Form to echo data before submit

I would like to capture or echo the data from a form before the submit button - I can get a new browser to open but cannot get the data to show - is this possible? Thank you.

There are a couple of ways you can do this. Since you used the term echo, I am guessing you are using php.
You can have the action of the form set to a file that will echo the data that has be input, without it actually being sent to your DB or email, then upon approval, they submit again to have the information go where you want. Seems the long way around the barn.
A simpler method is to do a search of javascript, preview, form, and have a preveiw button and a submit button. That sounds like the easier way.
There was just a discussion about it a week or so ago but I was unable to find it, but I found plenty of JS scripts that would work.
Gary

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Please advice

<?php require_once('Connections/dbAttendance.php'); ?>
<?php
if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) {
function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "")
if (PHP_VERSION < 6) {
    $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue;
$theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue);
switch ($theType) {
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      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "long":
    case "int":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "double":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? doubleval($theValue) : "NULL";
      break;
    case "date":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
      break;
    case "defined":
      $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue;
      break;
return $theValue;
$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
$insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO attendlist (Windowsid, title, firstname, surname, extension, mobile, jobrole, course, cpg, mgrname, room) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
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                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['title'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['firstname'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['surname'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['contactno'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['mobile'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['jobrole'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['courses'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['cpg2'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['mgrname2'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['troom'], "text"));
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$Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $attending) or die(mysql_error());
$insertGoTo = "ReportbyAll.php";
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
    $insertGoTo .= (strpos($insertGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : "?";
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header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));
mysql_select_db($database_dbAttendance, $dbAttendance);
$query_rsattendance = "SELECT * FROM attendlist";
$rsattendance = mysql_query($query_rsattendance, $dbAttendance) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsattendance = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsattendance);
$totalRows_rsattendance = mysql_num_rows($rsattendance);
if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) {
$insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO attendlist (title, firstname, surname, extension, mobile, jobrole, course, cpg, mgrname, room, Adate) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['title'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['firstname'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['surname'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['contactno'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['mobile'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['jobrole'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['courses'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['cpg2'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['mgrname2'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['troom'], "text"),
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['Adate2'], "date"));
mysql_select_db($database_attending, $attending);
$Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $attending) or die(mysql_error());
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header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo));
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Register</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
          font: 100%/0.8 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          background-color: #4E5869;
          margin: 0;
          padding: 0;
          color: #000;
/* ~~ Element/tag selectors ~~ */
ul, ol, dl { /* Due to variations between browsers, it's best practices to zero padding and margin on lists. For consistency, you can either specify the amounts you want here, or on the list items (LI, DT, DD) they contain. Remember that what you do here will cascade to the .nav list unless you write a more specific selector. */
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          margin: 0;
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p {
          margin-top: 0;           /* removing the top margin gets around an issue where margins can escape from their containing div. The remaining bottom margin will hold it away from any elements that follow. */
          padding-right: 15px;
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a img { /* this selector removes the default blue border displayed in some browsers around an image when it is surrounded by a link */
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/* ~~ Styling for your site's links must remain in this order - including the group of selectors that create the hover effect. ~~ */
a:link {
          color:#414958;
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a:visited {
          color: #4E5869;
          text-decoration: underline;
a:hover, a:active, a:focus { /* this group of selectors will give a keyboard navigator the same hover experience as the person using a mouse. */
          text-decoration: none;
/* ~~ this container surrounds all other divs giving them their percentage-based width ~~ */
.container {
          width: 80%;
          max-width: 960px;/* a max-width may be desirable to keep this layout from getting too wide on a large monitor. This keeps line length more readable. IE6 does not respect this declaration. */
          min-width: 780px;/* a min-width may be desirable to keep this layout from getting too narrow. This keeps line length more readable in the side columns. IE6 does not respect this declaration. */
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.header {
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/* ~~ This is the layout information. ~~
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.content {
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          float: right;
          margin-left: 8px;
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          font-size: 1px;
          line-height: 0px;
</style>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextField.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryValidationSelect.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextField.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryValidationSelect.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='TSScript/yahoo.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='TSScript/event.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='TSScript/dom.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='TSScript/calendar.js'></script>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='TSScript/TSCalendar/calendar.css' />
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='TSScript/TSCalendar/TSCalendar.js'></script>
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<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<img src="Cerner At Imperial2.jpg" width="960" height="150" alt="" />
</div>
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          <td> </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
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              <option value="Mrs">Mrs</option>
              <option value="Mdm">Mdm</option>
              <option value="Mr">Mr</option>
              <option value="Dr">Dr</option>
              <option value="Professor">Prof</option>
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        </tr>
        <tr>
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        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><div align="right">* Surname</div></td>
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            <input name="surname" type="text" id="surname" tabindex="4" size="40" maxlength="30" />
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          <td> </td>
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Iam using Oracle ADF with EJBs.
I have a single selection table that displays rows of data returned from a function of my data control.
The columns of my table are editable so that the user can change the data. The user selects a row, changes the data in one or more columns of the row and saves the data by means of a submit button. The code in the submit button, identifies the row of the corresponding iterator that the user clicked on and updates the data in the database (using the 'mergeEntity' function of the EntityManager)
Before saving the data, I want to put some logic to check whether the user has actually changed some data to avoid unnecessary updates in the database . But for this I need a technique to detect that the user has indeed changed some data in the table row.
One technique I have been using so far was to isolate the iterator row of the table and then query the corresponding row in the database table and compare their values.
Except from dummy, this technique is not efficient if the table contains many rows.
Moreover, in my case I have observed that on successive updates on the same row , the query on the database returns the new values (user changed values) and not the actual values contained in the database table. This means that when the user updates an iterator row the cached data affect also the results of the SELECT statement from the actual database table!!! Isn't this strange ?
Can somebody propose me a neat method to detect when the user has changed the the data of an iterator row ?

