3 Replies Latest reply on Oct 23, 2018 10:57 AM by Nick Cutler

Give BOM column a dropdown option with numbers or fillable form for pdf

Robert Voogt Jun 12, 2018 4:34 AM

A good day everyone,

Is it possible to give a BOM column a pdf fillable form or dropdown menu with choices so that when customers want to order a part they can enter the amount?

I tried automatic fillable form recognition in Adobe Acrobat but it sees a lot more fillable form fields than there actually are or it ignores everything. (when it does recognizes fillable forms, it sees the name of the column 'Order') I have to delete the other fields manually. This doesn't work when there are about 15000 drawings I have to convert...

Re: Give BOM column a dropdown option with numbers or fillable form for pdf

Deepak Gupta Jun 12, 2018 6:51 AM (in response to Robert Voogt)

I do not think you can do that within SW directly without using 3rd party tool. In case you are looking for a tool outside SW then try Able2Extract
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  Robert Voogt Jun 12, 2018 7:13 AM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
  
  I was affraid for that answer Will take a look.
  
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Re: Give BOM column a dropdown option with numbers or fillable form for pdf

Nick Cutler Oct 23, 2018 10:57 AM (in response to Robert Voogt)

In addition to the above resource, you can also try using https://online-form-builder.pdffiller.com/ It allows you to fill out fields in the PDF, unlike Adobe which does not recognize fields. In any case, I managed to delete unnecessary fields manually and convert the document as necessary. I did not use Able2 Extract
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