Renaming field

[Martel]

I read the documentation of Essential PDF and nothing indicates that form fields can be renamed. Is that right? If yes, do you have plans to implement this feature?

[George Livingston]

Hi Martel,

Thank you for your interest in Syncfusion products.

Currently we do not have support to rename the form fields. However we will create a feature request report for this implementation. Please create an incident in the Direct-Trac for the follow up of this feature.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,
George

[Carl Ganz Jr.]

Has this feature been added yet? It still doesn't seem like it can be done.

Is there a woraround to this?

Carl

[Chinnu Muniyappan]

Hi Carl, 

 

Thank you for your update. 

 

Yes, we can rename the existing form field by using the SetName method. Also, we have created a simple sample for demonstrating the same, please refer the code snippet and sample below. 

 

            //Load the existing PDF document 

            PdfLoadedDocument ldoc = new PdfLoadedDocument(Server.MapPath("/App_Data/test1.pdf")); 

 

            //Load the PDF form 

            PdfLoadedForm lform = ldoc.Form; 

 

            foreach (PdfLoadedField field in ldoc.Form.Fields) 

            { 

                if (field is PdfLoadedTextBoxField) 

                { 

                    //Set the new name of the field 

                    (field as PdfLoadedTextBoxField).SetName(field.Name + "_renamedField"); 

                } 

                else if (field is PdfLoadedCheckBoxField) 

                { 

                    //Set the new name of the existing filed 

                    (field as PdfLoadedCheckBoxField).SetName(field.Name + "_renamedField"); 

                } 

            } 

            //Save the document 

            ldoc.Save("output.pdf", Response, HttpReadType.Open); 

 

 

Sample Link: http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/forum/101895/ze/PDFFormFields-598562474 

 

Please let us know if you have any concern. 

 

Regards, 

Chinnu