Commenting on Dynamic PDF Forms

My question is really two parts. First, is there a way to enable commenting on Dynamic forms with out loosing any functionality? Secondly, is there any way to view a audit trail of a form to see who and at what time users have entered information into the form fields? Any help that you could provide would be most appreciated.

No, there is no audit trail. If you wanted to create an audit trail with Javascript you probably could, but it is more hassle that it would be worth. If you want to set an audit trail, you might as well be using an html based form or a networked database form,

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Hi,
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Adobe Reader XI - dynamic PDF Form and the E-Mail Dialog

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I have a dynamic PDF Form and we use the E-Mail function to save the XML-Data to local harddrive. That works until Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.2. But with the Adobe Reader XI (11.0.4) the E-Mail Dialog has changed so I am One is forced to send the XML file with Outlook or the internal mailer and has no option to save the file locally.
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Hi Pat,
Are you using Adobe Reader XI? And not Acrobat. It does not ask me to save the form if there are unsaved changes.
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For anyone in the future who has a similar issue, I've come up with a fairly simple workaround. It adds an extra step of work, but it allows you to continue using dynamic forms in your workflow.
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The free solution (which I have opted for) is to use a virtual printer to 'print' the document to a suitable format. There are many free virtual printers out there, but I have decided to go with CutePDF Writer. I print to the CutePDF writer, and the output is, essentially, a flattened Blackberry compatible .pdf form. The only issue is that you cannot edit a flattened document (a bonus in my situation, but still something to keep in mind... You can still edit the original document, as the flattened .pdf is a copy, not a transformation.)
You can even add a print button to the form with some JavaScript to specify the printer as 'CutePDF Writer'. Altogether, it's easier than recreating all of the business forms that have been made in a static format, and you can still leverage all the benefits of a dynamic form.
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How to programatically convert XDP form into Dynamic PDF form

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Take a look at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/programLC/help/index.html and the API Quick Starts > Output Service API Quick Starts.
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/programLC/help/000243.html#1645763
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Java Library for dynamic PDF form creation similar to LiveCycle Designer

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Preview and Safari can't open dynamic PDF forms

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Comment on Dynamic PDF

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I'm new to Adobe LiveCycle as well as the forum. I've created a PDF form using Adobe LiveCycle ES2 whereby users are able to fill in the details for some calculations. It's an interactive form in the sense that it retrieves data from a Ms Access database for dropdown binding and data entered to the form will write to the database when click on save button. Everything works perfectly with dynamic PDF and Acrobat X Pro. However, when come to the final mission, which allows user to sign on the form (via a touchscreen tablet) with Comment -> Drawing Markups -> Draw Free Form, an error was prompted as below.
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If someone wants to send a PDF file via email it has to be saved first.
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Populating dynamic PDF Form Content

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Me and my colleagues have a problem using the importData service to import some xml data into an empty PDF form (represented as an XFA input variable).
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Is this really not possible to to (like importing xml data to a form is possible in the Designer when creating forms).
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[JS - CS6] dynamic PDF forms

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I just come across the new PDF forms and the possibility to add them directly from ID.
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