Repeating Forms

[Former Community Member]

I have a form that has 6 pages. some of these pages are repeatable and I am trying to make it so that the entire form is repeatable. I use xml input such as:

<Root>
<page1/>
<page2/>
<page3/>
<page3/>
<page4/>

<page4/>
<page5/>
<page1/>
<page2/>
<page3/>
<page3/>
<page4/>

<page4/>
<page5/>
</Root>

But instead of getting the pages as is specified by the XML I get the two forms combined and some pages misssing

page1 [1]
page2 [1]
page3 [1]
page3 [1]
page3 [2]
page3 [2]
page4 [1]

page4 [1]

page4 [2]

page4 [2]

page5 [1]

I am not sure where to go from here and I appologize for being vague.  I have a copy of the form and XML that show this if anyone can take a look.

Thanks

Cameron

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

Not sure if this would work but what if you wrapped all of the page subforms into a subform of their own (representing the form). So it would come out:

<root>

     <form1>

          <page1/>

          <page2/>

              |

              |

             V

     </form1>

     ,<form1[1]>

          <page1/>

          <page2/>

               |

               |

              V

     <form1[1]/>

</root>.

[Former Community Member]

Thank you that fixed it.  The only problem I have left now is that my page numbers are based on the document as a whole, not the individual instances of the new subform.

The paging is defined in the master pages, which are outside the subform, and I was getting the page using xfa.layout.pageCount() which is obviously wrong just based on the name.  Do I need to move the page numbering to be within the subforms or can it stay on the master pages? Any thoughts?

Thank you

Cameron

[Former Community Member]

If you set your form level subform to flowed, then each of  your page subforms will have a Pagination tab available. You can control where you want it to appear in the Place dropdown. I would set it to "Top of Next Page".