Warning message when filling out PDF Form

asked on November 7, 2016

Hi,

We have a workflow that fills out a PDF form as one of the steps. Based on the information provided all the information is correctly applied to the PDF form and there seems to be no problem with the data. Part of the form has a table section that is populated by data retrieved from a Multi-Value field present on the entry. The table is completed correctly but workflow reports a warning listed below, on every entry that is processed.

Has anyone else had this behavior before? Why is the error being returned? The error makes me think that it does not apply a value, but yet, the table is completed with all the information in the Multi-Value field.

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replied on November 7, 2016

This happens when you have multiple fields with the same name in the PDF and use pattern matching to populate them as a table. The warning is meant to tell you that Workflow has no way of guaranteeing the order of the values inserted because the fields have the same name and there is no index to them.

You can ignore it if the values are inserted the way you expected them to.

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replied on November 8, 2016

Hi Marina,

thank you for the feedback. The field names however are unique but I was wondering if it could potentially be due to the pattern used to identify the range of fields?

See below:

What would be best practice though? The statement that WF cannot guarantee the order in which the values are applied is a bit risky for me as this could cause big problem if any field is placed out of sequence. So I would prefer to fix it that we make sure the values are always filled in the order they are intended to.

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replied on November 8, 2016

Hm, that's interesting. I don't think we ever considered the case of the numbers being somewhere inside the label (and not at the end). It's most likely not something we can fix because the combination possibilities are pretty much endless.

In this particular case, you can still ignore the warning since the fields are ordered by name. To remove the warning completely, you'd have to redesign the PDF form to have the field names end with numbers.

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replied on November 9, 2016

Thank you Miruna,

I'll keep that in mind for the next document design or if we need to make changes to the current one.

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