Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: DynaPDF.SetFieldIndex

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DynaPDF.SetFieldIndex

Sets the tab order of interactive form fields.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	iOS SDK
DynaPDF	4.0	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes

MBS( "DynaPDF.SetFieldIndex"; PDF; Field; Index ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example

PDF The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New. $pdf

Field The field index or field name. "FirstName"

Index The field index.

Parameter	Description	Example
PDF	The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New.	$pdf
Field	The field index or field name.	"FirstName"
Index	The field index.

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Sets the tab order of interactive form fields.
All fields, independently whether they are created with DynaPDF or imported from external documents, holds in internal index which can be used to reorder or sort the fields with this index.
The start index of a new field is not zero, it is 1000 instead. This makes it easier to set a field in front of all other fields without changing all field indices. However, changing a field index changes not the tab order directly, the fields of a page must be sorted before the page will be closed with the function DynaPDF.SortFieldByIndex.
The tab order of interactive form fields must be set for each page separately.

See also SetFieldIndex function in DynaPDF manual.