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nowackem
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October 19, 2021
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Anchor links within a Designer form, is this possible?

  • October 19, 2021
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Good Morning,

I would like to add Anchor Links to Jump to a Specific Part/Section of a form. Like an HTML page can or how cross referencing works in Word. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Emilee

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Best answer by Kosta_Prokopiu1

Hi @nowackem ,

well, sort of. There is the setFocus() function which would move the focus to a field somewhere. BUT you must use an interactive field to jump to. If you want to use pages the you need to do the bookmark approach @girishbedekar showed you.

I have a quick example with both in it. See if that helps you...

Re: Anchor links within a Designer form, is this possible?

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GirishBedekar
Level 8
October 19, 2021

Yesss 

Google  for bookmarks in  live cycle designer 

    nowackem
    nowackemAuthor
    Level 5
    October 19, 2021

    This will make bookmarks when you open the form in Acrobat, however the user still has to know where to find them and open that side panel to use them. If I could force the initial view to open that panel that would be ok but that is all greyed out. What I really want is to have a list of text links at the top of the page (on the page) to link to different sections of the document. Is that possible? Thank you!!

      Kosta_Prokopiu1
      Adobe Employee
      Kosta_Prokopiu1Adobe EmployeeAccepted solution
      Adobe Employee
      October 19, 2021

      Hi @nowackem ,

      well, sort of. There is the setFocus() function which would move the focus to a field somewhere. BUT you must use an interactive field to jump to. If you want to use pages the you need to do the bookmark approach @girishbedekar showed you.

      I have a quick example with both in it. See if that helps you...

      Re: Anchor links within a Designer form, is this possible?

        nowackem
        nowackemAuthor
        Level 5
        October 19, 2021

        To summarize - @girishbedekar had a great idea with the bookmarks which I may use on a different form but for this example, I needed a different approach. I was able to use @kosta_prokopiu1 's approach with the setFocus() function and make what I was calling my anchor links into a button then setting focus for them to the first interactive field in the section I wanted to link to and it works very well. Thank you both for your input, you got me there. 🙂

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          ettenna1297
          January 5, 2022

          I'm looking to do the same thing.  Can you please share the examples you have?  Thank you

          nowackem
          nowackemAuthor
          Level 5
          January 5, 2022

          @ettenna1297  Below is a link to the file where I created "Anchor" buttons to simulate HTML Anchor Links. 

          https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YM_WQHCCuq-nSeV89epdMqt4LoWwzw6q?usp=sharing

           

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