_1Text|1234567''?the program attaches the ''|1234567'' at the end of my name.?So I believe I could write scripts if I could strip off the extra string the program puts on the end.?At least I hope.

Does this make sense??Or still not clear?

After crreating forms in Acrobat for 14 years, I have never seen this in Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer when manually adding fields.

Could explain more fully how you are creating your forms and what programs you are using from the creation of the base document to which program and how you are adding fields.

Could explain more fully how you are creating your forms and what programs you are using from the creation of the base document to which program and how you are adding fields.

It looks like you VB, ASP, or SQL database is modifying the field names.

Right, that is what I said.?I wanted to find out if I could create a routine to strip off these extra characters within the custom calculation script before I did the calcuations or is this impossible??If so, some help with the code would be appreciated.