How to set up a submit button for a multiple-page form in Acrobat 9

Is this an Acrobat form or a LiveCycle form?

Regardless, form submission is always for the entire form. If only the form fields on the first page are being submitted then there is a problem with your form.

What specific submit action is the button using? Tell us more about your form.

Thom Parker
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Thanks for your reply.

In reviewing my steps, I realized it was "user error!" Oops.

However, I have a new question. When the data comes back to me, is there a way to filter it so I just see the pages that have completed fields? It's a 69-page document, so it doesn't make sense to have to page through it to find the pages where somebody ordered something.

I was planning to have the data sent back in FDF format, so it could be opened and reviewed in the original PDF.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Yes, you can write a script that searches for filled out fields and navigates to the associated page. For best performance the script should look for just a single field that's associated with items you want to look at and not just any old field that's filled out. Ideally you'd have similarly named fields for each location. That would make searching easier

I'd suggest implementing this in one of two ways.

1. Make a copy of the original form and modify it to be your administrator form by adding navigation buttons for finding the filled out areas.

2. Make an Acrobat toolbar button that displays a popup menu of all the locations that contian filled out data.

To do the actual search use the "doc.getNthFieldName()" function to walk every field in the form and look for non-empty field values.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window[/b][/url]