Debenu Quick PDF Library - PDF SDK Community Forum : NewFormField title with periods http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 04 May 2026 08:36:53 +0000 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:43:48 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.01 360 www.quickpdf.org/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3435 <![CDATA[Debenu Quick PDF Library - PDF SDK Community Forum]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_images/QPDF_Forum_Title.png http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ <![CDATA[NewFormField title with periods : Hi Bob,this is the user/user-forum...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/newformfield-title-with-periods_topic3435_post13657.html#13657 Author: Ingo
Subject: 3435
Posted: 31 Jan 17 at 10:43PM

Hi Bob,

this is the user/user-forum ;-)
Perhaps it's better to post such things on the official support page of Debenu?

]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:43:48 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/newformfield-title-with-periods_topic3435_post13657.html#13657 <![CDATA[NewFormField title with periods : Ah, I&#039;m learning more about...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/newformfield-title-with-periods_topic3435_post13656.html#13656 Author: BobW
Subject: 3435
Posted: 31 Jan 17 at 10:41PM

Ah, I'm learning more about PDFs all the time!  The period is the delimiter for the parent/child relationship with Form Fields.  That explains why it's not a good character to have in the name.  Still, what I am doing seems to work just fine with the external process that fills in the fields.  I rewrote my program to separate the field names with periods into parent and child, then find the parent, get its index, and add the new form field as a child of that parent. Seems to work great!
]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:41:52 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/newformfield-title-with-periods_topic3435_post13656.html#13656 <![CDATA[NewFormField title with periods : The NewFormField method does not...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/newformfield-title-with-periods_topic3435_post13655.html#13655 Author: BobW
Subject: 3435
Posted: 31 Jan 17 at 9:23PM

The NewFormField method does not accept a period in the title but the SetFormFieldTitle does.  I needed to have a period in the title because the PDFs I am creating are being automatically filled in by another process and the title (name) of the form field is being referenced like a mail-merge and the field names contain titles.

I'm curious as to why periods are not allowed in NewFormField but mostly I'm writing this note so future users searching the forum will find this and see how they can programmatically create a form field with a period in the title.

Thx,

Bob
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