How to assign IP address to Textfield

[Former Community Member]

I want to assign the client's (person who is filling in the form) IP Address to a textfield called IPAddress. I know that I have to use a javascript command but I am not sure how to assign a value to the textfield.

[Former Community Member]

I do not believe that you can access the IP address of the client programmatically, but assuming that you did to ssign a value to a field you would use the follow syntax:



fieldname.rawValue = "assigned value";



Note that the fieldname and method/properties are case sensitive.

[_James_J_Gallag]

Has anyone been able to access the IP address of the client by using JavaScript??

[Former Community Member]

You cannot get access to that information from javascript insode of the PDF.

[Former Community Member]

Most probably

PDFs "limited" javascript for designer doesn't allow access outside the PDF for security purposes.



Work Around:

Assuming your displaying your PDF on a website --> if you can, pass the IP address as a parameter to the PDF document.



Example:

http://localhost/yourPDF.pdf?ip=193.65.23.84



In your PDF document javascript:

event.target.URL

// cut your URL parameters up to get what you need



then: fieldname.rawValue = ipExtractedFromURL



Associated methods that will be needed to help you out.

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