PleaseHELP!: pass value asp to xfdf, open pdf form prepopulated

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Hi - we're Using Acrobat/Designer 7.0.  Please help..<br /><br />Still working on the passing value from ASP to pdf form.  <br /><br />What I have so far, based on helpful info from this forum, is the following code {see below}  <br /><br />This code prompts to save, then opens the asp page with the value "0000000000000000" as text. <br /><br />My hope is to pass the value and open the pdf form w/o prompting, & to have the identifier field prepopulated.<br /><br />I've tried this with a pdf and xdp form, neither works. What am i doing wrong?  Samples are most welcome. This is rather urgent, as I want to avoid manually creating 100s of pre-populated pdf forms for e-mail.<br /><br />Thanks much, ginger<br /><br />'======================================================================<br /><%@ LANGUAGE = VBScript%><br /><% Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.xdp+xml" %> <br /><br /><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br /><?xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/" xml:space="preserve"<br /><?xfa generator="XFA2_0" APIVersion="2.2.4333.0"?><br /><xdp:xdp xmlns:xdp="Http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/"><br /><xfa:datasets xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/"><br /><xfa:data><br /><fields><br />     <field name="Identifier"<br />          <value>0000000000000000</value><br />     </field><br /></fields><br /><br /><f href="http://localroot/test/applicantform.xdp"><br /><br /></xfa:data><br /></xfa:datasets><br /></xfdf><br /></xdp:xdp>

Answer 1

I am working on this same problem too and after playing with the code above, I found *a solution*.  I am not sure it is exactly what you want to do but it works nonetheless.  It does not prompt the user to download the document because I took out the Content-Disposition header.<br /><br />This is just some proof of concept code in C#:<br /><br />protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {<br />     string xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><xfdf xmlns=\"http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><f href=\"http://SERVERNAMEHERE/TestPDF.pdf\"/><fields><field name=\"CompanyName\"><value>It Worked!</value></field></fields></xfdf>";<br /><br />     Response.Clear();<br />     Response.ContentType = "application/x-pdf";<br />     Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/vnd.adobe.xfdf");<br />     System.Text.ASCIIEncoding ascii = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();<br />     Response.AddHeader("Content-Header", xml.Length.ToString());<br />     Response.BinaryWrite(ascii.GetBytes(xml));<br />     Response.End();<br />}<br /><br />If I run that code, it does actually work and puts "It Worked!" in a form field I named CompanyName in the test PDF document I created.  From playing with it, it does look like you have to pass it the full URL to your source PDF document -- at least I couldn't get it to work if I just entered the PDF document name and not the full URL (even though the PDF was in the same directory as my page).<br /><br />Hope this helps somebody.