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InDesign changing field names when exporting with hierarchy

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    • September 29, 2013 at 10:10 pm #65551
      Grayson Bartlet
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      Is InDesign meant to change field names when they are exported with hierarchy?

      All of my fields in are having numbers and letters added to them when exported. One example is a field that has been named main.int.nooshCode and in the PDF it is named main.remBtn37.nooshCode.

      What’s going on?

    • October 1, 2013 at 4:16 pm #65592
      Grayson Bartlet
      Participant

      No one knows anything about this?

      It seems like it automatically numbers fields created with hierarchy but only to the first level.

    • October 1, 2013 at 4:19 pm #65593
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Are you talking about pdf form buttons? Other buttons? Not sure what hierarchy you’re talking about.

    • October 1, 2013 at 10:45 pm #65596
      Grayson Bartlet
      Participant

      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.

    • October 2, 2013 at 11:09 am #65613
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Wow, no I don’t know what could be going on there. I see it, too. But it only happens when there is a dot (period) in the button name, I think!

      • October 3, 2013 at 9:43 pm #65631
        Grayson Bartlet
        Participant

        You’re right David, the period denotes hierarchy in Acrobat. Something is happening when it exports.

        My fields are having numbers added immediately after the period. What would make sense is that if you simply named your field and left a period at the end (e.g. “field.”) that it would automatically number the field but this is not the case. I tried a few other combinations also but can’t seem to quite work out the system.

        Does anyone have more insight into this? There has to be method to this madness.

    • November 20, 2013 at 8:56 pm #66241
      Grayson Bartlet
      Participant

      No comments? Anyone with interactive forms experience using InDesign in their workflow?

      I surely can’t be the only one who has run into this issue?

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