Hey Alan,
The below solution seems overly complicated to me and can not be implemented without a custom screen and/or the use of JavaScript. Also, if your main concern is that a user may accidentally loose all their data because they closed the browser window or the session times out before they hit the save button then this solution does not help you.
There are a couple of simpler approaches you can take here:
# If the use of JavaScript is permissible you can hook into the windows 'onUnload' event, and pop-up a message box which gives the user the opportunity to cancel closing the window and save their case if they haven't already.
# Implement an autosave feature by hooking into one of events provided by web determinations. A simple (but rather naive) way of doing this would be to hook into the OnRenderScreenEvent and call save on the interview session every time the event fires. This guarantees that all the data the user has submitted will aways automatically be saved, thereby removing the need to make sure the user manually saves their data before closing the browser.
Automatically making Web Determinations close a browser window has to be done using JavaScript. However, doing so means that a) it won't work for people who turn off JavaScript, which is commonly done for accessibility reasons b) you'll likely run afoul of the browser's security mechanism (they generally won't let you close a window that you didn't open and some really don't like you doing that at all).
Thanks,
Kristy

How to open a pdf form with fdf data

Hi all,
I am working on a new project. In that, I have to load a PDF contract form with FDF data on Internet Explorer Window.
I don't know how to do it. Actually I tried using this format on the URL (while loading the respective page)
http://www.example.org/pdf_file_name.pdf#FDF=http://www.example.org/fdf_file_name.fdf
But it opened as an empty pdf document. . Actually I need it with the fdf data.
Can anyone know any other way to do this?
Or is this not possible to open a pdf form with fdf data in a browser?
Thanks in advance
Annamalai

@ Bernd. It still opens a text file
Here's my FDF file sample
%FDF-1.2
%âãÏÓ
1 0 obj
<<
/FDF << /Fields
<</V (07/22/2009)/T (Loan_Note_Date)>><</V (22.29)/T (Loan_AnnualPercentage_Rate)>></V ()/T (Seller_ESignatureArea1_Date)>><</V (GA Dealer)/T (Seller_Signer_FullNameTitle)>><</V ()/T (ThirdParty_ESignatureArea1_Date)>>
/F (MARSMFLZ.pdf)/ID [ <1f0b6b55f345db39e8246247138fe562><e960588530b0d06d35cd618b34d4c314>
]>>
>> endobj
trailer
<<
/Root 1 0 R
>>
%%EOF
(I have uploaded the related pdf file before.)
Just now I got an idea to use WScript (the code is written in javascript)
ws = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell");
ws.Run('"AcroRd32.exe" "C:\\annukar\\Refi\\Refinance_Module\\Forms\\Contract.fdf"', 1, true);
this opens my fdf document in Acrobat reader using command prompt.
I have a doubt now, can i use some string in place of "C:\\annukar\\Refi\\Refinance_Module\\Forms\\Contract.fdf" in the above command?
I mean something like fdf_file = "C:\\annukar\\Refi\\Refinance_Module\\Forms\\Contract.fdf"
and replace ws.Run('"AcroRd32.exe" fdf_file,1,true). I tried it but it doesn't work Any idea's? Since the path will not remain the same always. So i need to change it

Need to have a form to enter data and then send data to database

I'm looking for assistance with a form created; the end user will complete the form and then press the submit button to email it. Next I need to import that data to either a database or excel spreadsheet.

