Edit action on purple submit button

I am creating interactive PDF forms, and I see that Acrobat adds a submit button in the purple message bar, but how do I add or edit the action for that submit button? It is only visible when in preview mode so I am unable to double click and add an action (such as email) like when creating a new button within Properties.

No Jay. The embedded buttons on quiz slides are not normal buttons.
If you tell what you want to achieve? Because after the two-step process (submitting) either the action specified under Success or Last Attempt will be executed. You can replace the default action 'Continue' by an Advanced action.
Question Question Slides in Captivate - Captivate blog
Lilybiri

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I know that when I insert a Submit button I need to go to the
property inspector and point to an action file so it can receive
the data and redirect the visitor to a confirmation page, but I
have no idea how to make that file. Is there a template for
something like that?

quote:
Should the button be processed in server for redirecting?
I have added behaviors like Add Java scripts, Pop up Window
but they are not seen when the submit button is clicked, neither
would I receive any mail redirected.
Actually, where would the "action for redirecting" for the
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Server?
Thanks for helping with instuctions.

Submit button (Action)

I was curious if there was a way to have two (or more actions) connected to a submit button. With the action tool, I know I am limited to one. is it that way if I create a javascript?

<form action="xxx.php" method="post">
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<button type="submit">Submit Now</button>
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I have a page with fields for data and a submit button,when I click the submit button the data will be passed to another jsp page from where the updation or insertion takes place based on the condition,When this process is being done if the submit button is clicked repeatedly it is misbehaving.Any Idea as how to stop the action on the submit button once the control goes to the next jsp page.

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Can a submit button carry out more than 1 action ?

I want to give show feed back after a survey question but I want to do this whilst the answer that the user has given is still on the page.
I have assigned a show comand to the submit button which makes a text box visable however the play head carries on and the slide progresses to the next one. Is there a way to pause the time line and advance on a click after the feedback, what I think I want is for the submit button to carry out several action or am I going about this the wrong way?

Hello,
Could you tell if you are using the default Question slides for this survey question or did you create your own slide using standard objects?
I'm a bit puzzled about it because you mention the 'Submit' button, that is why I supposed you are using a default Question slide. You can assign an advanced action which can have more than one action of course. But this will not solve your issue. If you want to stick with default question slides that allow you limited control I could make this suggestion:
create the hidden text caption,
increase the default duration of the question slide; typically it will pause at 1.5sec, increase the slide duration so that the text caption that will show up stays long enough for the user to read it
show the text caption for the rest of the slide
attach the success action to the Submit button as you did to show the TC
When the user clicks on Submit, the Text Caption will pop up but the playhead will continue till the slide is finished. AFAIK you will not be able to stop it, but now the user will have sufficient time to read.
The best solution is to create your own survey slides, then you can add as many interactive objects as you wish.
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No submit button in distributed form - JavaScript help

