Cannot submit pdf form online

the problem seems to be that the interactive pdf form that used to open within the browser is now opening outside the browser (both IE8 and Firefox) as a temp file so I can fill it out but when I hit "save for later" or "submit" I get the adobe error "error opening url to submit this form". What setting has gotten set incorrectly? I have been using this site for years with no problem up until recently.

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Host Embed Submit PDF Form Online

I have been scouring the web and apparently I am either asking for something that cannot be done.. or I am terrible at searching. That being said, I was not sure which forum this would best go under so feel free to redirect me as needed.
A client gave me a PDF file (Application for Employment) which has been setup with fields and is Reader Enabled. I would like to host it on their website with a link which preferably takes them to the pdf form embedded in their browser. Then they would ideally be able to fill out the PDF form and click a submit button which would then send it to an email address. I would prefer not to do a mailto solution to avoid the users personal email.
It seems like Adobe eludes to them hosting this functionality, but I can't pin that down. I have also found the website FormRouter which appears to do what we want.. but for a much higher price than we are willing to pay for something that will be accessed once or twice a month.
Thanks in advance,
Matt

On the license, it all depends on the volume that is expected and you should read the EULA for clarification. Better safe than sorry.
If they sent you the form and it is already set for submission (that would be a property of the submit button and depends on if the form is an Acrobat form -- tools menu -- or a Designer form -- forms menu), then all you would need to do is put a standard link into the web site. The form would open in Reader or Acrobat and the client would proceed. The details of the process all depend on what your customer has asked you to do. If it is a submission process, then you would need to modify the PDF.
In any case, even with the PDF embedded (for browsers where possible), the file is basically opening in Reader, Acrobat, or the browser plugin that is loaded by these -- basically opening the PDF in an Adobe product, not really in the browser as such. The actions are then whatever that viewing product is capable of.
My comments were to flag a warning of the process, the potential use of data submission (not requiring enabling the Reader), and the pitfalls of e-mail submission. The latter should really be left to submissions within a controlled environment where you can control the setup of the client e-mail system. In the past MAPI has been required on the user system. Apparently an additional process has been added with AA9, but is subject to lots of problems. There are apparently problems on MACs also, and I don't even know what those are. The only "sure" submission is to a web script. Unfortunately, Adobe has suggested the e-mail (mailto:) submission since AA7, without clarifying the pitfalls. Folks write a form and then have problems, coming here for us to explain what the problem was and the e-mail submission is not recommended for general use. Actually, mailto submission of forms in HTML is subject to a lot of problems also and is generally not recommended in the HTML community for the same reason -- browser problems or variations. I am just providing a warning, the choice is yours. It might work most of the time. When it does not, how much do you expect the customer to come back and blame it all on you!

Cannot not submit pdf form by lotus suite

1. our client said that cannot submit the form by lotus suite.
2. how can I set to submit the form by desktop mail only & at least ver. 7.0 or later.
tks

You can't ...Acrobat will try and interact with the default mail client. If the default mail client is Lotus then thats is what will be used.
For that reason many clients will submit the PDF/data to a web server and have that mail it out on their behalf.

Questions about using a PDF form online

I have a client who wants to create an online version of a PDF form that they are currently using. I am currently trying to explain to them that this would be best done as an HTML web form, but I may not win this argument. I have only used PDFs for printed forms (either hand-written or using form fields) so I am not familiar with any problems that converting the form for use online would entail.
When the 'Submit' button is pressed on the form, is there a way to redirect to another web page after the data is submitted? (i.e. does the PDF have access to it's outer 'environment'?)
Are there any security issues submitting data using the PDF form as opposed to using a standard web form? (There may be sensitive data being submitted)
I'm not sure how they plan to handle the data that is submitted, but there are several options in the submitForm parameters - I am assuming that using the HTML option would submit the data in the same format as a web form would. Am I correct here?
Can the PDF be prevented from being downloaded or printed? This form should only be used to submit data to their server, not as a printed form.
Are there any other 'gotchas' that I need to look out for? Does anyone have a recommendation for a site which contains any tutorials or guidelines for using PDF forms online?

Thanks for the information.
Yes, I agree that there is less reason for it to be a PDF form (Actually, no real reason other than the original form already exists in PDF), but I am unfortunately in the position that my input in this project is not necessarily being considered (my company is following direct -and inconsistent- directions from the client, and I have no contact with the client to ask questions about what their actual needs are). I have been told to give the client the 'Tomato' that they are asking for, even though they are describing an 'Apple'.
The reason this form is not meant to be printed is that we have replaced the 'Signature' fields from the original form with checkboxes that the user must check to confirm they have 'signed' the document. If they are to print/fax/whatever the document, they should use the original form, not this one. And I am still trying to explain to them that this would be better served with an HTML web form, but I fear I am losing that battle.
I have brought up the fact that it is not 100% guaranteed that Acrobat will be available in the browser, although I can only guess that it is less than likely that anyone will not have some sort of PDF viewer available to their browser.
I will also mention that issues may arise if the file is not submitted from within the browser.

