Submit button(s) on a form

Following all the instructions I cannot make a pdf that will submit the filled out forms to my email address. What is the trick. I usually get a message not allowed. As long as I preview in Acrobat Professional 8.0 everything works fine but when in Adobe Reader or any other pdf reader, no luck. I want this to work in Adobe Reader so that my students can respond to forms with a simple submit click.
HELP! and thanks in advance.
JHC
[Mac Pro 10.5.2 - 4MB L2 cache - 4 GM memory]

Thank you so much. That did it.
I knew there was something I was not doing correctly. I am new to Acrobat so have not gotten used to too many of the tricks and requirements but after a couple of hours going the wrong way won't forget this one.
Thanks again.
JHC

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How do I add a submit button to a pdf form?

hello
I am trying to add a submit button to a pdf form... is this possible though forms central or Acrobat Pro?

If it is a PDF you created with FormsCentral, then yes, it should have a Submit button. See this for more info: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat-com/formscentral/help/create-fillable-pdf-form.html and http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat-com/formscentral/help/create-forms-locally-save-them.html
If it's a fillable form created with Acrobat Pro, and you want to collect data with FormsCentral, then you import that existing PDF file into FormsCentral and add a Submit button to the form: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat-com/formscentral/help/navigate-formscentral.html#import_exi sting_fillable_pdf_forms
I hope that helps,
Brian

How do I add a functional "submit button" to a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI ? I created the pdf form in Adobe Forms Central.

How do I add a functional "submit button" to a pdf form in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI ? I created the pdf form in Adobe Forms Central. It's for an online Diet Questionnaire. After people complete the form I'd like them to click "SUBMIT" and the completed form will be emailed to me.

This can be a bit confusing because Acrobat 11 comes with the desktop app that allows you to create simple PDF forms without having a FormsCentral account. Some people find this helpful, but you need to understand that when you generate the PDF form, it is Reader-enabled by Acrobat. In order to edit the form further in Acrobat, you have to create a non-enabled copy of the form. You do this in Acrobat by opening the form and selecting: File > Save a Copy
and opening the copy. It is not opened automatically.
You can now add a button and set it up to submit by email, either using a "Submit a form" action or the submitForm JavaScript method. You can set it up to include just the form data or the entire PDF, and will want to use a mailto type URL. Submitting the form to the FormsCentral server has a number of important advantages over email (much more reliable, more secure, etc.), so you might want to consider it.
If the form needs to be saved with Reader versions prior to 11, then you will need to Reader-enable the document. In Acrobat 11 you do this by selecting: File > Save As Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools

Submit button from Interactive adobe form in Web Dynpro ABAP

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Hi Michelle,
Could you tell me how you resolved the problem - as I'm facing exactly the same issue!
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Hi can anyone help me out to know hoe to use the submit button in adobe interactive form in abap web dynpro .
Iam creating a adobe form abap web dynpro . There i need to use the submit button to trigger some action in the adobe interactive form .
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Could you tell me how you resolved the problem - as I'm facing exactly the same issue!
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2 Submit Buttons --- doesn't process form

I previously was utilizing one button and the cancelAction command. However, this was causing the form to be submitted when used in the preSubmit event.
I have recently implemented a 2 submit button solution to a form, which works beautifly for validation. All my edits are executed when they are suppose to be. However, now the form does not submit. When I click the complete button, noting happens.
I have regular button name Validate, where I do all of my edit checks, and it calls the click event of a submit button, Button1, if all edits pass. I use the command Button1.execEvent("click");
The click event of Button1 is greyed out, not sure if that is an issue.
Has anyone ever encountered this before?

Hi,
I am guessing that you have used a submit by email button, which automates the submit process. As a result it does not have a click event. I would recommend using a regular button with script in its click event that will do the submit. There are examples of single button submit here, which you should be able to adapt for your hidden submit/regular button: http://assure.ly/eUR4wJ.
Hope that helps,
Niall

Submit Button in adobe interactive form

Hi All,
Anyone have step by step how to use SUBMIT button in adobe interactive form?
The scenario is:
I am using ABAP Program (SE38) to display the form, then user will enter value some required fields in the form. After user klik SUBMIT button in the form, the value will be stored in customized table in SAP system.
Kindly advise.
Thanks,
Nonik

Hi Chintan,
Basically, I have tried to search in the forum within this two days... But I could not find the step by step how to do it. Anyway, I will try to search again. Really appreciate if you don't mind give me the link of it.
Hi Otto,
I have created the WD application. Unfortunately, the requirement is online processing form which is attached in the SAP transaction. So, when user open document number of one transaction, the form will be displayed and user can fill the information in this form. Then after that user will click SAVE button to submit data to SAP.
Any advise?
Thanks,
Nonik

My submit button on my PDF form is greyed out (will not work) after posting link to PDF on my WordPress website. It works in Acrobat Reader just fine.

