Saving Interactive form as Noninteractive form finally

Hi,
We are creating interactive forms and at the final stage, when the user submits the form, we wish to archive the form as a non-interactive form.
This final archive will be build in the program as soon as the submission is made.
Experts, any idea how could we do that...
Thanks and Regards,
Mona

Hello,
If your form has drop down and list boxes, i think it would better to design a copy of the standrard form as static with text fields replacing the drop downs (Less development time for Adobe forms ) and then making a call with the parameters passed.
We did something like this as the users didnt prefer to see dropdown/ interactive 'like' fields in noninteractive/ static forms.
- anto

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Do we have a way that when we save a Adobe Interactive form , it gets saved as a non-interactive form.
Thanks and regards
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hi,
the Interactive Form UI element has a property..."Enabled"
true->interactive
false->non-interactive
bind this property to a context attribute of type....boolean.
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-Ag.

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Thanks for your suggestion. I haven't tried it yet - busy with some other problems - but I will try it soon and update this thread.
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I searched all through the wikis, blogs, forums etc. and I really couldn't find any example for the issues I tried to describe (maybe that is a problem?). If you have already read some threads about this theme, could you please point me to one? That would be really great!
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