I have been browsing the web for hours and I keep seeing this question asked (especially on this forum) without anyone actually answering the question...
I have a PDF form. I want the user to fill this form out, click a submit button and the data be sent directly to me via email WITHOUT launching an email client. This has to be possible. Please I'm on a VERY tight deadline.
A Submit button runs a script, and what you want to do is silently run that script to use another app without user intervention. Adobe considers this is a security issue, and rightly so. What is that script? It could be something benign like your Submit button, or it could be something malicious that could wreak havoc. Who is to know that your Submit button is benign or not? That is why the email app must launch, so the user knows and OKs the action.
Having said that, there is a way to do this if you use a Privileged script, BUT this means all users that fill out your form and Submit the data via email to you will need to install a script on their system. If your users are a known, discreet group this could work for you. If your users are a population of unnown people (general public), you would have to instruct them to install a script on their system. This would probably be much more worrisome to some than launching their e-mail app.
Hope this helps,
Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
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Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
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