Email filled forms not just data

I am assuming you are using a button to submit the form.

Go to your button (using the button tool) and right click on it.

Select "properties". Then select "actions" and highlight "submit a form" which should be the action in that box.

Then, choose the last choice in that box "submit complete PDF" .

Exit out of your tools, save the form; and that should do it....

If you want your users to be able to save the form, don't forget to "reader enable" it.

Hope this helps....I think it is better than "Distribute Form" for your needs.

Carrimak,
Thanks for the reply. I am confused about which program to use Acrobat or Livecycle Designer. I see that Acrobat has different functionality from the other. I tried to follow your directions but the site still won't send the form. What else can I do?

yes, I am also not finding it clear as to which app to find the "properties". In LiveCycle, I have Type/Email Submit Button. the only editing I can do there, is to add a desired eml addy and subject line. In Acro, are you referring to File/Form Properties? My Form Button is grayed out in Acro pro. Hmm...

You have to create a "button" not an "submit button" and then you will have to provide the appropriate JavaScript.

super - and what would that script be exactly?

Here is one script I've used successfully:

this.mailDoc ({
cTo:
"email [at] domain [dot] org",
cSubject: "add subject line here",});



Make the substitions where appropriate....for email and domain, etc.....and use a regular button, not a submit button...try that....

carrimak

thank you - I will try the script

Hope you don't mind me joining this thread. Having tried various email formulae, "mailto:" etc with submit buttons, with no success, then lit upon your script offering: it works, and brings the pdf, but not the info I've filled in. What am I doing wrong/what haven't I done?
Platform: Windows XP, Acrobat Professional 6.0, Acrobat Reader 8.
Level: newbie
VMT
Peter

I'm thinking that you haven't enabled "reader rights" and you need Acrobat Professional 8.+ to do that.

So consider downloading a trial version of that program from the Adobe site; and try it out. That is the only program (I think) that allows you to save filled out forms and to send them back filled out.

If you do download and install the program you'll have 30 days to try it out; then could purchase it as an upgade from 6.0. Do a search in the help files for "enabling reader rights" or look on this forum.

Hope this helps.....

Thanks so much. Acrobat Pro 6 very misleading, as Help and other (googled, and this forum) sources all imply you can email a (filled) form, as do the various email 'scripts' I've tried.
I think you must have it right, as my Acrobat Profesional 6 will email directly with the fills. Is there a reason for preferring a button with your javascript rather than a submit button with an email script?
Again thanks.

Hmm.....don't know if there's a preference for one or the other....I used the script for a client where I wanted to put specific words in the Subject Line....otherwise you could use the submit form that's built in.....but that puts (if I am remembering correctly) the name of the form in the subject area.

As usual; there are too many ways to do anything; and you've got to figure out what's right for your situation.

Hope this throws some light on the matter! Try it several ways; see what works best....

You may want to consider PDF/Mergician.

It enables you to send the data to your server where it will fill this data into the PDF form flatten it (if you want) and send it out to one or more destinations (back to the clients webbrowser, email, disk, ...). You can even combine the submitted data with other data already on your server.

With this solution you can use any form, do not need Acrobat reader permissions and your clients only need to upload the data, not entire PDF's.

Kind regards,
Ewout Prangsma
www.pdfmergician.com

Not being a coder, if I wanted to add others to the TO or have a CC, how would that script look?

comp_dad; I am not a coder either; that was a script I found online. So I don't know how to do it either. My guess is that it would be a pretty simple modification of this script.

You might ask at the Javascript forum. Or search Google for Javascript Tutorials.