How to bulk rename form fields with unique names?

Hi Joe,

There is no clean easy way to do that, even with a script. To save a little time when you rename the fields manually, you can leave the field Property dialog box open and just click on each field to change the name so you don't have to open the Properties dialog again for every field.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri

WindJack Solutions

www.pdfscripting.com

You can't 'rename' fields but you can get the same result by recreating the fields with a different name for each field then removing the original fields. Run this script in the console to accomplish this:

for (var i=0;i<200;i++)
{
try{
var rct=this.getField("Name1."+i).rect;
var pg=this.getField("Name1."+i).page;
this.addField("name."+i,"text",pg,rct);
}catch(e){break}
}
this.removeField("Name1");

David's script will rename the fields so that is good. But if you have added any other Properties to the fields (font, size, color, etc) those will get lost and all the new fields will have Acrobat's Current Default Properties for a text field. If you just used the default Properties then this should work.

Dimitri

WindJack Solutions

www.pdfscripting.com

Dimitri is correct that default properties will be used and I assume that's what was done. You can program any other properties like this:

    for (var i=0;i<200;i++)
    {
    try{
    var ts=this.getField("Name1."+i).textSize;
    var tf=this.getField("Name1."+i).textFont;
    var rct=this.getField("Name1."+i).rect;
    var pg=this.getField("Name1."+i).page;
    var f=this.addField("name."+i,"text",pg,rct);
    f.textSize=ts;
    f.textFont=tf;
    }catch(e){break}
    }

this.removeField("Name1");

As was mentioned, if you do it within Acrobat then you lose some of the settings associated with the fields (such as custom actions, format, validation, calculation, etc.), but the rest of the properties can be maintained.

I have developed a script that does that for you, exactly for this situation: Acrobat -- Rename Duplicate Fields to Unique Fields

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