This is where you can see the form as clicked through to from the WordPress website page:
http://pinetreeplayers.com/ptp_new/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/submit-a-play.pdf
The PDF file was created in Acrobat 11, with a submit button. The submit button is actioned to send the form via email. It works perfectly by itself if the form is opened in Acrobat Reader, but once I upload the PDF to my WordPress site the submit button is greyed out, and will not complete the action to send on-click.
How can I fix this please - can anyone offer advice?

Yes. They need to download Reader and then disable Google Chrome's internal PDF viewer and enable Adobe Reader.
FireFox should also be configured to use Adobe Reader and not the internal PDF viewer.
The internal viewers are created to process PDF documents by not including the features and code to process PDF forms.

Multiple submit buttons in a jsp form?

I've been doing some research and found out that multiple buttons in a JSP form are possible by two ways:
- We can obtain the value of the submit button to know which one was clicked in the parameters of the request using the name of the buttons (which should be the same for all the submit buttons).
- We can change the submit destination using Javascript (Horrible solution since I want my web site to be safe to be used even if Javascript isn't active in clients browsers. I will use it of course since we can do amazing things with it but I want my website to be able to work without it also)
WHAT annoys me is the fact that the value of a submit button is also his text, so if I change the text of the submit button, I will always have to check the servlet to do the corresponding change.
Is there a third choice to be able to use multiple buttons?
Olivier Voutat

It seem rather convoluted at first but it's really good. I've not worked with JSF so I've no idea how that compares but from what I know, Craig McClanahan, who came up with Struts, worked on JSF also, so I guess it could only improve on Struts.
EDIT: Here's a search result on Google'ing his name: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=29068
But like I said, you don't have to use Struts ( which only uses standard JSP/ Servlets stuff anyway ), you simply use one of the ideas from it.
For example; you have a properties file, say "/WEB-INF/properties/myProps.properties" with these entries:
#USERS MODULE
users.button.save=Save User
users.button.search=Search User By Name
users.button.delete=Delete UserThis would be a key: users.button.save to the value Save User
Now, in your JSP, you use JSTL <fmt> tags:
<fmt:setBundle basename="properties.myProps"/>
//set the resource bundle you want to use
//and create buttons with the proper values
<input name="myButton" type="submit"><fmt:message key="users.button.save"/></input>
<input name="myButton" type="submit"><fmt:message key="users.button.search"/></input>This would create buttons with text "Save User" and "Search User By Name" respectively
Now, finally, in your servlet:
//create a map of the properties,
//possibly on app startup using a ServletContextListener
//and put it in the servlet context for access everywhere
HashMap myProps = (HashMap)getServletContext.getAttribute("myPropertiesMap");
String buttonClicked = request.getParameter("myButton");
if ( buttonClicked.equals((String)myProps.get("users.button.save")) )
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else if ( buttonClicked.equals((String)myProps.get("users.button.search")) )
//perform search action
//etcYou'll obviously want to optimize this. Perhaps make a method that handles the comparison so you can have neater if conditions. But you get the idea, right?
Edited by: nogoodatcoding on Oct 4, 2007 8:12 PM

Can I have multiple submit buttons on the same form?

Hi!
I'm creating a web page that allows the user to build a mail filter, and I would like to have to submit buttons, one to add more fields to the filter and another one to save the filter... I could insert the two buttons on the, but I don't know how to distinguish them while doing the process of the form on a jsp page. Any ideas?

You can create additional submit buttons using Javascript buttons:
<input type='button' value='Add Fields'
onClick='this.form.action="/servlet/AddFields";this.form.submit()' />
<input type='button' value='Save Filter'
onClick='this.form.action="/servlet/SaveFilter";this.form.submit()' />
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I have created a form with a submit button and have inserted the form as a link on my website, Ithe form upload perfectly but the submit button when pressed creates the error "operation not permitted". I do not need this data to be tracked in a spreadsheet, but I want to make it easy for the person to complete and send back without having to do a save as and attach manually to an email. When I test the form from my desk top it works perfectly, outlook opens up with the recipients email address and the completed form is attached as a complete PDF, why is it not working when I insert it as a link. Any help would be much appreciated. I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro 10. Thank you

Hi Chintan,
Basically, I have tried to search in the forum within this two days... But I could not find the step by step how to do it. Anyway, I will try to search again. Really appreciate if you don't mind give me the link of it.
Hi Otto,
I have created the WD application. Unfortunately, the requirement is online processing form which is attached in the SAP transaction. So, when user open document number of one transaction, the form will be displayed and user can fill the information in this form. Then after that user will click SAVE button to submit data to SAP.
Any advise?
Thanks,
Nonik

