Auto-Create a form number when form is opened.

[sportorico]

Hello,

I was wondering if I can auto-create a number to populate in sequence every time I open the form?  For example, Microsoft Word, Excel auto populates the date when the form is open.  I'd like the same functionality when creating a form to auto-populate a number counter each time the form is opened.

Any ideas?

[Former Community Member]

That depends on how the PDF is being created and served to users.

If you are simply putting an interactive PDF form on a file share or a web site, you could attach script to a form event to generate a unique id but it will not be a sequential number. To create a sequentially unique id you will have to call a server process which maintains the sequential number through a call to a persistent store (a database, XML file, flat file, etcetera).

If you are generating the PDF form using LiveCycle (server solution), the server process used for generating the form could call a process as described above.

Steve