Submit pdf form data to sql database

Where I can find detailed information on the process of sending data from pdf form stored on the website to the sql database stored on web server ?? Where I can find some samples I could use to build my form and related script(s).
Thanks for advice.
Tony

Hi Paul,
Thank you very much for your quick response. I can not retrieve your
attachments, so please send them by email. Thank you.
What does it mean that DSN has to be set up on each machine which will run
the form ??? Does it mean for each person who will use the form ?? or
rather once on the server where the form is hosted ??? It will be a bit
difficult to use if it will have to be installed on each user computers as
some users may not be happy to do it. If this is the case do you have any
solution you would recommend which will collect the data from the form
without asking users to do anything special on their computers ????
Regards,
Tony Pluta
Graphics Designer
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submit pdf form data to sql database
If you want the form to contact the DB directly you will have to set up a
DSN on each of the machines that will run the form. Note that this wil
only work on Windows machines. Also the form must be launched for the
script to run (you mentioned the PDF was stored on the web server). I have
some samples that show how to deal with a DB but the attachments do not
seem to be working correctly on the forum yet. If you cannot retrieve them
post your email and I will email them to you directly.
Paul

Sharepoint 2010, InfoPath 2010 with Custom Workflow. Error Message: InfoPath cannot submit the form. An error occured while form was submitted...

I have created an InfoPath form that submits to a Sharepoint library with custom workflow attached. The workflow is initiated when the user submits the form. An email is sent to the supervisor who clicks the "Encoded Absolute URL" and approved
the form via the emailed form. Then, based on certain criteria the form is either emailed to the VP or the workflow is complete. The VP is sent an email and clicks the "Encoded Absolute URL" and sumbits the form via the emailed form. This is
how I would like it to work. The reality is, the form submits and is emailed to the supervisor and the supervisor is able to approve but when the form is sumbitted I get an error. The error is "InfoPath cannot submit the form. An error occured while
this form was being submitted. The form cannot be submitted to the following location: <URL> The file <URL> is checked out for editing by <me> The operation completed successfully." The operation did not complete successfully and it
is not checked out. I have read in previous posts that the file is locked. Since I am in the testing faze of the project there is no one else using the form. I have waited 24 hours and the lock has not been released. Please help!!! My deadline is growing short.

I ran into your post while having a similar issue. I don't have a 'full' fix for you, but I noticed at least in our case if you made sure you opened the Infopath form through the browser instead of the client Infopath program (use the drop-down menu
and open in browser) the error doesn't occur. Hope that helps some....

Infopath cannot submit the form ?

I have infopath form in Infopath 2010, i have publish by choosing option Publish form to a sharepoint Library. It has been publish well.
I have made data connection for submit this form as a document file, it also got succed.
When i filling data and click to Submit option then i am getting following error message-->
InfoPath cannot submit the form.
An error occurred while the form was being submitted.
InfoPath cannot submit to the following location: http://testdev.gcgation.com/apps/LossPreventionIncidents/LossPreventionIncidents/Loss
Prevention
Incident-20121101203.xml
The form template has insufficient security privileges.
Access is denied.
What i have missed , is any fruitfull suggestion on the same?

Hello,
Is your InfoPath form is fully trusted. Please check once. You can set this to true from "Security and Trust" option.
Thanks! BR, Prasham http://prashamsabadra.blogspot.in/

Infopath cannot submit the form because it contains errors. Errors are marked with either a red asterik(required fields) or a red, dashed border (invalid values)

Infopath cannot submit the form because it contains errors. Errors are marked with either a red asterik(required fields) or a red, dashed border (invalid values).
Press Ctrl+Shift+O for next error or Press Ctrl+Shift+I for error details
Please help me, Thank in advance.
Sravan.

Hi Sravan, this means that one or more of the fields are required to be filled in or have validation set up on them so that the information entered matches a certain criteria. Make sure what's entered matches what's required. If the form still can't be
submitted, check the rules set in InfoPath and the list/library to see what's causing the error(s).
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Submit pdf form fields data as customized template

Hi
Is it possible to submit pdf form fields as a customized template?
when the form is submited, I want it to be emailed to me as text form and the form field data would be autopopulated into the text template.
Im not sure but is this how fdf works?
if so, how do i get my form to be submitted as fdf?
please help.
thanks.

Here you go .....the 3 fields at the top are where you enter data. The allfields field is the field that creates your special format and teh submitted data field is what you woudl recieve in the email. Note that i changed th ebinding for the first three fields so that they are not included as separate items in the data file. This shoudl simplify what you recieve. I cam change the format of what is written to the allfields if you need a different distinction. In this example I hardcoded everything ....depending how many fields there are on yours i woudl use a different approach (using some complicated code) but the concept woudl be the same. I woudl find all of the fields on your form and loop through all of these objects in a for loop construct this will reduce th eamount of code dramatically and also allow you to modify the form to add or remove fields as you see fit without having to change the code.
Make sense?
Paul

Cannot fill in forms online. How can I fix this?

I cannot fill in forms online. How can I fix this?

