How do users submit a form?

Once I post a link to my form and someone fills it out, how is it submitted?

Yes, they will be able to fill-in and save, but it's important that you tell your users to use Adobe Reader. Some PDF viewers (e.g., ones built into browsers like Chrome and FIrefox) do not allow form filling, or if they do, don't have the same functionality as Reader does.
As far as submitting, you can set up a button that when clicked will attempt to initiate an email. Whether this works depends on whether the user's system (email client in particular) is set up. User can always manually attach a file to an email that they initiate, so it's helpful to provide some instructions for this. Don't forget to include the email address.
Finaly, email can't be considered secure, so don't use it for anything that needs to be secure. It also not the most reliable method.

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How do I submit my form as PDF in email?

I just completed a PDF form with a Submit by email button, I was able to set the email id but when i press Submit by Email button, it attaches an XML. How do I make LiveCycle Designer save the form as pdf and attach it to the set email id? Help please

Open your form in Acrobat Professional. Using the Advanced pull down menu choose, "Extend Features in Adobe Reader". You'll get a warning message which includes the following note - "Once reader enabled, certain functions,such as editing document content or inserting and deleting pages will be restricted." Read so you are sure this is what you want then choose Save Now. Reader rights are now enabled.
To answer your question on usage rights, I went right to the acrobate users group and copied their indepth explanation
"To summarize the EULA as it relates to enabling PDFs, you are granted permission for enabling a PDF for a maximum of 500 uses. This means that if you post a PDF enabled form on your Web site and 500 people fill out the form, you're within the licensing agreement. If you enable a form where more than 500 people fill out and submit the form back to you, you're not complying with the licensing in the EULA. There are many uses for staying within the 500 limit. You might want to enable files used as a purchase order form, a travel expense form, a vacation leave form, etc. The form can be used by several Adobe Reader users many times, but needs to stay within the 500 use limitation.
For a huge number of appliications this new enabling feature is designed for people who don't have industrial strength needs for forms distribution that require purchase of LRES. A charity golf tournament, a small conference, a PTA event, etc. are all likely candidates for using the new enabling features in Acrobat Professional."

How can I submit the form back to the server, then reload the page again

Hi
I have 2 comboboxes, one is already populated with data by the time the page is loaded. The second combobox will be populated depending on the value chosen from the first combobox
I need to know how can submit the form to go back to the server with the selected value from the first combobox, get some data from the database and then regenerate the whole page again filling the second combobox with the collected data
for example, here s my select tag:
<select name="country" id="firstBox" onchange="populateSecondList()">
     <option value="" SELECTED>
     </select>
<select name="city" id="firstBox">
     <option value="">
     </select>
what should I have to add in the retrieveSecondOptions() function?

declare a second combo box in a iframe and to iframe tag there is attribute to which you can sepcify the file name like one.jsp
now call onchange event on first combo box and forward request to one.jsp

How to automatically submit a form without clicking the button?

Hi,
Is there any way to submit a form without clicking the button? Any idea is greatly appreciated.
-Joey

well if you are filling some textfields you can do a onchange call so you can submit the form, or use any of the existing functions to do that.

How Do I Submit a Form to a Server?

Overview
- I am working on forms for two seperate websites.
- I have the server information for website1, but I don't
have the information for website2's server at the moment.
- I set up a form on dreamweaver 8.0 and I am trying to get
the user to submit it to my server.
Questions:
1. Do I make the form a PHP file since I want the user to
submit it to a server? If so, I have PHP/ MySQL set up on my
webserver for website1. I hear that email is a very unreliable/
unsafe way to submit forms.
2. What is the code for this or is there a tutorial one of
you might know?
3. Website1 is an FTP and I believe that website2 is a local
server. Would there be a difference in the code besides the
rootfolder?
4. When someone submits a form to the server, is there a new
file that is created in the rootfolder or is it manifested in the
database somehow? I am very unfamiliar with databases.
I have searched over and over again in google and these
forums. All I can find is how to email a form. Even when I tried
that, all I get attached in the email is an .att file that I can't
open unless I download some rogue program that I really don't
trust. I feel submitting to a database is the way to go. Please
help me.
-- Carrion Misery

