I have a large (450 slide) powerpoint-based maintenance procedure and a report form that must be filled out as the various routines are completed. Both were pdf'd and packaged. I have hyperlink buttons (77) designed to allow the engineer to toggle between the procedure and the report. I am using Acrobat 9 Pro and have not been successful with this implementation. I envisioned the engineer to step through some number of slides then when data must be entered a button would call up the report. After entering the data a button or sequence of buttons would return back to the last page of the routines. At the completion of the procedures a 'Submit by Email' button would send me the completed form. A week of perusing the videos and tutorials still has me stymied.
If the form is an attachement of the procedure then you can link from the procedure document into the form and back. Just add a button or link to the procedure document. Set the action to "Go to a Page View". Select a location on the form as a destination. Then do the same on the form.
The problem with going back is hitting the same view in the procedure doc where they left off. The easiest method is to have the back button execute the "Previous View" menu item. But if the user moves around in the form it'll mess up the sequence. There is a solution using JavaScript to simply bring the procedure doc back into view, using the "doc.bringToFront()" fucntion. You'll find an example in the Acrobat JavaScript Reference.
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