i'm trying to make a PDF that contains multiple pages with forms that were paper forms. i have imported them into pdf, added text fields and am trying to find ways to fill out these forms quicker.
There is a text field for the DATE on multiple pages. on 1 page i need the dat in this format 200129 =YYMMDD format, and in the other pages i need it as 29-JAN-2020. is there a way i can select date or enter the date in 1 place, maybe in a special text box and link the other ones to get their data from the master text box with the date?
In general, just using the same field name across all pages will cause one to update the value of the others but because you want a different format for the same date value on all pages after number 1, you need to use a calculation. If you make the date on page one the "master", the date field on all subsequent pages can be calculated from that to be the same value. The date fields on all subsequent pages can use the same field name.
If your date field on page one is named "date_1", then add the following code to the other date fields in the field calculation tab...
event.value = this.getField("date_1").value;
You'll then need to use the Acrobat UI to set the format to what you want.
That's it.
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Been banging my head against the keyboard on this one.
I'm trying to create a dynamic Line Graph based on the below data and I'd like to avoid using VBA, if possible:
The "Title" column is the clients to display and the Date values make up the lines. There could be 3 clients or there could be 12. It varies. There are formulas going 30 rows down from the title row all the way through to "26-Dec" pulling from a raw data list, so those blank rows below TMKOMS actually have formulas in them.
I want a dynamic range that includes only the clients that are visible in the Title column.
On the Line Graph, I want a way to be able to select which client(s) to display (ie. drop-down boxes, check boxes or something).
I also need the Date range of values to dynamically capture "3-Jan" up to the year-to-date (eg. "21-Mar"), so that the Line Graph will only display up to 21-Mar. It would also be nice to have a way for users to select any one of the dates from a drop-down, but if the drop-down is blank, the dynamic range reverts to the year-to-date automatically.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I ended up solving all this by breaking down and using VBA to set autofilters.
I am trying to create an Access database that can be used to store, create, and update slightly different versions of the same report. There are currently 190 records in one field containing what will be the body text (long text data type), and each of those fields will be stored in that table 11 times (one for each different version of the report). These all need to be that way because all of the fields will need to be updated at-will, and then reflected in the report.
The problem is this: I need each of the text fields to be formatted a certain way (bulleted lists, letter lists, headings, body paragraphs) based on criteria. My original thought was to specify and define those criteria in another table and then link it to the report table, but I'm not sure if that will work.
I currently have a query that pulls all of the text fields from one version of the report, but I can't figure out how to format correctly. How would I go about including lists/paragraphs/headings into a report?
Edit: Records, not fields
I am using Access 2013 and I am trying to create a chart report on one of my reports based on a table. There are about 30 fields in this table. The first field ID is auto number and there is another Customer ID which is set to number, the rest are all "long text" (such as name, review and etc) When I went to the form design and created the chart, at the step which it asked me to choose the fields I need, there were only two available fields - ID and customer ID - available, none of the rest popped up(like the customer name and other stuff)
Is there anything I did wrong? I recall I have made this happen in the old version. And I also realized that there is no pivotchart or table view options in 2013 anymore. Is this because the version thing please/
Thanks, any help and advice will be appreciated.
Do you really need more than 255 Characters for fields such as Customer Name? I think you need to change the datatypes of the fields you would like to include in the chart. Think about a field in a chart that used the max of a long text field.
From the MS Office website "In Access web apps, the Long Text field can store up to 2^30-1 bytes"
My guess is that access does not allow Long Text fields to appear in charts because of the most logic use case for charts, which does not involve the possibility of using a field that is THAT big.
Anyway, try fitting your data in short text fields. If that is too small, then here is a link to increase the size of your short text fields to 4000
Using Word 2010
We're creating a form in Word for leave applications. We have chosen all the relevant text fields to be filled out, and of course date fields.
We want the form to be able to be completed either digitally (using the date field) or printed and filled out. That is where the issue comes in because it fills the field in with a place-holder date.
I have contemplated creating a script that when printing, checks if the field has the placeholder date, if so, delete's it before printing.
Is there another way to have the date empty until filled in. Is there a format for a normal text box which could force a format similar to DD/MM/YYYY?
How to compare 2 infopath documents craeted using double data entry system for
differences ?
We have a small project contains few infopath forms. Client is using double data entry system to reduce the errors. We are maintaining entry number in infopath form to seperate each entry.
Note: I know we can compare xml data
files of 2 documents. (xml data file
has field names like field1,field2 and
so on..while on form that field1
represent some meaninngful text) But
the question is we want to compare it
Visually side by side. Any difference
should highlight the field.
The easiest way I can think of is to use a different "comparison" form (instead of trying to alter the original). The new form can have two columns - two fields for each original field. You can load the two documents to compare into datasources (even make fields at the top which prompt for which two docs to compare). One shows in the left column and another in the right. Then just use conditional formatting to highlight where the first column doesn't match the second, or even hide the fields where they are identical so only the differences are visible.
If you want to get really fancy you can even let the user specify or change the values on the form and have them save back to the originals or create another new "merged" version.