Show/Hide action & Submit Form action on mobile apps

I want to set up multiple small "help" buttons in various places on my PDF form so that when the user clicks on them, additional information is shown.
However, my understanding is the the show/hide action is not supported on most mobile devices using the free Adobe Reader.
Do tool tips work on mobile devices?
Does the Submit Form work on mobile devices?
Can anyone help with a suggestion/workaround?

Hi,
bind the value properties of the input fields to a managed bean in viewScope. E.g. value=#{viewScope.managedBean.attributeName}. This then guarantees that the bean content survives the request and the data is still there
Frank

Similar Messages

Is there a way to convert a fillable form to a mobile app?

I have a business process that involves a network of affiliated people collecting data via a particular document which they then sign and return to me. This could be something like a customer filling in a complex order entry form and returning it to me to place an order. You could also imagine this like the IRS which provides forms for individuals to fill in and return.
I would like to offer, as an alternative, a mobile app (iOS and Android) that is based on the same forms. Imagine, for example, the IRS forms: there are desktop apps (such as TurboTax) that put a GUI form on screen, collect the data, and produce the forms necessary to print out and/or submit electronically. I want to present my forms in a mobile app using 'native' UI widgets.
Is there an Adobe tool that can do this conversion process? I know I can use Acrobat and convert documents from Word to fillable PDF form. And I believe I can use Adobe DC to convert fillable PDF forms to web forms. Is there something similar to take me from fillable PDF to mobile app?

TurboTax or H&R Block Tax software only print a copy of the inputted data to a PDF for the client's records. The input screens and data storage are all independent of the PDF printer.

Submit user input in mobile app

So I'm a newbie and have just been playing around with flash builder. I've been trying to figure out how to be able to allow the user to input info and it send it to an email thru php. I've found many ways to do this on a desktop version just not for a mobile app. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Here is my modified code. I've gotten it to accept text, but now am having a problem getting it to display what I want. I'm sure I may just be mising something simple. Also, is there a way to get teh label "email" and the text boxto be on the same line? This would just make it look nicer.
Here's what the text box displays after clicking on "Submit!": [email protected]
I've tried several things, but just can't figure it out...
Thank you.
<CODE>
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class guestTEST extends Applet
{ TextField name, email;
String name2;
public void init()
{ setBackground(Color.black);
setForeground(Color.yellow);
Label name$=new Label("Name:");
add(name$);
name=new TextField(10);
name.requestFocus();
add(name);
Label email$=new Label("Email:");
add(email$);
email=new TextField(15);
email.requestFocus();
email.setEditable(false);
add(email);
Button btn1=new Button("Submit!");
btn1.addActionListener(new btn1lis());
add(btn1); }
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
{if(ae.getSource() instanceof Button)
{String name2=name.getText();
class btn1lis implements ActionListener
{ public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
{ email.setText(name2+"@email.com");
name.requestFocus(); }}
public void paint(Graphics g)
// <applet code="guestTEST.class" height=200 width=250> </applet>
</CODE>

Show/hide navigation bar by programming (ADF Mobile)

As normal It need to pre-setting at admf-application.xml to hide or show.
but I want to control it with programming, Is possible to control that ?

Found method, just using
AdfmfContainerUtilities.showNavigationBar();
AdfmfContainerUtilities.hideNavigationBar();

How to show/hide status bar programatically in openGL ES app?

Ok, I started with an openGL ES app and can draw my window where I want to display it.
However, even though the xib file says <<no status bar>>, when I run my app, I get a status bar with a white background which overlays the top part of my graphics. In my app. I want to use all 320x480 pixels for the background tableau and have no need for a status bar...
How can I enable or disable this programmatically?
Thanks!

