HTTP Submit & FORM Post

Question

Where can I find an example of how to submit form data in a format used by HTML forms (URL-encoded Data - HTTP post)?
Im just learning Acrobat 7.xand Form designer 7.x and cant figure out how to attach code to the Submit HTTP button. A client has a generalized forms post decoder/foward as e-mail program. The url would be, for example:
http://www.ourwebsite.org/cgi-win/deField.exe method="POST"
and it needs the Acrobat form to have the hidden field:
femail=[email protected]   (email address to send form info to)
What we really want to do is:
1.     Use an interactive Acrobat form to collect and validate data from users over the Internet (by querying a database) as they fill in the form
2.     Merge both user-entered data, and user-specific data pulled from the db, into the pdf form
3.     Returned the completed form to the user for printing at their location,
4.     And capture the full data into our database.
.Ive scoured the product literature and the dev user forums and seen some limited FAQs and advice but its pretty murky. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

<[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio <br />news:[email protected]...<br />> Where can I find an example of how to submit form data in a format used by <br />> HTML forms (URL-encoded Data - HTTP post)?<br />> I'm just learning Acrobat 7.xand Form designer 7.x and can't figure out <br />> how to attach code to the Submit HTTP button. A client has a generalized <br />> forms post decoder/foward as e-mail program. The url would be, for <br />> example:<br />><br />> <a href=http://www.ourwebsite.org/cgi-win/deField.exe> method="POST"<br />><br />> and it needs the Acrobat form to have the hidden field:<br />><br />> [email protected]  (email address to send form info to)<br />><br />><br />> What we really want to do is:<br />><br />> 1.    Use an interactive Acrobat form to collect and validate data from <br />> users over the Internet (by querying a database) as they fill in the form <br />> .<br />> 2.    Merge both user-entered data, and user-specific data pulled from the <br />> db, into the pdf form .<br />> 3.    Returned the completed form to the user for printing at their <br />> location,<br />> 4.    And capture the full data into our database.<br />><br />><br />><br />> .I've scoured the product literature and the dev user forums and seen some <br />> limited FAQs and advice but it's pretty murky. Any help will be greatly <br />> appreciated.<br /><br />Maybe I don't understand your question well and so my answer can be of no <br />help for you, but the first two points can be easily done with Designer and <br />a web service that send the data retrieved from a specific request (i.e. <br />your customer inserts his userid and automatically some data appears in the <br />form). You simply have to create a button that retrieves data from this <br />webservice (first you have to create a data connection to your webservice).<br />The third point can be achieved using a print button (that is ready to use <br />in the library). Remember that you can making all the operations you want to <br />do without re-loading the PDF, but simply by doing the call to your <br />webservice after the user filled in the form.<br />The forth point can be achieved using a submit botton that has the <br />controltype set to submit, then you can send your data in the format that <br />you choose. Of course, in the submit URL you can specify an email.<br /><br />Sorry if I don't understand your request :)<br /><br />Ciao,<br />Alessio<br /><br />Bye,<br />Alessio