Live Cycle in Acrobat 8 Professional

Newer than new user and stumbling my way through.
I work at public facility and want to do away with the paper forms. So, I've created a form in Live Cycle. After its filled out (using Adobe Reader?), I want it to be sent to a folder on our server. I've added an http:// Submit button and enter in the folder location (//server/Shared/TEST), but it never seems to make it there when I click Submit.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Steve

>Thanks Aandi. One other question. So after they fill out the form, I suppose they'd have to go to file save.
Well, bear in mind that the free Adobe Reader, by design, cannot save
forms. Unless you "reader enable them" on which there are specifc
limitations e.g. absolute maximum 500 users per form.
>Would they publish the form to a folder on the server or ???
They can save it whereever it is possible, but this is asking a bit
much of an end user. Sounds like you really need the form to be
submitted.
Aandi Inston

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