Click the orange Firefox button and go to Options | Options | Privacy and checkmark "'''Remember Search & Form History'''".
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After updating to Adobe Reader 11.0.07 on my iMac, I cannot print pdf forms off the web

after updating my iMac to Adobe Reader 11.0.07, I cannot print pdf forms off the Web

It would be great, if you could provide us with the following details:
1. The OS you are working on.
2. The version of MS Office installed on your machine.
3. A screenshot of the error message along with the scenario in which the same is displayed.
4. How exactly did you go about updating Reader 11.0.02 to 11.0.03. Was it via the updater mechanism or by downloading the patch from the Adobe site.
Also, it would be great if you could let us know if there was any other Windows or Antivirus related updates applied on your machine in the same timeframe as the Reader update.

Why can't I submit a PDF form online?

I have created a PDF form from a current design. I have then created a submit button with the action to "mailto:[email protected]"
I have then uploaded this onto a website, and when the user clicks it, fills out the form, and tries to press the "Submit" button, nothing happens. What am I missing?
Any details would help. I called Adobe but they said they couldn't help me. I am using Acrobat X Pro.

In order to submit the PDF, the default PDF viewer plugin for each browser must support it.
To enable Adobe Reader as the default PDF viewer see the following web page:
Acrobat Help | Display PDF in browser | Acrobat, Reader XI
Note: Not all PDF viewers support PDF submissions.

Acorbat Reader users cannot submit my form to me

I created a form for use by the nine members of my brokerage team. Some people have Acrobat Standard; but some only have Reader. It seems as if the Reader users are unable to submit the forms. When the Reader users click on the button to e-mail the form back to me, they get an error message saying "This operation is not permitted."
I have looked for solutions online, but cannot find any that fit this situation, given the versions of Acrobat that are being used: Pro XI (used by three of us with Creative Cloud), Standard X, Reader (multiple). The solutions that have been posted involve making changed within the Registry; and those solutions that do not involve the Registry make suggestions for setting changes within Pro that don't even exist in my version of Pro XI. (Go figure.)
It would be really nice to get this issue resolved once and for all. If anyone has any recommendations, I would love to hear them.
Cheers!

You don't need to change the registry. It sounds like the form is set up so that the entire PDF is included in the submit, instead of just the form data. For this to work with Reader versions prior to 11, the document needs to be Reader-enabled, since Reader otherwise is not able to save a filled-in form. This won't be needed if Reader 11 is used since it is able to save a non-enabled form (AcroForm, not XFA).

Submit PDF form data IMS database.

Hello
I have developed a pdf form using livecycle designer and it has a submit button in it. The form is published to our organization website. What we would like to do is, when the user opens and fills up the pdf form either on web browser / or after downloading to their desktop, users should be able to post the data in the form directly into our IMS database. Our users are not connected to our organization network but just to the internet.
I understand that we need to use a Submit button with 'Submit As' property set to XML. IMS connect is an IBM interface that would read this xml and pass the data to the database. But, what I would like to know is the architecture and how the components communicate here. i.e. for our design document.
I am assuming that we would need to lay out these components on the diagram but not very sure of the order in which the data is flowing from client to the database.
1. Web browser
2. Internet Connection
3. Webserver (this is where the org. website is and the form is located on the website)
4. LiveCycle ES sitting on an application server?
5. Database tier.
Appreciate if anyone could tell me exactly the steps and the data flow.

You cannot use a submit button to invoke a web service. You woudl create your web service to recieve a single parameter (the XML that represents the data on your form). Then create a hidden field (to hold the data) and bind the input parameter to that field. Now using a regular button, add code that will take the data that is in the data dom and dump it into your hidden field:
HiddenFieldName.rawValue = xfa.datasets.data.saveXML("pretty")
Make sure the your hidden field is set for multiline. Now in the next line of code we need to invoke the web service. You can use the invokeBtn supplied by the DataConenction wizard (dropped on your form of course). You can use the command:
invokeBtn.execEvent("click");
This will send the data in the hidden field to the web service. You can code your web service to return a string that indicates that the data was recieved. You can bind that output parameter to another hidden field. Once the web service executes then that field will hold the message string. Now you can put up a message box to the user:
app.alert(hiddenfieldname.rawValue);
When I talk about hidden fields I mean to make the presence invisible not hidden.
Make sense?

Submit pdf form as HTML will attach a tmp file to email

I all,
I'm just trying to submit a simple pdf form as HTML but I always get a "RandomFileName.tmp" file as attachment to the resulting email.
If I open the tmp file with a text editor I see it contains my form fields name and their related values.
But I think the end-user has not all the knowledge to open a strange file name with a tmp extension.
Why do this happen? is it a bug?
I'm using Acrobat X and Thunderbird 24.0 as email client.
Is there a simple way (I don't know javascript) to get all fields/values in the email body?
This task should be really simple but I cannot find any usefull info on adobe website.
TIA for any help or suggestion.
tony

Is there a simple way (I don't know javascript) to get all fields/values in the email body?
This can be done with JS, and it's not too complicated, but you can't generate an email from Reader without any attachments (well, actually you can, but then the amount of data you can put in it is very limited), it has to have either the entire PDF, or a file with the form data, attached to it.

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