I have creted a from in Live Cycle Designer. After distribution submit button is not visible in Acrobat and Reader. I've looked at the form JavaScript and find out this part of code which probably hide submit button in Acrobat 9:
showAutoGenSubmitBtn = function(bShow)
    var autoGenSubmitName = "%AUTO_GEN_SUBMIT_NAME%";
    var fld = this.getField(autoGenSubmitName);
    if (fld != null)
        var b= this.dirty;
        if (bShow)
            fld.display = display.noPrint;
        else
            fld.display = display.hidden;
        this.dirty= b;
// Hide the auto-generated submit button for Acrobat/Reader >= 9.0
if (app.viewerVersion >= 9)
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(false);
else
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(true);
I am not familair with JavaScript so I would apprecite if someone can help me how to edit it to make submit button visible.
Below is a complete JaveScrip of mentioned form.
Thanks
//@@FORMSWORKFLOW auto-generated script
AdobePatentID="B643"
var AdobePatentID = "AdobePatentID=\"B643\"";
// Show a dialog to ask the user's name and email during submit.
askUserIdentity = function(doc)
    // string constants
    var dlgStrings =
        sDlgTitle:          "Send Form",
        sEmailLabel:        "&Email Address:",
        sNameLabel:         "Full &Name:",
        sSubmitLabel:       "&Send",
        sToLabel:           "To:",
        sSubjectLabel:      "Subject:",
        sSubjectContent:    "Submitting Completed Form",
        sAttachmentLabel:   "Attachment:",
        sFromLabel:         "From:",
        sErrorEmailRequired:"Please enter a valid email address.",
        sErrorNameRequired: "Please enter your name."
    var dlgElems = [];
    dlgElems[dlgElems.length] = {
        type: "view",
        align_children: "align_left",
        elements:
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sToLabel,
                        width: 80,
                        bold: true,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        item_id: "sdto",
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sSubjectLabel,
                        bold: true,
                        width: 80,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sSubjectContent,
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_row",
                elements:
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sAttachmentLabel,
                        bold: true,
                        width: 80,
                        font: "dialog"
                        type: "static_text",
                        item_id: "atch",
                        width: 270,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sFromLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sEmailLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "edit_text",
                item_id: "emal",
                width: 250
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sNameLabel,
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "edit_text",
                item_id: "name",
                width: 250
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "ok_cancel",
                ok_name: dlgStrings.sSubmitLabel
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        resourceContext: "AcroForm",
        description: {
            name: dlgStrings.sDlgTitle,
            elements: [
                    type: "view",
                    align_children: "align_left",
                    elements: dlgElems
    desc.initialize = function(dialog)
        var METADATA_ANNOT_NAME = "adhocFormState";
        var PROP_INITIATOR = "initiator";
        var initiator;
        var annot = doc.getAnnot(0, METADATA_ANNOT_NAME);
        if (annot != null) {
            var arrProps = new Array();
            arrProps = annot.contents.split(";");
            initiator = getProperty(arrProps, PROP_INITIATOR);
        var decodedFileName = unescape(doc.documentFileName);
        var initVars =
            sdto: initiator,
            atch: decodedFileName
        dialog.load(initVars);
    desc.validate = function(dialog)
        var values = dialog.store();
        if (values.emal == "") {
            app.alert(dlgStrings.sErrorEmailRequired);
            return false;
        if (values.name == "") {
            app.alert(dlgStrings.sErrorNameRequired);
            return false;
        return true;
    desc.commit = function(dialog)
        this.result = new Object;
        var values = dialog.store();
        this.result.name = values.name;
        this.result.email = values.emal;
    var ret = app.execDialog(desc);
    if (ret == "ok")
        return desc.result;
    else
        return null;
askEmailClient = function(doc)
// string constants
    var dlgStrings =
        sDlgTitle:      "Select Email Client",
        sDlgText:       "Please indicate the option which best describes how you send mail.",
        sDesktop:       "&Desktop Email Application",
        sDesktopDesc:   "Choose this option if you currently use an email application such as Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, or Mail.",
        sInternet:      "&Internet Email",
        sInternetDesc: "Choose this option if you currently use an Internet email service such as Yahoo or Microsoft Hotmail. You will then need to save your form and return it manually to [email protected] using your Internet email service."
    var dlgElems = [];
    dlgElems[dlgElems.length] = {
        type: "view",
        align_children: "align_left",
        alignment: "align_fill",
        elements:
                type: "static_text",
                name: dlgStrings.sDlgText,
                width: 350,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "radio",
                name: dlgStrings.sDesktop,
                item_id: "rad1",
                group_id: "rgrp",
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_top",
                elements:
                        type: "gap",
                        width: 20
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sDesktopDesc,
                        wrap_name: true,
                        width: 342,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "radio",
                name: dlgStrings.sInternet,
                item_id: "rad2",
                group_id: "rgrp",
                bold: true,
                font: "dialog"
                type: "view",
                align_children: "align_top",
                elements:
                        type: "gap",
                        width: 20
                        type: "static_text",
                        name: dlgStrings.sInternetDesc,
                        wrap_name: true,
                        width: 342,
                        font: "dialog"
                type: "gap",
                height: 5,
                width: 350
                type: "ok_cancel",
    var desc = {
        resourceContext: "AcroForm",
        description: {
            name: dlgStrings.sDlgTitle,
            width: 250,
            elements: [
                    type: "view",
                    align_children: "align_left",
                    elements: dlgElems
    desc.commit = function(dialog)
        this.result = new Object;
        var values = dialog.store();
        this.result.send = values.rad1;
        this.result.save = values.rad2;
    var ret = app.execDialog(desc);
    if (ret == "ok")
        return desc.result;
    else
        return null;
AdobePatentID="B643"
// set a new property value to a property in the specified array.
setProperty = function(arrProps, propName, propValue)
    var i;
    var bSet = false;
    for (i = 0; i < arrProps.length; i++) {
        var propParts = new Array();
        propParts = arrProps[i].split(":");
        if (propParts[0] == propName) {
            propParts[1] = propValue;
            arrProps[i] = propParts.join(":");
            bSet = true;
            break;
    if (!bSet)
        arrProps[arrProps.length] = propName + ":" + propValue;
AdobePatentID="B643"
// get the value for a property in the specified array.
getProperty = function(arrProps, propName)
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < arrProps.length; i++) {
        var propParts = new Array();
        propParts = arrProps[i].split(":");
        if (propParts[0] == propName) {
            return propParts[1];
    return null;
AdobePatentID="B643"
showAutoGenSubmitBtn = function(bShow)
    var autoGenSubmitName = "%AUTO_GEN_SUBMIT_NAME%";
    var fld = this.getField(autoGenSubmitName);
    if (fld != null)
        var b= this.dirty;
        if (bShow)
            fld.display = display.noPrint;
        else
            fld.display = display.hidden;
        this.dirty= b;
// Hide the auto-generated submit button for Acrobat/Reader >= 9.0
if (app.viewerVersion >= 9)
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(false);
else
    showAutoGenSubmitBtn(true);

I'm distributing the form in Acrobat Pro 9.
I created the form in Live Cycle Designer. Save, then open in Acrobat pro. Extend Features to Acrobat Reader, click the drop down box on Forms and hit distribute. I save a local copy. When I open the distributed form the buttons do fall silent, the Submit Button on the purple line up top still works, but that doesn't appear in reader and the people who will be completing the form all use reader. Any suggestions for a fix?
I'd like to distribute because that automates the tracking. It works undistributed.

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To do so i guess you could use this to send an email in ur regular button (not a submit button) in the click event
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You
We are experiencing a problem where we created a form on formscentral from scratch not an import and on an android phone is works OK but on any of our android pads it does not work, the send button is inoperative and if they email or save the forms they stay blank. We have Reader 11.5 (On my Ipad it works OK) please advise, we currently have a full adobe subscription.

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The submitForm action currently supports submitting a document to Adobe FormsCentral only. The cURL must be an Adobe FormsCentral target.
To add an action to button to send the form as an email, you can perform the following steps:
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More details about JavaScript submitForm to Adobe FormsCentral can be accessed at Doc - JavaScript for Reader Mobile API Reference (Android)
If you are still observing issues, please send the form to [email protected] so that we may investigate the same.
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Whatever is running on the server does not have to be PHP, any mechanism
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http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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I'm new to modifying pdfs so please excuse me. I have a form with a submit button and the action associated is
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}Jack

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