The best way to hide the status bar for the life of your program is in Info.plist:
1) Expand the Resources folder in the Xcode Group & Files tree and open Info.plist;
2) If you already have a key named "UIStatusBarHidden", continue with step 5;
3) Ctrl-click in the last row of the Key column and select Add Row from the floating menu;
4) Copy and Paste UIStatusBarHidden into the edit cell for the new row and hit Return;
5) Ctrl-click on UIStatusBarHidden and select Value Type->Boolean from the menu;
6) A check box should now appear in the Value column; check that box;
7) If unsure about what you've done, close the Info.plist window, select Don't Save, and start over;
8) Cmd-S (File->Save from the top Xcode menu) to save Info.plist.
If you want the status bar to return at some point:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
If you don't wish to change any of your OpenGL files to .m, just wrap the above in an extern C function (e.g. in main.m).
- Ray

Why do show/hide buttons show when PDF is opened?

I've created an interactive PDF with a series of show/hide buttons with rollover actions. When I export and open the PDF, some of the target buttons show up. If I mouseover, they correct themselves and go to their correct hidden state until I mouseover. Is this a bug and is there any way to keep them hidden from the start? Note that the target buttons overlap some, and I'm wondering if that is part of the problem so I'll test that, although not having them overlap isn't a viable solution.
Thanks!

Thanks for the response. Hidden until triggered was checked. I rebuilt the buttons and they seem to work fine now. It seems like InDesign is very finicky about the order of operations.

Mail to Submit form.

I have made an editable PDF with textfields and a submit form button. Problem, the mailto - submit form - button isn't working. Any ideas how to make it work? Also how do I remove permissions so people can edit and save the PDF with any PDF program.
Thanks
Nathan
(I used URL: mailto:[email protected])
InDesign CS6
OSX 10.6.8.

It seems you have put the correct URL in submit form action.
mailto:[email protected]
So when you press the submit button it should open your email client, eg. outlook.
In order to edit and save, you need to enable reader extension in Acrobat.
In case you sill have issues with submit form, share the .indd file or write up steps to reproduce the issue.
Thanks.
-Sagar

Distributed form missing "automatic" Submit Form button

I am going crazy and running out of time.
I created a form in Acrobat. I distributed the form using SharePoint. It worked great. For me and my test user. I sent the distributed file to my boss so she could try it and there was no Submit Form button. The purple forms bar was there; Highlight Fields was there; there was no Submit Form button. I tried it on another user's computer and no Submit Form was there. I tried it on our terminal server with a test user (set up like a standard user), and there was a Submit Form button. I tried it on a computer outside our network and no Submit Form button was there. I also had my boss try it in the terminal server (known working computer) and no Submit Form button was there.
I have looked around the net and found a JavaScript reference that hid a Submit Form button, but that is a different, ugly, email-only button meant for backwards-compatibility.
This is so effing frustrating. I can't find a single reason the Submit Form button will show up for some and not others.
I submitted it via e-mail. I open it within Terminal Services, logged in as me, and the Submit button wasn't there. I open it with my Test user (a standard user, not admin or anything) and the Submit button is there. I open it on my local machine and the Submit button is there. WTF IS GOING ON, ADOBE??? I am so frustrated right now.

On this machine I only have AA5. I was able to open the first form, but saw no submit button anywhere. The second form would not open. I might try it with AA7 a bit later (the only versions I have at home).
I was able to check the various radio buttons and type in the text boxes. The text boxes seem to wrap correctly.
I assume folks will be fine with the exceeds expectations being on the left. In many surveys, the best is on the right and not on the left. However, I am not sure there is any standard for that and you have been consistent. I was wondering how you were going to take care of the signatures. It looks like you are going to do them by hand - I guess the advantage is that all the signers would see the entire evaluation before signing. The alternative would be to introduce digital signatures in some sense, possibly using the Acrobat route.
Again, I see no submit button. Bill

Why does the revealed image flicker when using the Show/Hide feature?

