Adobe interactive form property pdfSource

Hello,
Would like to know what is the significance of property 'pdfSource' in the Interactive Forms UI element.
How this attribute is used and when it should be used.
Thanks.

Hi,
The property pdfsource in Interactive forms UI element should be bound to a data type of type binary because it is in this context attribute that the file is being stored. We can access the file, read or save to our local disk from this attribute.
Hope this helps. Do get back for further help.
Go through this link for explanation on other properties of Interactive form UI element.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/1a/ff773f12f14a18e10000000a114084/content.htm
Regards,
Vijith

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Thank you for the answer.

I change the value of the attribute but again i can read anything from the adobe form. So let me explain what i'm doing.

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> context (node)

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 IMPORTING

 static_attributes = client ).

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PS: Now i have installed the acrobat reader 7.0.8

Edited by: miglsilva on Sep 4, 2010 5:50 PM
Edited by: miglsilva on Sep 4, 2010 6:01 PM

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