Max amount of forms emailed

Question

Hey,
I am creating a form in indesign to sign up for an event. Now that designing isnt the real problem but this is:
For the event(on multiple day's) there is a limited number of sign up.
Is there some kind of function to verify if that number is reached?
So you click send, and then it just send if there are less than 350 forms emailed, or if there are more it shows an error message that that day is full?
Hope you guy's van help.
Rob

Answer 1

Personally, I would have the form be a fill-out, print and snail-mail or fax form. Have the URL on the form for people to go to an on-line version of the form.
Emailing forms or form data can be fraught with problems. So many people these days use something other than what would be considered a "default email" application. Instead opting for browser-based emailing.
You can have  a button that pushes people to a web site for on-line registrations. Use PHP or ASP.net to process the form. Have a simple shopping cart system to deal with quantities of registrations for any given event.
You can have the Acrobat form data feed a PayPal shopping basket upon a submit action as well. Depending on how you set up the PP account, it can keep simple "inventory" (in your case, seats at an event) so you cannot overbook.
But using Acro forms for such direct "booking" isn't something I recommend. Once people click that submit butting, whether they are sending XML or whatever data type vial email, or simply pushing them to an on-line form, they will get a security warning about whether they really want to do whichever action you've scripted.
Just my opinion about "live" Acro forms.
Take care, Mike