I started using the Show/Hide Button and Forms function in InDesign CS6 and have had some peculiar things happen. I was mocking up some samples and on the swf version if you hover over the left side of the blue rectangle all is fine but if you move to the right side of the blue rectangle the image starts to flicker. When you hover over the red rectangle the pop-up image just flickers constantly. I guess there must be some issue with having the button for a revealed image under some portion of the revealed image. See: http://www.idugsf.com/_a/FI_BookSamples.html .
The problem went away when the button and the revealed image did not overlap.
This problem didn't occur with another file I had originally created in CS5.
On the pdf version the buttons which are on their own layer behind the revealed image moved to the front in the pdf: http://www.idugsf.com/_a/FI_BookSamples.pdf
[email protected]

Remove the dimensions in the following
<div class="tooltipContent" id="sprytooltip11"> <img src="pix/1-pp-all-490x480.jpg" width="850" height="750" /></div>
Gramps

Hiding the "Submit Form" button in Reader

I am referring to the "Submit Form" button that is part of the application (just to the right of the Highlight Fields button) rather than one that appears on the PDF document itself.
This is for a PDF form for a company with many branches.
I want to create a form that users can fill out and save in Reader, but I don't want them to submit it electronically, because I need them to provide a photo as well. I just want them to save the filled-out form and then email it together with a photo to their local branch manager, and I do not have a complete list of branch managers; I am assuming that the user knows the email address of their branch manager. So I either want to hide the Submit Form botton or change it to Save Form.
I am trying this on a PC (specifically Acrobat 9, Acrobat Reader 9 and Windows Vista Home Premium), and also on a Mac. On both platforms, when I take an existing form and distribute it to get one that can be filled out n Reader, Acrobat generates a form that Reader displays with the Submit Form button.

Here is the answer to my own question. Don't use Distribute Form to generate the Reader-enabled form. Instead, in Acrobat 9, go to Advanced --> Extend Forms Fill-in and Save in Adobe Reader to generate the form. In Acrobat X, go to File>Save as.

With a PDF Dynamic form using show/hide actions, how to ensure that when the completed form is saved, closed and re-opened, the form still show the fields as before it was closed?

With a PDF Dynamic form using show/hide actions, how to ensure that when the completed form is saved, closed and re-opened, the form still show the fields as before it was closed?
I have developed a form with fields hidden by default, that become visible based on box ticked or radio button selections.
My problem is that, when I close the form and re-open it, it comes back to it's default presentation, regardless of the information already recorded in the form (including in the now hidden fields.
How to correct that
Thanks in advance for any hint you can provide.

I've had the same problem. This solved it...
Go to the "Form properties..." in the File-menu. Select "Run-time" to the left and in the box "Scripting" Preserve scripting changes to form when saved: choose Automatically (Script-based state changes are saved locally in an insecure fashion. This option cannot be used for certified forms).
Hope it works for you to...

How to clear grey loading screen and animated gif (Dynamic Action with "Show Processing" on submit)

APEX V4.2.3
DB 11.2
I have a classic report on page 1. I have a region button called "Export" (defined by a submit dynamic action with "show processing=Yes") that submits the page and then via a branch directs me to page 2 which has a slightly different version of the report on page 1 (i.e. no breaks) which I want to capture as a CSV export. Therefore I've set the report template on page 2 to " Export:CSV".
Now when I click on the page 1 export button the grey screen and loading gif appears indicating that the report is executing and then as expected, page 2 doesn't appear but instead the standard open/save window's dialog box appears asking to open or save the generated CSV file. All good..but the grey loading screen remains. How do I clear this loading screen and get back to the context of page 1 ?
thanks in advance
PaulP

Hi PPlatt,
We would love to help but you left out one crucial part of the puzzle: namely how does your CSV report get exported. With the way it is setup (a redirect to another page), I'm going to assume you do that because you have some PL/SQL on that page that prints the CSV.
Now there are two questions that are crucial here:
- How do we stop the icon from bugging us on the screen
- How do we communicate with the browser that it should no longer display the loading icon
The first question is rather easy, two simply lines of codes can do that:
$('#apex_wait_popup').hide();
$('#apex_wait_overlay').hide();
But when do we use this code? Quite simple when the document is downloaded. When is it downloaded? At the end of the PL/SQL code that prints the document to the browser.
What you could do is at the end of that code give an application item a certain value. For example :AI_PRINTED := 'Y';
Then all you need to do is let the browser ask for the value. You could do this by using JavaScript to continuously fire AJAX to the server using a JS timing event:
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp
Better would be a Server send event, but since you left out another crucial piece of information: your browser, I will not go deeper into this.
Start this timing event when someone asks for the document, and end it as soon as the process returns that :AI_PRINTED equals 'Y'.
Despite the lack of information, I hope I have given, or at least inspired you to get to the solution.
Regards,
Joni

