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Fillable form emmbeded in email

loganw
Registered: Nov 12 2007
Posts: 2

I have Adobe Pro 8. I want to create a fillable form, which I can emmbed in a stock email that I send to my clients. My goal is for them to be able to return the filled in form by simply replying to my email. Can I do this, and, if so, how?
Thanks
Logan

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
pddesigner
Registered: Jul 9 2006
Posts: 858
Create a button on the form and add this JavaScript to the button - Mouse Up action. Edit the email address and URL shown in this tip.

if (typeof(app.viewerType)!="undefined")
if(app.viewerType == "Reader")
{
var msg = "You must use Adobe Reader or Acrobat to send the application back to us. You can download Acrobat or Reader from Adobe's Web site at: http:www.adobe.com.";
app.alert(msg);
}
else
{
this.mailDoc(true, "management [at] comany [dot] com", "supervisor [at] company [dot] com", "ceo [at] company [dot] com",
"Employment Application Form");
}

Another option (LiveCycle).

Sets the URL of a submit button at runtime.

This example demonstrates how to email a form to an address specified by the person filling the form.

Instructions:

Create a Text field (name = TextField1)

Add this JavaScript to the Validate event.


Script - validate event of TextField1

var address = new RegExp();
address.compile("^[a-z0-9_\\-\\.]+\\@[a-z0-9_\\-\\.]+\\.[a-z]{2,3}$","i");
var result = address.test(this.rawValue);
if (result == true){
true;
} else {
false;
}

Add a Button:

Script - click event of the email button

this.resolveNode("#event").submit.target = "mailto:" + TextField1.rawValue + "?
subject=email data
email address

User actions:

1. Types an email address in the text field.
2. Clicks the email button. An email message is displayed with the
specified address.

Note:
Specify the button as a submit button before typing the preSubmit event. The script will point to the first element specified for the
button.

My favorite quote - "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Another possibiity is to embed the actual PDF form in the body of your email message. To do this, you can reference the following posting:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/ask_an_expert/questions/view/3427/

Lori

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.