Indesign forms in Acrobat

Good day all
I have a question about form fields in InDesign CC. I have a book, and in the book are some questions that need answers to be submitted to a moderator.
I know that the submit button will submit the entire form - my question is: is there any way to submit just part/s of it. Think of a workbook full of assessments at different sections in the book, will there be a way of submitting only parts of the book (each assessment on its own)?
Hope you have some good news for me.
Stefan

From within InDesign, no.
In Acrobat you can use JavaScript and form field properties to 'exclude' fields from the submit event on a particular button, either statically or based on some runtime logic. You'd need to insert all of that after the PDF was created, using Acrobat Pro. Bear in mind that the resulting form won't work properly in non-Adobe applications or mobile apps.

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Karen_Little wrote:
The files and the PDFs are all in the same directory.
The tests are on local drives. All indesign files and their related PDFs were in the same directory.
The same for Word and its related PDFs. Note that the PDFs created by Word then read by Adobe Reader worked correctly. They all opened in Adobe Reader.
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Date: 3/28/2013 8:55:32 AM
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer: computer.domain.local
Description:
Fault bucket 3350328530, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: http://oca.microsoft.com/resredir.aspx?SID=5044&iBucketTable=1&iBucket=-944638766&BucketHa sh=f4fe29b3a473e85f7bfa8307ed069a3d
Cab Id: 0
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P2: 10.1.5.33
P3: 50d06a30
P4: KERNELBASE.dll
P5: 6.1.7601.18015
P6: 50b83c8a
P7: c06d007e
P8: 0000c41f
P9:
P10:
Attached files:
C:\Users\Josh\AppData\Local\Temp\WERFE0D.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
These files may be available here:
Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 87f5ca67-97b7-11e2-87e0-d4bed9e5b6b2
Report Status: 0
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-03-28T14:55:32.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>12855</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
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<Data>3350328530</Data>
<Data>1</Data>
<Data>APPCRASH</Data>
<Data>http://oca.microsoft.com/resredir.aspx?SID=5044&iBucketTable=1&iBucket=-944638766&BucketHa sh=f4fe29b3a473e85f7bfa8307ed069a3d</Data>
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<Data>50d06a30</Data>
<Data>KERNELBASE.dll</Data>
<Data>6.1.7601.18015</Data>
<Data>50b83c8a</Data>
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Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
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<Level>2</Level>
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<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
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<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>computer.domain.local</Computer>
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<Data>Acrobat.exe</Data>
<Data>10.1.5.33</Data>
<Data>50d06a30</Data>
<Data>KERNELBASE.dll</Data>
<Data>6.1.7601.18015</Data>
<Data>50b83c8a</Data>
<Data>c06d007e</Data>
<Data>0000c41f</Data>
<Data>b80</Data>
<Data>01ce2bc43884f827</Data>
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<Data>C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll</Data>
<Data>87f5ca67-97b7-11e2-87e0-d4bed9e5b6b2</Data>
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Thank you!

Hi, I am having the same problem as your user when I try to open a pdf form in acrobat. I also have had a similar problem, still unresolved, described here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5146964.
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