Unable to get the "Submit a form" action working with Webmail: Gmail

I am attempting to create interactive PDF forms for the website which the end user will email back once filled out.
I have added a link to the form that runs the "Submit a form" action, this appears to work if you have a mail client installed, but if you specify Webmail "Gmail", the system appears to start the process with:
First asking you for the email account details to add
You are then asked to allow Adobe Acrobat permissions to your access your email account
It then attempts to create a draft message but fails with: "Error while creating message ..."
NB: I have logged into my Gmail account on the client PC and I am able to send emails.
Any ideas if this has a known problem and if a fix is available, without a fix it makes interactive PDF's a bit pointless?
Message was edited by: Neil Newman

Hi Aniket,
To the Clusters .. do you mean at the j2ee engine side?can you please give me info in detail
Thnx for valuable inputs
Vijay
Message was edited by:
NR

Unable Submit Form Value to Action when running struts-portlet in OracleAS

Hi,I have develop a portlet using struts & pdk, after that deploy it by OC4J and register the
provider at Oracle Application Server 10g 10.1.2.2.
However the formbean value is unable passing to action after clicking submit button,this problem
doesn't comeout when i run my code as stand alone application.
here is my application code:
1. Action Class:
public class ZoneAction
extends DispatchAction
public ActionForward display(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form,
                               HttpServletRequest request,
                               HttpServletResponse response)
    throws IOException, ServletException
    ZoneHibernate zh = new ZoneHibernate();
    List list = zh.retrieveAllZone();
    ZoneForms zf = new ZoneForms();
    ZoneForm blankForm = new ZoneForm();
    list.add(blankForm);
    zf.setZoneForms(list);
    request.setAttribute("zoneForms", zf);
    return mapping.findForward("success");
2.Provider.xml:
<provider class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultProviderDefinition">
   <session>true</session>
   <passAllUrlParams>true</passAllUrlParams>
   <portlet class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.DefaultPortletDefinition">
      <id>1</id>
      <name>irmsPortlet</name>
      <title>iRMS Portlet</title>
      <description></description>
      <timeout>40</timeout>
      <showEditToPublic>false</showEditToPublic>
      <hasAbout>false</hasAbout>
      <showEdit>false</showEdit>
      <hasHelp>false</hasHelp>
      <showEditDefault>false</showEditDefault>
      <showDetails>false</showDetails>
      <renderer class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.RenderManager">
         <renderContainer>true</renderContainer>
         <renderCustomize>true</renderCustomize>
         <autoRedirect>true</autoRedirect>
         <contentType>text/html</contentType>
         <showPage class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.http.StrutsRenderer">
         <defaultAction>/jsp/zone_maintenance.jsp</defaultAction>
         </showPage>
      </renderer>
   </portlet>
</provider>
3. Action Mapping in struts-cofig.xml:
<action-mappings>
    <action path="/ZoneMaintenance"
            type="my.com.irms.action.ZoneAction"
            name="zoneForms"
            scope="request"
            parameter="action"
            input="/jsp/zone_maintenance.jsp">
      <forward name="success" path="/jsp/zone_maintenance.jsp"/>
    </action>
</action-mappings>
4.jsp:
<pdk-html:form action="/ZoneMaintenance.do">
-div id="action"-<pdk-html:hidden name="zoneForms" property="action"/>-/div-
<logic:notEmpty name="zoneForms" property="zoneForms">
<table border="1">
<thead>
            <tr>
                <th><bean:message key="zone.zone"/></th>
                <th><bean:message key="zone.disc"/></th>
           </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<logic:iterate id="zone" name="zoneForms" property="zoneForms" indexId="i">
            <tr id="tr${i}">
                <td>
                  <pdk-html:hidden name="zoneForms"
                                  property="zoneForms[${i}].rowStatus" value=""/>
                  <pdk-html:hidden name="zoneForms" property="zoneForms[${i}].id"/>
                  <input type="checkbox" onclick="update()">
                </td>
                <td><pdk-html:text name="zoneForms"
                                       property="zoneForms[${i}].zone" size="10"
                                       onchange="rowDataChanged('tb1',${i})"/></td>
                <td><pdk-html:text name="zoneForms"
                                       property="zoneForms[${i}].disc" size="30"
                                       onchange="rowDataChanged('tb1',${i})"/></td>
            </tr>
</logic:iterate>
</tbody>
</table>
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="submitForm('save')"/>
</logic:notEmpty>
<input type="button" value="Display" onclick="submitForm('display')"/>
</pdk-html:form>
5.javascript for submitForm():
function submitForm(param)
        document.getElementById("action")
       .getElementsByTagName("input")[0].value = param;
        document.forms[0].submit();
6.web.xml
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1252'?>
<web-app>
<description>Empty web.xml file for Web Application</description>
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
          org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>config</param-name>
      <param-value>
           /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
      </param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
    <description>Extended Portal
                 SOAP Server</description>
    <servlet-name>SOAPServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
           oracle.webdb.provider.v2.adapter.SOAPServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>resourceServletMapping</param-name>
      <param-value>/pdkresource</param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet>
    <description>Image resource server</description>
    <servlet-name>ResourceServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
         oracle.webdb.provider.v2.adapter.ResourceServlet
    </servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>SOAPServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/providers</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>SOAPServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/providers/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>ResourceServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/pdkresource/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
    <session-timeout>35</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<mime-mapping>
    <extension>html</extension>
    <mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
    <extension>txt</extension>
    <mime-type>text/plain</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
</web-app>
Can anyone help me? thanks.

