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Merging Documents with Duplicate Form Fields

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Topic: Merging Documents with Duplicate Form Fields

Posted By: CASheaCo
Subject: Merging Documents with Duplicate Form Fields
Date Posted: 29 Sep 11 at 8:36PM

I am working on merging a document with form fields into a base document with also has form fields via the MergeDocument(DocumentID) function.

The base document has some duplicated field names. Therefore when I list all the fields I get:

Field0

Field1

Field1.

Field2

There are fields with the same name in the document to be merged as the base document, such as

FieldA

Field1

FieldB

After I merge the documents the field list looks something like

Field0

Field1

Field1.

Field2

FieldA

Field1

FieldB

While I expected the list to look like:

Field0

Field1

Field1.

Field1.

Field2

FieldA

FieldB

If I save the merged document (via QuickPDF), open it in Adobe and save it, reopen it with QuickPDF it get the list as I expected. Saving and reopening with QuickPDF does not get be the expect list.

What do I need to do, using QuickPDF, to get the field that is merged into the document to act like a duplicate field?

Thanks,

Replies:

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 01 Oct 11 at 7:13PM

Hi!

It's not easy (or impossible) to handle properly with duplicate fieldnames.
Why not add the pagenumber or something else while working with the documents?

Cheers, Ingo