Disable "Send Data File" prompt

Question

When I open the pdf created in LiveCycle Designer 7.1 and click on "Submit to Email" it prompts me for what type of email app I use. It then presents the "Send Data File" prompt. The options are "Send Data File" "Print Form" and "Cancel." It also has a "Don't show again" checkbox.
Is there a way to disable this prompt? For example after the user clicks on their email app it would simply open the email with the data file as an attachment.
I'm afraid that my people may click on "Print Form" instead of "Send Data File" or they might click "Cancel". I just want to ensure this is as easy as possible for them to complete.
Does anyone know if it's possible to disable the "Send Data File" prompt and automatically open an email and attach the data file?

Answer 1

Amrit,
I apologize for taking so long to respond to your question. It took me a while to locate someone on the Acrobat Team who could answer my questions.
It's a good thing you asked about this because it turns out that this behaviour will no longer occur as of the next release of Acrobat. In the next release, if the call to submit a form's data via email comes from an Acrobat
Action, the "Choose your email application" dialog will always be displayed (unless the user has already clicked on the "don't show this again" check box which you can't control programmatically). If, however, the call to submit the form's data comes from JavaScript, the dialog won't be displayed. Instead, Acrobat will use the system's default email application (e.g. Microsoft Outlook) to do the submission.
Unfortunately, clicking on a button with the mouse or the keyboard (by setting focus to it and hitting the Enter key) as well as firing a button's Click event with execEvent("click"), as I had previously suggested, will all be considered Acrobat
Actions and will therefore possibly show the unwanted "Choose your email application" dialog.
In order to get around this, we need a solution which always uses JavaScript to do the submission. Fortunately, we can use the Acrobat Document object's
submitForm method to do this, thereby ensuring that the unwanted dialog doesn't show-up in future versions of Acrobat. The only potential problem with this solution is that it'll only work if the form is rendered to PDF. If the form is rendered to HTML (using
Adobe LiveCycle Forms, for example), this method will not work because Acrobat won't be involved in hosting the form.
The trick is to use the
event.target object in a regular button's Click event. This object is actually the Acrobat Document object. From there, you can use the
submitForm method as follows in order to achieve the same behaviour as that of Designer's email submit button (in JavaScript):
var sEmailAddress = "[email protected]";
var sSubject = "This is an email";
event.target.submitForm
  cURL: "mailto:" + sEmailAddress + "?subject=" + sSubject,
  cSubmitAs: "XML",
I've attached a sample form which uses this JavaScript to submit its data via email. Give it a try to see how it works.
Stefan
Adobe Systems