Looking for a way to detect whether a document has been changed

[Nico_Weyens]

We have a document with a "validate" button.

Pressing this button performs several validations and the result will be : "validated" or "not validated"

The result is being displayed to the end user as a document status (with it's own color).

Once the new "status" = "validated", the status should be automatically reset to "not validated" when the user makes 1 of more change to the document.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Is there a sort of document status you can fetch?

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

I'd say it is possible. You could propogate a enter event and an exit event and compare the values of the field before and after. If there is a change in values then change the status.

You would set up a script object with an enter function first and then an exit function.

Are you up for that?

Niall

[Nico_Weyens]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I understand what you are saying but I am not familiar with propogating events.
Could you provide some more information? Or maybe a small example?

Regards,

Nico

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi Nico,

I am sure that John Brinkman discusses propogating events on his blog. http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/

I can't do up a sample at the moment, but will try and get something done over the next day or two.

Niall

[Former Community Member]

Niall's way wil lwork but this one might be easier.

Acrobat has a "dirty" flag that gets set each time a change is made to the doc. This is what tells Acrobat that you need to do a save when you quit. You can test this flag yourself. To access it use:

event.target.dirty

This will return true if a change has been made and false if no changes have been made. Note that if someone enters data into a field and then deletes that data the flag will still be true as a change was deemed to have been made.

Paul

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Good catch Paul

Yes, that is much simpler. I keep forgetting about the dirty flag.

Niall