Segmented Form Fills - Different Users

I have been tasked with creating forms for our departments. As an example, there is a contract template where the sales person fills in some data, then it gets sent to the potential client to fill in.
I do not see how to restrict data entry between the two groups. I don't want to allow the clients to adjust the sales data which is mostly pricing.
Could someone be so kind as to either provide an answer or point me to where I can find more info on accomplishing this (using XI Pro)?

There are two ways to prevent the second group from altering the information entered by the first. You can either set the relevant fields to read-only and save, or flatten the fields. Flattening select fields can be done with JavaScript, but it requires Acrobat. Setting fields to read-only can be done with JavaScript and works with Reader.
With a contract, I would suggest flattening, since setting the fields to read-only would not prevent someone from easily altering the fields. It's not so easy that it can happen accidentally or casually, but someone who is motivated could.

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I wrote a stored procedure to get the data from other user's tables.
When I compile the form and run it with the same user I compiled, it works without any error. But when I run the compiled form with another user I get the ORA-04062 (signature of procedure has been changed) error.
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PROCEDURE Get_Scenarios(User_Name IN VARCHAR2, Scen_Table OUT Scenario_Tab) IS
Curs Open_Curs;
i NUMBER;
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'SELECT Seq_No FROM '|| User_Name ||'.scenario';
i := 1;
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I think it should be a better solution to create a package,
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TYPE TYP_TAB_CHAR IS TABLE OF .... ;
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A form have different user group only alter their comment

Dear all:
i have a table (called main_tab) with these columns,
WORK_DATE DATE
work_USER_ID NUMBER
work_USER_NAME VARCHAR2(50)
DEPT VARCHAR2(30)
SHIFT VARCHAR2(3)
CONTRACT_MANAGER VARCHAR2(50)
CONTRACT_HOURS NUMBER
OP_MANAGER VARCHAR2(50)
OP_HOURS NUMBER
HR_MANAGER VARCHAR2(50)
HR_HOURS NUMBER
SIGH_HOURS NUMBER
OP_REMARK VARCHAR2(100)
HR_REMARK VARCHAR2(100)
another table called USER
user_id NUMBER
USER_NAME VARCHAR2(50)
USER_GROUP VARCHAR2(50)
i want to do a form like this ( CONTRACT_MANAGER can add rows)
eg:
work_date is a date type can be selected(do not input manually)
work_USER_ID ,work_USER_NAME ,dept,shift need user input manually
contract_manager, op_manager,hr_manager is different user group
when these different user login application,they can only alter their own comments(CONTRACT_HOURS ,OP_HOURS ,HR_HOURS )
I think this may be a form, but i am not sure how to
please teach me how i can achieve this
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saven

Hi,
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You should create one scheme for each type of user - how the schemes are defined depends on how you define those users, typically, though, it would be some form of SQL statement.
Then, create a form (or, more likely, a report with a form so the user can see the data and click a link to edit it or click a button to create a new record). On that form, for any item except the hidden Primary Key item (which you haven't listed on the table structure?), you can select the Authorization Scheme in the Security section of the page item, report column or button etc. Once an Authorization Scheme has been applied to an object, only users that are in that Scheme can interact with that object.
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Message was edited by: ilivingston: solved

Thanks for the reply, I did spend some time working on this issue... here is what I found...
1) First of all, I did have a custom Points to Inches setting in my Acrobat options... 110 vs 96.   Resetting this allowed for me to see the alignment issue that my colleagues were referencing first hand.
As it turned out, my results were better, but still had inconsistency among different workstations. Leading me to..
2) The MSFT creator uses the default printer in some way to create the PDF. Because the different workstations were using different printers, we were getting different results. If everyone used an HP 1320, nobody would see any difference upon creating / adding fields.
The final solution was to change the Application.Printer to a common network printer before the export operation, and return the Application.Printer to the user default after the export completed. This has provided us with a common ground to work upon; we are lucky to have a network printer that can be used for this purpose, as I can see this becoming non-viable in environments where this would be unavailable.

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I have a registeration form on the site and we have two types of users, one is student and the other is professor. My client wants to just keep one form with tick boxes at bottom of the form i.e Create my account as a Student & Create my account as a Professor. So clicking on any one will process the registeration for the selected user level. (If I select Create my account as a Student, the form should register me as a Student or wise versa)
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The AutoInk plugin seems to write "over" the PDF and is flattened as an annotation. The data is unlikely to be "inputted" into the field and therefore may not be recorded as data. You might want to try this out with a test AcroForm. This might be OK with you, as you just want to print out the completed form. If that is the case then you just need to enable the form for commenting.
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