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cfpdfformparam
Last update:
May 18, 2026
Description
Provides additional information to the cfpdfform tag. The cfpdfformparam tag is always a child tag of the cfpdfform or cfpdfsubform tag. Use the cfpdfformparam tag to populate fields in a PDF form.
History
ColdFusion 8: Added this tag.
Category
Syntax
<cfpdfform ...>
<cfpdfformparam
name = "field name"
value = "ColdFusion variable"
index = "integer">
</cfpdfform>Note:
You can specify this tag's attributes in an attributeCollection attribute whose value is a structure. Specify the structure name in the attributeCollection attribute and use the tag's attribute names as structure keys.
See also
cfdocument , cfdocumentsection , cfform , cfinput , cfpdf , cfpdfform , cfpdfparam , cfpdfsubform , cfprint , IsPDFFile , IsPDFObject
Attributes
| Attribute | Req/Opt | Default | Description |
index | Optional | 1 | Index associated with the field name. If multiple fields have the same name, use the index value to locate one of them. Applies to forms created in LiveCycle only. |
name | Required | Field name on the PDF form. | |
value | Required | Value associated with the field name. For interactive fields, specify a ColdFusion variable. |
Usage
Use the cfpdfformparam tag inside the cfpdfform tag or the cfpdfsubform tag to populate fields in a PDF form.Use the index attribute of the cfpdfformparam tag to specify fields with the same name and different values, as the following code shows:
<!--- This example shows how to use multiple cfpdfformparam tags with the same name and
different index values for a PDF form that contains fields with same name. --->
<cfpdfform source="c:\payslipTemplate.pdf"
destination="c:\employeeid123.pdf" action="populate">
<cfpdfformparam name="phone" value="781-869-1234" index="1"/>
<cfpdfformparam name="phone" value="617-273-9021" index="2"/>
</cfpdfform>Note:
Use the index attribute with forms created in LiveCycle only. Forms created in Acrobat cannot contain more than one field with the same name; therefore the index attribute is not valid.
Example
See the cfpdfform tag examples.
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