PDF: Adobe Interactive forms pops up SAVE AS dialouge box after modification

Hi,
We have developed Adobe Interactive form uisng Adobe LiveCycle Designer. After creating pdf, whenever I change data in the interacvie form, it is poping up "Save As" dialouge box everytime user saves data. So User is replacing the same file again and again. Is there any setting to get rid of this error?
OS: Windows 7
Adobe Reader: 10.0.1
Regards,
Selva

Hi,
you cannot suppress the save function but you can avoid that the PDF viewer recognizes changes.
Put this script in the layout:Ready event of your form.
event.target.dirty = "false";

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