Hiding submit button from an Infopath form in a Sharepoint Library document

I have a Sharepoint document library that is setup to collect submissions from a form that faces the public. Because it faces the public it needs to have the standard/familiar submit button. The problem is that when the form is submitted to the
document library and the document is reviewed, it still contains the button - which will be confusing/complained about by staff.
I attempted to use a hidden boolean field that would switch to "True" when the submit button is clicked and then use conditional formatting to hide the button before submitting through the data connection. But apparently, there is no way
to move the conditional formatting rules after the action rules that make the boolean swith.
I then tried to switch to a new view that was identical to my Main view before submitting but the button is still appearing on the submitted documents in the form library.
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this? I have to think I'm missing something obvious.

Please try this -
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5767ff6c-764d-479c-904e-22e40a697c6c/how-to-hide-custom-submit-button-after-form-has-been-submitted-infopath?forum=sharepointcustomizationlegacy
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Problems with "Submit" button on simple PDF form.

Hi there!
I have searched, but perhaps not searching forums correctly to find my answer as this seems like it should be easy to fix (she said hopefully).
I have created a simple, offline PDF form for an event registration.
I have fields all done, set it up to email back a simple FDF from the client with a Combo Box "Submit" button.
When the client fills in the fields and hits "Submit" button, she gets:
"The file may be read-only, or another user may have it open. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder."
I created this in Adobe Acrobat 9.
Client is filling in using Windows XP.
I have extended release, no security, etc.
Is there something simple I am missing?
Have been able to get this to work before.
But now, not so much!
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

That's not normal. Do you know what version of Acrobat/Reader the other person is using? Can you post the form somewhere? If not, I'd be happy to take a look at it if you are free to email it to me at: acroscript at gmail dot com

Submit button for online PDF form doesn't work for some users

Two online forms I've created in LiveCycle Designer 8.2 work fine for me. But when some of my site's users click on the Submit button in either form, it simply flashes and then does nothing. It's a standard Submit button with a Mailto link. The documents are PDF Version 1.7, and I'm using Acrobat Pro 9.4.5 and Reader 9.4. Any suggestions on troubleshooting would be great.

Has this form been enabled with Form Rights for Reader. If the entire PDF is submitted, then the PDF must be Reader enabled to operate on Reader.
Another issue is that an email submit is entirely dependant on the user's system. There must be a local email client installed and registered with the system. Internet email will not work. This is the most likely issue. Althougth there are other things that could be wrong. You might want to consider using the Acrobat.com to distribute your forms. This method gets around the email issue for most users.
Other issues that could cause this problem are the users' version of Acrobat/Reader as well as any kind of funky system/security setup.

Working with 2 submit buttons in a html form

I have 2 submit buttons in a form. I will upload a file and save in a filepath in server when I click on one "upload" button. I want to use this file path in the code when I click on another button called"Process". When I click the process nothing is happening with dump in below code.Form submits to itself. Is there any better way to do this. Thanks in advance.
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<cfelseif isdefined("form.submitaction") AND form.submitaction eq "process">
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</cfif>

Hi tburra,
You can try the below code. This dumps the value of the path as well.
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Submit Button for PDF Fillable Form

Hello -
I am using Acrobat 9 Pro.
I am developing a fillable employment application for our HR department. Initially, I thought we could add the option to "submit" the form via email. However, now I am rethinking this due to a few issues. The first issue being security of sending it through email. The other issue is that when you click on the Submit button it brings up various options depending on if you are on a Mac or PC and depending on what email client you are using (desktop or webmail).
Is there any way to send a form via email without it bringing up the option to choose desktop email or webmail and going through all of the prompts? We want to make it user-friendly but also follow best practices.
Is it a better practice to have the applicant fill out the form, print it and then fax it to HR? I am looking for suggestions and solutions that have worked well for others.
Many thanks!!

Since you will likely have no control over your user's email client, there's little you can do to ensure the process goes smoothly. Not only is email generally unsecure, it is also unreliable. Some users might not even have a functioning local email cleint, and instead use a web based email system, in which case they have to manually attach it to an email that they initiate.
What is more reliable and easily secured is submitting to a web server, which can do the job of storing the form data (or complete forms) or emailing them. This is a bit more complex since the server has to be programmed to process the incoming submission and return a response, but it really is the better approach.
Faxing or mailing a printed copy is always an option and it can at least cut down on errors due to bad handwriting or inconsistencies (e.g., checking both the Yes and No check box for a question).

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