Calendar popup in a PDF form
How do you create a popup calendar in a fillable PDF form?
I am running Acrobat on a Mac Air with the current OS.
There's no such component in PDF forms, only in those created in LiveCycle Designer.
There are some third-party tools, though, that bring this functionality to PDF forms. The most known is the free one by FormRouter, which is based on form fields. The other is not free and is by fellow-expert Max Wyss, and it's based on a dialog object and therefore clutters the file less.
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hexa TYPE solix_tab.
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ie_outputparams = param
EXCEPTIONS
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'[email protected]' .
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In my form, there is a button that is supposed to close the form when clicked, it is working if I launched the form in Reader but does not work in a browser.
The script that I used in the click event of the button is:
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I have a form running that has captured and recorded the correct data...and shows up correctly in the response table however when I "downlaod the response as a PDF form" some data is missing and some is there.
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Thanks,
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Were you having the same problem when exporting your responses data in different format like Excel or CSV? If if is possible, please share your form with me.
Please do the following to share your form
1. Click on “Design tab” on the top left corner.
2. Click on the “Share” icon on the bottom left corner.
3. Click on “Add Collaborator” on the popup menu.
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6. Click the “Share” button on the bottom right of the dialog.
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