We have a pdf that is filled out by ColdFusion using <cfpdfform>. A field in the pdf was named incorrectly so there are 2 fields named the same thing (let's say "field1"). As the system has populated (many) copies of the pdf the same value has gone into both fields named "field1" when really two different values should have gone into a "field1" and "field2".
I need to get the information correctly entered into "field2" so I had two ideas...
- I researched was renaming the field in all the pdfs using ColdFusion (so I could repopulate the new field) but that does not appear to be possible. But to confirm... Can you rename a field in a pdf using ColdFusion?
- If I couldn't rename it I just wanted to change what was in the second occurrence of "field1". I tried using the index attribute of <cfpdfformparam> but that only applies to forms created in LiveCycle. Does anyone know how to populate only one occurrence of a field name in a pdf using <cfpdfform>?
As an aside I have corrected the field name in the pdf for future use.