What you need to find out is what server side scripting can
be used on the
hosting. ASP or PHP or ?
What does the hosting's FAQ/support pages say about form to
email scripts?
Is there a hosting control panel or CPanel? If yes- look in
there.
If you can use PHP scripting, here's a quick list of
instructions for a
particular script:
If you don't want to create the php script yourself- here's a
very short set
of instructions to get a free script working in a few
minutes. Refer to the
docs folder in the expanded zip file for more info.
1)go to
http://boaddrink.com
-->phpformmail
download it.
extract the ZIP file.
2) open formmail.php in dreamweaver
Make the following changes (in code view, turn line numbers
on)
2a)
line 4,
define('CHECK_REFERER', true);
change to:
define('CHECK_REFERER', false);
reason: too many people use a firewall or Norton security to
restrict this.
2b)
Line 43
$referers = array('www.example.com', 'example.com');
change to the url address of your web site.
reason: this probably isn't needed since we just turned the
referrer
checking off. but change it anyway.
2c) *this is to hard-code the recipient address into
the php
file, where it is totally invisible *
Line 46
$recipient_array = array();
change to:
$recipient_array = array('me' =>
'[email protected]);
**of course, replace [email protected] with
the email address
you want to receive the form data
reason: this sets the email address the form results will be
sent to.
2d) give the script a default "From" address to use.
Go to line 41
Change:
define('FROM', null);
to:
define('FROM', 'Example Name <[email protected]>');
substituting your name and email address.
3) now do a File-->Save As and save this file to within
this Local Site
folder. save it as anythingyouwant.php
4) in dw's File Panel, find anythingyouwant.php and upload it
to the remote
site.
5) Now open your form html file in dreamweaver,
5a)click the mouse into the form area, and select the
<form> tag on the
lower left margin of the design window.
In the Property Inspector, it should now show the properties
of the <form>
tag. In the Property Inspector, to the right of the ACTION
line, click the
folder icon and browse to and select the anythingyouwant.php
file
you've saved to within this site.
5b) now go to dw menu-->Insert-->Form
Objects-->Hidden Field
This inserts a hidden form field.
In the property inspector, change the NAME/ID of this field
to: recipient
And the VALUE of this field to: me
the code should look like:
<input name="recipient" type="hidden" id="recipient"
value="me">
This tells the script to use the "me" recipient_alias value
as the email
address to send the form to.
5c: Do you have a form field to collect the user's email
address?
If yes, if this field is named exactly "email" then the
script will use the
user's email as the reply to in the outgoing email
6) Save and upload the form page.
Try the form from the website.
Optional:
1-make a new page for a thank you for submitting message.
In the form, insert another hidden field.
Name: redirect
Value: the full absolute
http:// address to the new thank you page.
If you don't set a redirect value- the form script will build
a "thank you,
here is what you submitted" page. If you want to use that
dynamic page-
upload the .css file that it uses.
2- If you have a field in the form to collect the visitor's
email address,
IF you name this field in the form exactly
email then the visitor's
email address will be the Reply To address in the outgoing
email.
There are 30 or so other optional form fields to control the
form- see the
readme in the docs folder. One of those optional control
fields is
verification.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

I want to have users submit the form in PDF format but it doesn't work using the email submit button

Hi all,
I have a form that I want to be returned to a specific email address as a PDF File. This is so that reservations people can open the pdf, and extract the information from it. Keeping it as a PDF will allow them to easily read and use the form.
When I use the "Add and Email Submit button" approach, as outlined in the "How to" area, everything works fine, except that the format of the submitted file is in xml, not Pdf which is what I need it in.
I then tried adding a Button to the document from the Library, and set it's "Control Type" to "Submit". This provided me with the submit sub-tab, where I set the "Submit Format" to PDF. In the "Submit to Url", I entered the following - "mailto:[email protected]" (without the quotes)
The first approach works, but is not in the PDF format that I need (I believe).
The second approach keeps giving the following error when one selects the submit button - "This operation is not permitted".
We use Lotus Notes (yes, I know...not my favorite either, and it may be the problem here).
Any help that might be provided is greatly appreciated!!
Rob

Thanks, but, using the "free" version of Reader, there is no opportunity to open nor import the xml data - the menu options do not exist - there is no import listed.
If we try to open the xml file directly, then we get an error - something to the effect of "unsupported file type, or the file is corrupted".
I just noticed in my Pro version that there is the command File ->Form Data ->Import Data to Form... command. Is this what you are referring to?
What do you recommend? Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to purchase a few copies of Acrobat Pro for the reservations people to use? I was hoping that the free version of reader would do it, but perhaps not?
Thanks again,
Rob

How can I submit a form that depends on another form?

Hello,
I have a jsp with 2 different forms. The one is a Login form and the other one does some calculations.
In my servlet I want to be able to proceed with the calculation form (when I click submit) only if someone is logged in.
How can I do that? Any suggestions please?

Actually what I did is when I submit the calculation form in my servlet I am requesting the login bean ( this is where I store the username and password if a customer logs in, plus a boolean variable to keep track if someone is logged in or not) like that:
Login login = (Login)session.getAttribute("login");
But I want somehow to get the Bean boolen variable and check if it is true or false, but I don't know how to do it. I did the following and it didn't work:
//create a new boolean variable to store the Bean boolean
boolean checkLoggedIn = request.getIsLogged();
Any suggestions?

How do I submit a form as e-mail in xml and pdf form?

