Collecting intact responses from a fillable form

How can i distribute the fillable form through a company website but receive submitted responses to an email address? I need the completed questionnaire to remain intact. FormsCentral sorts the form's responses which doesn't work for our purposes.

You can set up a button with a "Submit a form" action and use a mailto type URL to specify the email address you want the forms sent do. Once you have the form all set up, you need to Reader-enable it as the final step. This thread shows how with several versions of Acrobat. You then have to send the form to your users or make it available on a web site.

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$message .= "Phone: " . $_POST["text12"] . "\r\n";
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From: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">gyj</TEXTFORMAT>
First Name: First Name
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City: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">456</TEXTFORMAT>
State: State
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Email: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">gyj</TEXTFORMAT>
Pickup Address: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">23</TEXTFORMAT>
Destination Address: <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=\"2\">ghjm</TEXTFORMAT>
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Responses from Distributed Forms

Is there a way to send me an email notification once I receive a submitted response from a distributed form
using Acrobat?

Is the form being returned as a pdf or xml? You can distribute the form, which will set up a pdf portfolio for your returned forms. When forms are returned via email, you double click on the attachment and it puts into the portfolio. From the portfolio you can export one or more forms (data) into an excel file.
To export the whole form, click on File, Export and choose the file type you want. However, if you just want the form data, I would suggest you distribute the form to create the pdf portfolio for that.

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I created a form, and then copied it and renamed it. The original form is for vendors to view and play with, for a proposal process. The 2nd form is for people to actually respond to. I advertsie the 2nd form on a website, and all the links are correct. However, I am getting responses from the 2nd form dumped into the first form. I don't want to close the first form, because i want it to be viewed by vendors submitting proposals. I have done this with several other forms and I'm concernd this will continue to happen. Both forms have distinct URLs, so I'm not sure why this is happening.
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Thanks.
This is the first form, that is more of a test form, and responses are coming into here that shouldn't be coming - responses 1 through 3 should be in the 2nd form, the 4th response is a test response: https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=A0RbyH00%2AMzZbcG5l1gfsA
This is the 2nd form that responses should be coming into: https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=6qiuxTHSQSDl-tFtiVRbpA
And I added you as coauthor.
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Trouble retreiving attachments from fillable forms

I have created a fillable form for our customers to submit with responses. They can type a response in a box or attach a document, which may be a Word doc or a pdf. The forms containing their responses are collected in the responses file created when the form is distributed. I can open each response and then open the attachments. I want to be able to export all data from the forms that are submitted, including any attachments. I successfully exported the data from the forms to Excel but the attachments are not transferred.
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Such a transfer is a problem if you are not extremely specific about the software. Generally, such an attachment is just that so that you can save it, but not for converting some arbitrary format into a different format for a database. You are probably asking a bit much.

Format of response from distributed form

Hi guys,
I have been working with a trial of Acrobat X Pro and Livecycle ES II, to determine if we can use it effectively to replace paper forms in our workplace. We have also recently deployed Alfresco, an open source CMS, which is very tightly integrated with what we would like to do with Adobe forms. I am a little confused though, at trying to figure out what controls the format of the response.
With the forms I create in liveCycle, when distributed, the response seems to be either a pdf or an xml file. The first few forms I designed arrived on the server as pdf's when I tested them (which is exactly what I wanted). The last couple I have created (using liveCycle) however, seem to always arrive as xml. I have gone through every page of the Distribute... wizard with what I feel is rather a fine toothed comb but cannot find anywhere to control this.
Today I have discovered that Alfresco is unable to parse the form fields in the liveCycle PDF's (this is to do with the Tika parser and PDFBox, but isn't really related to this disccussion directly), so I have switched to Acrobat which, in my testing so far, does create forms parsable by Tika. When I distribute the form from Acrobat though, the responses always seem to be in xfdf format (which seems to boil down to xml anyway).
I am sure that actual PDF's were created at some point. I still have test distribution folders full of pdf responses. Does anyone know what I am missing which controls the response??

