NewFormField title with periods

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   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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BobW Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 13 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 64	Post Options Post Reply Quote BobW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: NewFormField title with periods 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

BobW Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 13 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 64	Post Options Post Reply Quote BobW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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!

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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?
	Cheers, Ingo