It is probably easier to do with with a standard tag than the <html:button> tag, as it means you can nest the
<input type="button" name="more" value="more" onclick="setID(<bean:write name="bloodbankList" property="id"/>)"/>or maybe like this:
<bean:define id="bbId" name="bloodbankList" property="id"/>
<html:button property="More" value="More" style="color: #00007D; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 2pt; background-color: #6B719C; border: 2 solid #00007D"   onclick="<%= "setID(" + id + ");" %>" />Cheers,
evnafets

Dynamic action - show/hide region based on LOV which returns ID

Hi folks,
this should be simple, so someone who works with dynamic actions.
I have a LOV which is based on below query:
select OBJECT_ID, KOD
from x_data x;
retuns:
   ID          KOD
    492961 BMW
    492964 VOLVO
    492960 MERCEDES
    492963 VOLKSWAGEN
    492959 SKODAItem :P200_KOD is based on LOV which displays KOD and returns ID.
On my page I have also 1 region called TEST_REGION.
I would like to set up a dynamic action shich will SHOW/HIDE a TEST_REGION based on selected value in item :P200_KOD (LOV). Region should be showed if displayed (KOD) value of selected ID starts with 'V%'
By other words, if below query returns any record, then SHOW, else HIDE:
   select *
    from x_data x
where x.kod like 'V%'
     and x.object_id = :P200_KOD;How should I define a triggering condition for dynamic action, for item :P200_KOD?
Thanks,
Tomas

Hi,
One way:
Create advanced dynamic action.
Name : Hide region
Event : Change
Selection Type : Item(s)
Items(s) : P200_KOD
Condition : JavaScript Expression
Value :
$(this.triggeringElement).children("option:selected").html().substring(0,1) !== "V"Action : Hide
Fire On Page Load : True
Hide all page items on the same line : No
False Action : Show
Fire On Page Load : True
Show all page items on the same line : No
Selection Type : Region
Region : TEST_REGION
Regards,
Jari
http://dbswh.webhop.net/dbswh/f?p=BLOG:HOME:0

Show/Hide action & Submit Form action on mobile apps

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for