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DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Working with Documents, Charts, and Reports
Las t upda te d 8/5/2010
In ColdFusion, to prefill the fields in forms created in Acrobat, nest the field names as subforms:
<cfpdfform action="populate" source="acrobatForm.pdf">
<cfpdfsubform name="form1">
<cfpdfsubform name="x">
<cfpdfformparam name="f1" value="AGuthrie">
<cfpdfformparam name="f2" value="123">
<cfpdfformparam name="f3" value="456">
</cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfform>
Often, forms created in LiveCycle contain subforms within the form1 subform. For example, the following grant
application contains nested subforms:
To populate the fields in ColdFusion, map the structure by using nested
cfpdfsubform
tags:
<cfpdfform source="c:\grantForm.pdf" destination="c:\employeeid123.pdf" action="populate">
<cfpdfsubform name="form1">
<cfpdfsubform name="grantapplication">
<cfpdfsubform name="page1">
<cfpdfformparam name="orgAddress" value="572 Evergreen Terrace">
<cfpdfformparam name="orgCity" value="Springfield">
<cfpdfformparam name="orgState" value="Oregon">
...
</cfpdfsubform>
<cfpdfsubform name="page2">
<cfpdfformparam name="description" value="Head Start">
<cfpdfformparam name="pageCount" value="2">
...
</cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfform>
Note: A PDF file can contain only one interactive form. Therefore, if a PDF file contains subforms, a Submit button
submits data for all the subforms simultaneously.
struct
form1 struct
grantapplication struct
page1 struct
orgAddress [empty string]
orgCity [empty string]
orgState [empty string]
... ...
page2 struct
description [empty string]
pageCount [empty string]
... ...