Form distribution and collection by e-mail alone?

I am trying to set up an automated system for data collection via Acrobat-generated forms. But, the respondents are in rural Africa and have at best lousy internet access and can barely manage e-mail. Do the form distribution and collection functions of Acrobat work when using e-mail back and forth alone, or is a connection to Acrobat.com required?
Thanks

Yes, it can work if the forms are sent by email. The idea is they are sent to you, and you use Acrobat to add them to Tracker. Or you can not use Tracker and just manage the data yourself.

Similar Messages

Forms distribution and e-mail addresses

I am trying to distribute a form via e-mail and my return e-mail address is refused by Acrobat as being a valid address. It appears to be the suffix part of the address which is @istr.org.uk is the problem.
Is there a work around for this?

Hi George,
Double checked the 'space situation' whilst it was not obvious that appears to be the problem. When I now use the address having positively deleted any extraneous characters visible or not the address works.
I am puzzled by this as I am quite careful about typos in addresses. Do you think that the system introduced this oddity?
Problem solved though and many thanks.
Mark

Form Distribution and re-submit

I am new to form design but would like to create a PDF form/checklist for each project that we manage. At any time, the project manager can access the checklist, update existing fields and re-submit. Is there a way to do this that the dataset record gets updated WITHOUT creating a new record?
Hopefully the question makes sense...basically we want to re-submit the form, and have the dataset record updated and NOT add a new record.
Thanks

Thanks for the response Paul. Yes that is exactly what I'm talking about. I was hoping that by adding to the initial form you could then re-submit and have it update the first response. This would mean that the initial form is somehow linked to the response (ie. Form #1 updates record #1, form #2 updates record #2 etc.)
I'm thinking that it might be possible to achieve something similar by looking at the project # (which is a unique field created on each form distributed) and then sorting/filtering by the submit date (to only look at the latest submitted date for that project #)....but that certainly could be more difficult in the programming/collection process.

Forms central and collecting secure information.

If I place a form using forces central on the internet via the collect responses online is it secure? I am collecting private information.

How many active forms and number of responses are allowed in the standard Forms Central that comes with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro? Because I only have one active form with 3 responses (all are practices to figure out the program). If I delete everything, should I theoretically be able to upload a PDF into forms and collect responses for it? Or will that function still be blocked without an upgrade?
Thanks for your help. Sorry for the long questions

Distribution and collection wizard problem with formulas

Hi gurus,
I've an input schedule I want to distribute through the distribution wizard, this input schedule, has some rows where the user should enter data and some rows with formula using the data the user filled before.
When I collect the data I notice that the wizard only collect the user entered and remain untouched the data from the formulas.
If i enter the data in the input schedule directly (without using the distribution wizard) it works and the system send to the database the data I entered and the data from the formulas.
I activated the parameter REFRESH_CACHE_BEFORE_COLLECT, but it doesn't make any difference.
Any idea.
Thanks in advance

Hi Jose,
Could you find a solution? We're having a similar problem.
Thanks in advance

Forms Distribution and DLL's

I have created a form to run reports. I am in the process of
creating the distribution media. I have included both forms and
reports runtime applications with my application. When i
installed my form on a fresh machine and tried to run it, it
errored out asking for some DLL's.
Dose anyone know what should i include with my application
beside reports and forms runtime ????
I am using Developer 6.0 running on Oracle 8i.
Thanks
Fadi

Hi
How are you making that 'distribution media'?
I think Forms and Reports should be installed
in every client machine with the original
Oracle CD's.
If this is a problem, and you do not use in
your application any client-server specific
resource, you can use the web-version of Forms,
that does not need to be installed in the clients.
lc

Distribution and collection

Hi guys,
I meet an issue that is very troublesome. I buid a distribution list to distribute an input schedule template to a few project companies. I use the function EVCVW to get each project company's entity dimension member. It is correct while distributing. After distribution, I get the right input schedule for each project company. However, when I collect them, the data can not be collected to the right entity member. I think it is because of the EVCVW function in the template, it will communicate with the current view of entity dimension while collecting data. However, I need this function when distributing. I can't find a good solution to deal with this issue. Have you met this kind of issue before. Is there someone who can give some good suggestions. Thank you.

Hi Jose,
Could you find a solution? We're having a similar problem.
Thanks in advance

Form Distribution Issues

I have two related issues regarding the distribution function in Arobat 9.0.
We have an order form with a "submit by email" button on it. Myself and a co-worker, Leon, are responsible for completing that form for each order. I created the form in LiveCycle and with Acrobat 9.0, used the distribution function to send it to Leon and myself. I sent it to automatically collect the data on my own server.
When I take an order and click submit, it doesn't go through the email process, Acrobat just notifies me that the message was sent and the order database is updated with Adobe Tracker. When Leon clicks submit, he has to go to the email process.
Question 1: If I were to, and can I, move the collection folder that I originally set up on my own server to a common server that he and I share, would he be able to then skip the email process?
Question 2: He only has the Adobe Reader 8.0, whereas I have the full program. How does this affect his ability to fully take advantage to the distribution and collection process?
Thanks!

