Reply To: InDesign changing field names when exporting with hierarchy

Apologies I might not have been too clear, I’ve had head down in this document for far too long.

Interactive PDF form fields. In acrobat the use of hierarchy is helpful when running scripts across a particular set of fields. So instead of calling a script to run across each individual field (e.g. field.1, field.2, field.3) you can call it across the parent (in this case ‘field’) and it will execute on all fields under that parent.

I’ve named the fields in InDesign as per this method but when it is exported to an interactive PDF it adds numbers and in some strange cases, names of other fields in the field name (see example above).

Does this make sense? I’d love to find a cure.