Email completed form

How do I make an option to email the form directly when the user is finished?

James,
What do I do if I only have professional 7.0? Can you help?
Thanks,
Lmichele
James Robert Smith - 2:47pm Mar 19, 07 PST (#2 of 3) Edited: 19-Mar-2007 at 03:58pm
Some additional info to add to what SekharN said:
1) Add a button (not the email submit button, just the "button")
2) Set the Control type to Submit
3) On the submit tab, add "mailto:[email protected]" in the Submit to URL box
4) Change the submit as drop down to PDF
5) Save the form
6) Open the form in professional 8.0 (not livecycle designer)
7) Go to the Advanced option on the toolbar and select "Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader" which will require you to save the file again.
once you've done that you should have no problem with the emailing the completed form.

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James,
What do I do if I only have professional 7.0? Can you help?
Thanks,
Lmichele
James Robert Smith - 2:47pm Mar 19, 07 PST (#2 of 3) Edited: 19-Mar-2007 at 03:58pm
Some additional info to add to what SekharN said:
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First don't use the default e-mail submit button from object library, that will send just the xml data. Instead you can use the default button and set its control type to Submit. After this put in the Submit to URL field some thing like this: mailto:[email protected]
When you finish the form you need also extend the form by doing what our coleague said above.
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I hope this helps.
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> but it doesn't send the actual file, just a blank e-mail
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Hi,
I am using Acrobat Pro 9 to create a fillable form and the users of this form will have Acrobat Reader 9 or earlier.
Is there a way to email a completed, fillable pdf so the recipient of the email will receive the completed form but the sender does not have to save the form prior to sending?
I've created this fillable form on a shared network drive for our staff to complete when they want to request time off from work. In order to avoid using paper, I want them to fill out this form electronically and email it to their supervisor but I don't want them to be able to save the filled out form. I tested the form and when I fill it out and send it to myself, it comes back as blank...unless I save a copy of it which I don't want to do.
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Thanks for the response Bill. The form was created using Acrobat Pro 9.
I understand the concept of having to save the form but not the data however most of my staff are not very computer literate and I need to keep it as simple as possible:
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I don't mind setting things up and doing the hard work but if the users have to do anything other than 1 and 2, then its not worth setting up.
I guess the main issue with staff keeping a copy of the form is that they can then go back, change something on the form (ie, the date they want time off from work) and then resend the form. Sounds childish but you don't know the people I work with. lol
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