If you are looking for a consultant with expertise in Adobe products, may I suggest the Partner Finder at
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PDF form storing old data

Hello, I am new to the forum and was hoping someone here would be able to help me with an issue I have run into or help me find someone who could.
I was recently working on a security assessment of a website and I found a PDF document for an employement application that appears to store old data within the code of the document. To explain further:
- I found the PDF form document on the website. When downloaded and opened with Reader it appears blank. The document is avaiable to download and then you are directed to email it to HR, so there is no online submission on the website.
- When opened in a text editor it displays mostly encoded text and numbers but there is portion of the document with lines that correspond to the fields in the document and contain information from previous instances of the document that has been filled out.
Has anyone encountered this before? If yes are there any remediations for a PDF form storing unwanted data within the code of the document?
Thanks in advance and sorry if I have posted this in the wrong location.

Filling in online forms should never allow the form to be saved back to the website. Usually such a form (or any online document) would go to the user's browser's temp folder, and be saved in there. I don't know how it was possible that user data got back onto the web server form (unless it was originally uploaded like that).
What I would do if I encountered such a situation
upload the clean, empty form
make sure the file is read-only
test it by filling in the form online
see if the original form has been altered in any way

Date Validation - End date before Start date

This may be a very simple validation but I seem to be having trouble. I've got a form which requires a date range to be selected (Date Picker fields)...a Start date, and an End date.
I've created a Function Returning Boolean validation with the code as:
begin
if :P1_END_DATE < :P1_START_DATE then
return false;
else
return true;
end if;
end;This works 99%, except when the date range spans years.
For example, when I select '21-Dec-2010' in the start date and '4-Jan-2011' in the end date. The validation fails, and thinks the end date is before the start date.
Do I need to compare the year part of the date, before doing the rest? Or is the '<' not suited for this sort of check?
Edited by: djston on Dec 20, 2010 12:13 PM

Sorry, false alarm, it looks like I had my logic a little backwards :)

Basic form with external data

I am not sure if I am overcomplicating something I am trying to do with designer/Acrobat.
I am trying to create an interactive work order.
Much of the basic layout has been done, and most of the fields are doing what I want them to do, though I still have a little here and there that needs some tweaking. But before I get to doing those, my primary focus is to have the form access external data.
For example. I have a table in the form that has the following fields.
Quantity Part Number Description Price Amount
Quantity, price and amount are all internal to the form itself, and are fillable by the user of the form, with the exception that the amount field is a calculated value based on the previous two. My intention is that these fields are only filled by the user of the form when needed.
My issue however is the Part Number and Description fields, which has me quite perplexed on what would be the best way to go.
From some of what I have read here and there in this forum and elsewhere, it seems that I have to have some kind of complex setup regarding sql servers if I want to use a simple database file (access for example) where I can edit as needed on the fly to pull data into the form as needed, using for example, a pulldown, to populate the two fields.
I can muddle through that for my personal needs, however, my intention is to provide the form to co-workers so they can use it without having to set up what I am seeing as extremely complex setup of installing and configuring sql servers and so forth. The computers will not be connected to any networks, these are field laptops.
What I was hoping was to provide the database with the pdf file and let the end user simply copy those to a folder and use them without much fuss, aside from them being able to edit the database file to add their own custom information. I was also considering adding in the ability for them to save and recall customer contact information as well.
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a programmer. I am a technician. I can figure out how to use access easily enough. But beyond this...well...its all greek to me if you get my gist.
Am I overcomplicating the matter. Is there an easier approach to what I want to do? Are there any complete samples (includes all the files needed) available that I can use and study to accomplish what I am trying to do?
Appreciate any input from you folks here.
Thanks.

Hi,
There are (at least) two ways of approaching this.
One is to have the Part No. and Description in an external source (eg database) and then set up a data connection in the form to access this information. One problem is that if the user are using Adobe Reader, then the data connections will not work. See summary of deployment options here: https://acrobat.com/#d=3lGJZAZuOmk8h86HCWyJKg
Another option is to hard wire the Part No and Description into the form. There is an example here and links to a tutorial on Acrobat Users website. Linking Drop Down Fields / Combo Boxes
Good luck,
Niall

Forcing the user to save before submit.

Hi,
I need to force the user to save the form before submit.
How can I do that ? Please help.

Hi,
You can use the dirty flag. If your users have Acrobat/Reader 9.1 or above then you could also use the cancelAction method (however this is a bit flaky in I think version 10.0).
For example, in the button's preSubmit event:
if (event.target.dirty == true) {
xfa.event.cancelAction = true;
You would also want to include a beep and/or messageBox warning to the user.
Hope that helps,
Niall

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