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Help: Creating template form to distribute, 2 questions

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2011-03-26 23:46:17
taniamc
Registered: Mar 26 2011
Posts: 24

Hi there,
I am not new to Adobe products but I have new used their form-maker. I am usually living in excel, but it is not as great for what I am trying to accomplish.
 
I am trying to make a form that would serve as a template for coordinators. Which means, it will go through 2 sets of people. 1 person will be editing and filling in the explanation test, ie "Name of event" "date" etc. The next set of people will be registering for the event, filling out a different set of fields "Contact Name" "address" "etc". I have created the form and all the fields, but I am trying to figure out how to :
 
1.) Allow the coordinators to lock the fields that THEY have filled in, so the second set of users are not editing text they should not be.
 
I figured out my second question thanks to another post on the forum. So #1 is the only thing holding me up from publishing.
 
I would truly appreciate any help you can offer. This is something that I am creating for free to try and help some new people out... it'll be accessible to anyone on the internet and its just a volunteering of my time.
 
Thanks
 
Tania
 

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3, Windows
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2011-03-28 09:18:05
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taniamc
Registered: Mar 26 2011
Posts: 24
NM folks. I figured out both of these issues.
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2011-03-30 12:50:26
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SES909
Registered: Aug 20 2010
Posts: 1
please let me know how you got this to work because i would like to do the same.

thanks
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2011-03-30 14:24:22
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taniamc
Registered: Mar 26 2011
Posts: 24
SES909, I can tell you how I did it, though I have no idea if its the "proper way" to do it.

I created a button at the bottom of the form that is called "Finalize Form" and is for the first round of edits... the event information round. The event coordinator enters in all their info in their set of fields, and then they hit this button. The button saves a "editable" copy of the form, sets all the event info fields to readonly and then it hides the finalize button since it is no longer needed. I went back and changed the fill color for the event info fields to yellow so that the event coordinators could see their fields easily, and then the finalize button changes those field colors to transparent. Here is an example of the javascript:

getField("Show Name").fillColor = color.transparent;
getField("Show Name").readonly = true;

I hope that helps!
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