To add a button that submits encrypted and encoded form content to an e-mail address. You can add a button to a form so form fillers can submit the information or data they enter into the various fields in the form. To define the properties of a button for submitting data, you select the button object in the Layout Editor and select options on either the Submit or Field tab in the Object palette.
With the Button object, you first select the Submit option in the Control Type area on the Field tab, to display the options for submitting data on the Submit tab. Each submit button provides options for different purposes. The Button object is the only button that provides the options to include attachments like annotations, templates, and PDFs. You can also use the Button object to submit form data by email using the mailto protocol. Add a Button object to the form design. See To add objects to a form design.
In the Control Type area, select Submit. Data will be submitted according to the settings in the Submit tab. These formats initiate server-side processing. The XML Data Package XDP option submits the form data and optionally includes other information, such as the form design, annotations, and signatures, that is needed for Forms to subsequently render the form at run time.
Attachments may be included with XDP files only. Optional To apply a signature to the submitted data, select Sign Submission and then click Settings to select optional signature settings. The form fill and save restriction was removed from Reader XI. This is very good news for all of us since it removes an impediment and a point of confusion for regular email form submits. It does however, remain an issue with older versions.
One simple solution is to encourage users to download the latest version of Adobe Reader by placing this code in a Document Level Script :. Acrobat provides four different functions for sending email from a PDF listed below. This function sends the form data in FDF as a file attachment to the email. Unfortunately, it does not work in Adobe Reader XI. Some legacy mainframe systems use exactly this method for transferring data.
Fortunately, the Acrobat JavaScript model provides several ways to do the same thing. In this example, the script will acquire a value from a form field and use that value as the CC address on an email submission.
The example actually acquires two email addresses from the form, the client email address and an optional beneficiary email address. Any of the email address fields in a submit cTo, cCC, or cBCC can be a list of semicolon or comma separated addresses. The comma separator is the standard format used by SMTP the standard email server , but a semicolon will also work with most email programs.
Place the code below in the Mouse Up event of a form button. In order for this code to work, the form must have two text fields, one named "ClientEmail" and one named "BennyEmail. All the other inputs, the email inputs, are set up as variables in the code above this line. These are the values you need to change to customize this code for your form. It can submit to server scripts or email, and in a large variety of formats.
If an email address is used, then all the email information is placed in the email URL. In the code below, it is set up to submit the data in XML format.
The first part of this code is identical to the last example. After all, regardless of which function sends the email, all the standard parts of an email have to be provided. So these things will be the same in any email script. The difference is in how the inputs to the email function are built. It has several possible values.
In this code, the data is being sent in a generic XML format. Creating dynamic email submissions is simply a matter of collecting the email data from the form fields and then applying that information to the available email functions. We are trying to create a fillable form with restricted editing and we want to set it up so that the time picker must be filled out in order to move to the next cell. Is this possible? Our second dilemma is to create an expand and collapse option using 4 questions, is this possible in the program we had mentioned above?
Can you please post your question in the Acrobat forum so our experts can help you interactively:. I tried to be clever and bold the text in a var — cBText. You could create your own submit button with instructions and use some JavaScript. The form was created in Acrobat and I am distributing it via email saving the file and sending as an attachment in email. What version of Acrobat are you using the send out your form? Also, how exactly are you distributing the form email, internal server?
Is this a form created in Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer? I have created a form and distributed by email and have a few questions regarding the options for responses being returned. Can I default that option for everyone to select our internal mail server? There is a default message in the email that is generated for my respondents to send. Can this be removed or changed? Double-click the attachment.
Acrobat will prompt you to select a response file. Can you post your question here and be sure to select the JavaScript category so some our other experts can assist you? Thank you for the amazing references and examples!
Concerning sending an e-mail response to multiple individuals. If you wanted to have a PDF document with a series of check boxes that in turn control whom gets sent the pdf via e-mail, how much modification to the code examples above would be needed? Barry Kaufman, Unless the a form submit is done somewhere, the code alwasys has to do the required field validation. Thanks for the script Thom. It works perfectly, however, in the current version of Acrobat Pro Any ideas or will I have to write code to validate all my fields first?
Ina, Please post this question to the forums and be more specific about the script you are using, there are several techniques described in the article. Any insight would be appreciated. Raised Border Creates a shadow around the button so that the button looks three-dimensional. Custom Opens the Custom Appearance dialog box. Select this option if you want to define a custom look for the button. Highlighting Sets the button highlight when the button is clicked: None Removes the button highlight.
Inverted Inverts the button highlight when the button is clicked. Push Creates a shadow around the button so that the button looks like it is recessed. Outline Creates a line around the button when the button is clicked. Rollover Caption Sets a rollover caption when the button highlight is set to Push. Down Caption Sets a down caption when the button highlight is set to Push.
Email Address Sets the recipient of the email message and the attached form data. Email Subject Sets the subject line for the email message. Submit As Sets the format of the data to submit.
Choose this format if the form contains a signature field, or if a copy of the form along with its data needs to be saved by Forms, or submitted to another type of target server. Do not choose this option if the form initiates server-side processing, if Forms will be used to render at run time HTML forms or forms whose layout adjusts, or if the form is a PDF form that will be filled in Adobe Reader without the use of Reader Extensions.
To use this method, users must open the form in Adobe Reader 6. E-mail Submit button. HTTP Submit button.
Submit with Adobe Reader. Get help with Adobe LiveCycle Designer forms and scripts. Configuring CGI scripts or servers to process submitted data. More like this Use Acrobat forms and form data on the web.
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