Open e-mail with path(URL) of current file

Question

I'm trying to create a button in a form that will create a new e-mail message containing the URL of the current file (e.g., file://z:\file.pdf) so the user can just click to open it. But I'm no expert with Javascript.
Doing a little research, I've gotten this far with the script for the button:
app.mailMsg(false, "[email protected]", "", "", "Form Subject", "Please see form located here: \n\n "+docurl+"");
It opens a new message, but it's the last part that doesn't work. I can't seem to figure out the command that returns the URL, or how to insert it into the body of the e-mail. Any help? Thanks.

Answer 1

Instead of docurl, try event.target.URL. This references the url property of the Acrobat Document object. Though, since your calling this as a parameter of an AcroForms method it may have to be this.URL (the way you'd reference it from an AcroForm (a form not designed in Desinger). I'm not sure off the top of my head, you'll have to try both and see which works.
Couple of caveats:
1) If the user opens the form, edits it, then clicks this button without saving the form referenced from this link to the file won't reflect the edits.
2) If you send the email, I'm not sure that the URL would make sense in the context of another machine. IE: file://c:/test.pdf might work on my machine, but means nothing on yours if you don't have test.pdf on under c:\ on yours.
Chris
Adobe Enterprise Developer Support