Page Number in Overflow Leader

[Ryan_Lunka]

I have a two page form with the last field's height set to "Expand to Fit," which allows the form to possibly span over 3 or 4 pages. I have the flowed subform that houses the text field set to an Overflow Leader and Trailer. In the Leader, I would like to retrieve the page number of the current instance of that Leader to place in a text box within the Leader. I've tried playing with the xfa.layout.pageNumber() and the textBox.parent.PageNumber (parent being the Leader/subform). Neither are working. The best I can get is the value of "0" on each page.



Any ideas? I KNOW that there are 2 pages no matter what before the expandable part, so if there is some kind of index number for each instance of the Leader, I could use that too. I've been working mostly with the Layout:ready event.



Thanks for any help!



Ryan D. Lunka

Cardinal Solutions Group

rlunka@cardinalsolutions.com

[#2]

Can you try getting the page numbers at a later time (say doc Ready).

[Ryan_Lunka]

I tried quickly, but couldn't get that to work. I'll play with that some more now that I know for sure docReady is a later event. The weird thing is, this works perfectly fine on another very similar form.



Let me restate my issue again, for better clarification. At the bottom of page 2 is the expandable text field. As that grows onto other pages, I need the overflow leader to display "Page 2.1" then "Page 2.2" etc. I just need something to help me count that second digit.



Thanks.

[#4]

Your technique is right ...it sounds like your timing is wrong.

[Ryan_Lunka]

Figured it out. For reference:



currentPage = xfa.layout.page(this);

this.rawValue = "2." + (currentPage - 2);



This script in the layout:ready event of the text field did it.



Thank you!