Possible to do this is Illustrator CS5?

Question

Okay, I'm gonna copy and paste from my other thread (here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3614588#3614588)
I work with surveillance systems, and for one customer, I'm taking existing PDFs they have of site floorplans, loading them into Ilustrator CS5, adding icons and text showing camera locations and fields-of-view, then exporting to PDF, loading that into Acrobat Pro X, and adding a hyperlink to each camera icon that when clicked, will open a window with a still capture from that camera, so they can see what the view is "supposed" to look like.
This works fairly well, and the client is happy with it... there's just one annoyance: every click produces a dialog box warning about opening an external program, and in newer versions of Reader, there's no "Don't display this again" checkbox.  A way around this would be great, but I had a better idea:
I'm already creating layers in Illustrator: one for the floor plan, a second for the camera icons, a third for the text, and a fourth blank one so I can "swap out" the underlying floor/camera info without losing the hyperlinks (anywhere from 16 to 30, depending on the site).
I had the idea that what I could do, is add a separate layer for each camera's sample image, which would allow me to add the image directly to the document, and have it just appear over the floor plan, rather than loading in a separate app.  Then I could have the image layers start out invisible, and toggle the visibility by clicking the camera icon.
Currently I'm exporting to PDF and trying to add the layer-toggle links in Acrobat Pro X... at the moment, trying a Javascript solution, per the other thread, and it's ALMOST working... but at this point, that will be the only thing left that I'm doing in Acrobat.  So I'm wondering if there's a way to do it in Illustrator: add a hyperlink in the document that can be clicked to toggle a specified layer's visibility?  And then export that to a PDF that will maintain that functionality?  That would let me skip using Acrobat at all.
TIA all.

Answer 1

Given...:
Adobe's ceasless hullabaloo about its "integration" between its various apps
Adobe's marketing hype about PDF being "native" to Illustrator
The fact that we are over a decade into the 21st century
...one would think such a thing a matter of course, no?
No.
I can't test it right now on this, my knockaround laptop, but I would not be surprised to find that it can be done using the interactivity-oriented features in InDesign CS5. On the other hand, though, I am also continually frustrated that one cannot set basic parameters for exported PDFs such as ititial view, etc., in the exporting app; so I almost always end up editing an exported PDF in Acrobat Pro anyway.
Once the Javascript is written and attached to a hotspot button in Acrobat, replicating the button for the other cameras should simply involve editing a couple of variables in the script to make it target other layers. Reusing the buttons in other PDFs would be a copy/paste affair.
Adobe wants every project you do to necessarily involve every one of its apps. ;-)
JET