We have a solution that allows you to do most of what you want, including bulding the form, having people fill it out either in Reader (as an XFA-PDF) or on the iPad (as an HTML form).
You design the form once, and it will by styled correctly on the appropriate platform.
For more information, check out these links:
http://www.avoka.com/blog/2012/02/style/
http://www.avoka.com/content/avoka/en/products/sff3/smartform-composer/features_and_demos. html
http://www.avoka.com/content/avoka/en/products/sff3/avoka-smartform-factory.html

ADOBE Interactive forms / Automatic handling by SAP via mail

Hi All,
Short question. Is it possible that for example, an email
with a predifined body is send to a SAP SMTP port and that the content is read bij an service(for so far this is possible)and that this service creates an ADOBE interactive form autmatically and returns it by mail.
I have to know this, because it is a possible customer scenario.
Any input is welcome!
Thanks,
Harrie Prinsen

Hi,
Adobe Interactive form can be generated and sent it via email by using a normal Java class. But that Java class should run in a server which should contain Adobe DocumentService.This java class can be archived as a par file and deployed on Portal server or can be written as a Webservice and can be triggered by clicking on a URL.
Hope this blog helps.
/people/ramesh.kotagiri/blog/2009/01/19/dynamic-generation-of-offline-adobe-interactive-forms-for-sap-46c-and-ep-70-without-user-intervention-part-150-iii

Safari and mail will not load but i am connected to internet and can download form itunes and other sourses is that HD failure?

Safari and mail will not load but i am connected to internet and can download form itunes and other sourses is that HD failure? any suggestions ? verify disk says its OK

iOS 4: Updating your device to iOS 5 or later - Support - Apple
iOS: Unable to update or restore - Support - Apple
iTunes for Windows: iTunes Store connection troubleshooting
See if any of these three may help.

Dynamic forms and collection.

Hello,
In one of your postings you’ve explained that the collections won't work with dynamic forms. The collection will only "see" the first instance of the subform. You've provide link to the sample, but it does not longer work :
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p52549088/.
This sample shows how to manually encode data into barcode from a subform that repeats. Can you please provide a working link or sample? Is there any other suggestion on how to link barcodes on dynamic forms?
Regards,

Hello Dave,
I can't say I've seen issue 1 before and would recommend contacting support.
For item 2 I would suggest wrapping your 'line' of text in a subform then creating a script to use the setInstance method for that subform.
Let's say you had a subform named "TextLine" (which contained a text field), a numeric field called "NumberOfLines" and a button called "SetLines". You would likely want to have javascript code on the SetLines button click event much like:
TextLine.instanceManager.setInstances(NumberOfLines,rawValue);
You will want to save this form as a Dynamic PDF before previewing and you will want to ensure that TextLine allows for more than one occurence (found under Object - Binding, Allow Subform to Repeat when you have that subform selected).
You may also want to put in some validation against the NumberOfLines field to ensure it has a value.
I hope that helps.

HOW TO DISTRIBUTE FORM TO READER AND COLLECT RESPONSES IN READER

I created a fillable form in pro at home and need to distribute to my job which only have adobe reader. How do I distribute and collect responses in my work email if the forms are filled out in reader?

Reader doesn't do that, only Acrobat does.

Copy text restriction and Form Distribution

Hello,
I am doing a project using the trial version of Adobe LiveCycle ES4 designer suite. I want a situation where users can enter data in the form and save it and at the same time they should not be able to copy text from the form.
If I put copy text restriction on the form, then I am unable to distribute the form and vice versa. By form distribution, I am saving a copy on my machine to test it.
Can you please suggest me what should I do to have both copy text restriction & form distribution possible?
A quick response would really be appreciated.
Regards,
Mohit

Hi,
I don't really know if the text field can be selected using Ctl+a, but if that is possible how about adding extra text field that is linked to pulldown menu?
If the usage of the PDF is only for copying, then I would make a formcalc or javascript to combine all the text into one text field so that user only need to copy paste one field.

How to auto collect form responses and get an email notification?

Is there a way to auto collect form responses AND get an email notification? Currently I have my form set up to auto save and collect the responses and its working well but I cannot figure out how to add an email notification as well so we know when to check for new submissions.

[discussion moved to FormsCentral forum]

Collect name, Identity, parentpath and PrimarySmtpAddress of all mail enabled public folders.

Hi,
I’m trying to collect the name, Identity, parentpath and PrimarySmtpAddress of all mail enabled public folders. PrimarySmtpAddress returns empty whatever I do. If I use this same cmd-line then it works fine.
What am I doing wrong? Here is the powershell code I'm using:
Get-PublicFolder \ -Recurse -resultsize unlimited | ? {$_.MailEnabled -eq $true} | Select-Object Name,Identity,parentPath, `
@{label='PrimarySmtpAddress';expression={"$((Get-MailPublicFolder '$_.Identity').PrimarySmtpAddress)"}}
Thanks in advance!
win_builder

The ps code next is getting the info i want to collect:
Credit goes to travis5150 and Chris Dent from expert exchange
cls
$publFolders = get-publicfolder -resultsize unlimited -recurse | ? {$_.MailEnabled -eq $true}
@(foreach ($publFldr in $publFolders){
$objProp = "" | Select Name,Alias,Identity,ParentPath,PrimarySmtpAddress
$objProp.name = $publFldr.name
$objProp.Identity = ($publFldr.Identity)
$objProp.parentpath = $publFldr.parentpath
$objProp.Alias = (get-mailpublicfolder -id $publFldr.identity | select -exp Alias)
$objProp.PrimarySmtpAddress = (get-mailpublicfolder -id $publFldr.identity | select -exp PrimarySmtpAddress)
$objProp
Thanks for your help and time!!
win_builder

Form distribution and collection by e-mail alone?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for