Hi Bill,
I know the data format would be alot more useful if we were just needing to get the data into a database or some other process or application, but the need here is moreso for the actual PDF. This is also required to be an automated process, so importing the data files into acrobat manually is not an option.
When you say are we collecting data by email or web script, I am not 100% sure I understand. When we choose distribute form... there are three choices - collect responses on Acrobat.com, collect responses in my email inbox, and collect choices in our own server. We choose the latter of the three (own server) and specify the CIFS path to a folder on the Alfresco server.
Essentially all I need here is to find out which setting allows me to have pdf's (not xml or fdf or xfdf) collected in the responses folder when the form is distributed using the "own server" option. When I go through the distribute wizard, the only options I set seem to be: How the data is collected (own server), the path to the server, whether or not to collect name and email and the server profile name. (although now I think of it, I believe that originally I was leaving the "collect name and email" checkbox ticked originally when I was seeing actual PDF's collected, so I may try that now. If that's the setting controlling the response format though I would be surprised and find it incredibly unintuitive).

Read responses from a form

How do I read responses from a completed PDF form?
I used adobe acrobat pro extended 9 to create a form. Was confused at the end as all the methods for publishing the form and collecting responses were more involved than I wanted. I selected the email option.
As a test I made a copy of the blank form. Then completed it, saved the resulting document. How do I read the responses from a completed PDF form document?
I want to manually distrubute the PDF form document. Then manually receive the completed form document back. ( copy it to an "in box" folder ). Then use a program of some sorts ( the adobe SDK? ) to automatically pull the response data out of the completed form.
thanks,

Thanks a lot. I understand better now. I opened the completed PDF with acrobat and the response data was automatically associated with the original document.
Very nice.

How do I import multiple responses from outside Forms Central into a form at one time?

I created a survey in Word, used Adobe to make into a fillable pdf, emailed it to the prospective respondents, and I have received many emailed responses. I have uploaded my original form to Adobe Forms and now I would like to upload those responses into Forms Central to make use of its reporting capabilities. How can I import all of my repsonses into Forms Central?

Hi,
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but Randy had mentioned a bug in Chrome regarding copy/paste. I've been searching for hours for a solution, but nothing on Google Chrome and c/p for the fillable area of a pdf document. Google forums have not yielded anything about fillable forms, so I'm hoping an Adobe forum would be more knowledgable.
I have a fillable form online where the fillable area cannot be pasted into or copied out of while using Google Chrome. Note that the text already on the document can be c/p'ed. You can see it here: http://www.centralcallegal.org/eictaxcampaign/Coverform.pdf This is a form for our self-help computer kiosks which use Google Chrome. The form is designed so users can copy and paste their own info into the cover sheet so there won't be any typos.
Without looking at alternative methods of using the form (i.e. saved on desktop), is there a way to fix this copy/paste issue? It is definitely a Google Chrome issue, as c/p works fine in IE and Mozilla. Thank you.

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I just installed Adobe Reader in my iPad to send a fillable form but as I sent it out the form is received blank by the recipient. How do I save the PDF fillable form and send it out with the filled out information. I am able to save it in Acrobat but for some reason I send the form but the recipient receives it blank. What can I do? Thank you for your help.

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Prepopulating PDF Fillable Forms with data from XML files

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Hi Sharon
The easiest way is:
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- From the File menu, use Save As... to save the file with a new name.
The new PDF will be identical to the original one, but will have the data embedded in it. Voila.
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We are creating an appliction using web dynpro and adobe that will allow users to update PO status information offline. The information is downloaded into a form and then updated offline by the vendor. After this change the form is uploaded into the application and sent to SAP R/3 via a BAPI call. The BAPI provides the information for different PO's as a table structure (many items - collection) which is downloaded into the form and displayed as a table. The download part works and we can upload the modified file also. We can even see the data getting loaded into the controller context after we upload the form.
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Hi satishsuri ,
You will have to use 3 methods together :
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>directory_browse "Browse the Directory
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>directory_list_files "Get all the files from the directory
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_upload "Upload each file in a loop
Example:
TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_data,
 line TYPE string,
 END OF ty_data.
DATA: str_file TYPE string,
 str_dir TYPE string,
 it_file_table TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF file_info,
 wa_file_table TYPE file_info,
 v_count TYPE i,
 it_data TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_data,
 wa_data TYPE ty_data.
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>directory_browse
CHANGING
 selected_folder = str_dir.
CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>directory_list_files
EXPORTING
 directory = str_dir
CHANGING
 file_table = it_file_table
 count = v_count.
LOOP AT it_file_table INTO wa_file_table.
CONCATENATE str_dir wa_file_table-filename INTO str_file SEPARATED BY '\'.
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 EXPORTING
 filename = str_file
 filetype = 'ASC'
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ENDLOOP.
ULINE.
ENDLOOP.
Regards,
Jovito

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