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So, I'm creating a fillable form from scratch in Adobe Acrobat DC and I have various form fields that I've identified within the form. I have a number of text fields, but then date, name, title, and signature fields as well. However, whenever I preview the form, or even close the file and open in Adobe Reader, every single form field only acts as a text field, regardless of how I set it in the properties. What am I doing wrong??
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Community Expert , May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022
try67 • Community Expert , May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022
You did. This is an Adobe Sign form. Click on Tools - Prepare Form and then click on "More" at the right side of the window and then on "Revert to Acrobat Form". In the future, do not tick the box that says "This document requires signatures" when creating the form. You will still be able to add regular Signature fields to it.
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/t5/acrobat-discussions/different-form-field-types-are-only-operating-as-text-fields/m-p/12939728#M362662 May 12, 2022 May 12, 2022
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The only other type you mentioned is "signature". Did you create Signature fields and they act as text fields? That would be very strange indeed. Are you sure you're not simply creating text fields and intending them to be used for various purposes?
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I used the form field tools in Adobe Acrobat DC to create the various types of fields.
So while I don't know what the Name and Title field types are supposed to do differently, I am familiar with how a date field and a signature field are supposed to operate and that functionality is not present. The properties window even identifies the field as a Date field, yet it only functions as an open text field.
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How would a name field not be a text field? That is to say, what would you want to happen differently?
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That's an excellent question. I'm new to creating forms in Adobe Acrobat, so I don't know what to expect differently. All I know is that Acrobat gives me the option, so I included the field type in my form.
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Can you show a screen shot that includes one of the fields (selected) with the Properties panel open?
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You did. This is an Adobe Sign form. Click on Tools - Prepare Form and then click on "More" at the right side of the window and then on "Revert to Acrobat Form". In the future, do not tick the box that says "This document requires signatures" when creating the form. You will still be able to add regular Signature fields to it.
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This is the way! I was searching for 3 hours until I found this correct answer. All other answers I found were incorrect, but creating the doc and uncheck "this document requires signatures" allowed me to add both a date field and signature field.
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Have you created a Adobe Sign form?
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I've not created forms in Adobe previously.
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Ah, I think you selected an option "this form requires a signature". It would be better if this were labellel instead
"Don't make an ordinary form. Make a special form for use with the online Adobe Sign service, with entirely different options, and which won't work properly in an ordinary PDF viewer". It's certainly a trap, try without that option (and then you won't get these useless choices either!)
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