Hi,
can I set up the submit button to send the form data as xml and also include a copy of the filled out pdf-form?
I can make it work whith either xml-file or pdf-form, but not both at the same time.
Hope anyone can help.
K

I know I can import data to a blank form in Acrobat Pro. Is it possible to call Acrobat from the command prompt?
It would be really fine, if we could make Acrobat work together with our in house systems. Or is there another way to import data to a blank form?
As I see it LiveCycle Forms is not an option, because the form data will be handled in a closed enviroment.
K

How do I submit a form to a LC process using the process fields component in LC Designer

I have a PDF Form with the Process Fields component attached.<br /><br />In the FSSubmit component, I have set the URL to <br />http://localhost:8080/soap/services/SAPS_Submission?wsdl, <br />where SAPS_Submission is the name of my process.<br /><br />I open the form through a Flex app, fill out the form and press submit, but get the following error:<br /><br /> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <br />- <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><br />- <soapenv:Body><br />- <soapenv:Fault><br /> <faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:Client.NoSOAPAction</faultcode> <br /> <faultstring>no SOAPAction header!</faultstring> <br />- <detail><br /> <ns2:hostname xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">dtross</ns2:hostname> <br /> </detail><br /> </soapenv:Fault><br /> </soapenv:Body><br /> </soapenv:Envelope><br /><br />The LC process has the schema for the form as an input variable, which is used in the execution of a insertSQLStatement.<br /><br />My knowledge of the process fields component is sketchy at best, but from what I understand, I can use it to submit to workbench without using a servlet?<br /><br />Any help with getting the data from the form to the process using this technique, or clarification about what I should actually be doing would be greatly appreciated...<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Ross Malan

The process fields are ONLY needed if you're planning to use the form offline or through email. If you submit the data back to a servlet, you just need to put a submit button on the form.
Jasmin

Error when users submit online form

Hi,
Although we received several successful forms (applications with essay questions) last night, we also heard this from students and teachers regarding their form submissions last night:
"I had several students tell me today they tried to apply last night and when they hit submit it gave error 'server busy' or 'server not found'."
I spoke to one student who was using Internet Explorer when this happened. Could you please let us know what we can do to avoid this in the future?
Thank you,
Becky

I am sorry to hear about your student's submission woes. I am not aware of any service outages that occurred the other night. If you could give me the approximate time and location of when the issues occurred it would help us in figuring out what may have happened. If anything like this occurs again, if you could make note of the time, location, browser, and form id it would help us in tracking down what the issue might be.
Jeff Canepa
Software Quality Engineer
Adobe Systems, Inc.
[email protected]

How do I submit PDF Form data as an XML file rather than as an XFDF file?

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make this statement work?
var cSubLine = this.getField("SurnameInits").value;
var cBody1 = "Main Instruction data file attached";
var cDest = this.getField("DestEmail").value;
var cEmailURL = "mailto:" + cDest + "?subject=" + cSubLine + "&body=" + cBody1;
this.submitForm({cURL: cEmailURL, cSubmitAs: "XML"});
No file is attached the email that is generated so I assume there is something wrong with the submitForm parameters...If I change XML to XFDF, it works fine.

Try this...
this.submitForm({cURL: cEmailURL, cSubmitAs:"XML", cCharSet:"utf-8"});

How to submit a form in jsp from tag handler class

I have a form in jsp.I created some more links in the tag handler class.Based on the link we click form action will take place.Now how can i submit the form in tag handler class for the links i created in that class.

I have a form in jsp.I created some more links in the tag handler class.Based on the link we click form action will take place.Now how can i submit the form in tag handler class for the links i created in that class.

Submit a form conatining a Collection

How do I submit a form conatining a collection?
I can set the collection in the actionForm before the page is rendered and use the NetUI repeater to itterate thru the collection. The problem is that if I edit any of the fields, the collection is passed back as null while any other elecments of the form are passed back.
Any Ideas?

Are you able to solve this,I have the same problem I know this can be solved using indexed properties I dont how to approach.

How to submit two forms once in one jsp page?

hello all,
My jsp page includes two forms: one form's action is a File Upload servlet, which process file uploading; another is a general servlet to collect user inputs, such as user name, age, etc.
Because the file upload servlet is a legacy component, and it was used in many applications. we could not meger it into our business components.
the system requires the file upload and information collection are submitted once. so we have to submit two forms in one 'Submit' action, at the same time, the information collection servlet need get the information from file upload servlet, such as the uploaded file's url.
I have tried two methods, but all failed
1. Upload form has no a 'Submit' button, when user click the 'submit' button of the information collection form, we use a javascript to submit upload form first, then submit information collection form. Failed at: the second submit dose wait for upload finishing, then the second submit interrupt the upload
2. the javascript only submit upload form, and set HTML body's onUnload event to another javascript that submit information collection form. this time, the file upload sucess, and information collection form sucess at most time. But fail when user click the 'refresh' or 'back' or any navigator buttons of the browser. these action will trigger the page 'unload' event too, but the submit if invalid!
Please tell me how to.

chain the both requests!
- build one mutlitpart request and send it to a servlet that can handle that multipart request (think of using oreilly MultiPartParser).
- check the input (all requiered fields and files there)
- if yes store the user fields and create a socket connection from your servlet to the legacy file upload servlet and post the file this way.
- like this you have full control over the users input and can make sure the file and the fields are just save if all requiered elements are availble.

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