Submitting Portions of a Form Within One PDF file

That depends on exactly what you mean by "submit". You can submit the form data from just certain fields to a web server by setting up the submit action appropriately. Is that what you want to do?

Yes that is what I want to do. Is there somewhere that I can get instructions for my office to set up our own web server to store the information people will be submitting via the form that I made?

Thanks for your help!

You might download the Acrobat X SDK from the Adobe website, and then look in the Acrobat JavaScript documentation. The method to look after is submitForm(), and there you see the options to submit, as well as the options to specify the fields whose values you want to submit.

Hope this can help.

Max Wyss.

Thanks for the advice! I downloaded Acrobat X SDK from the website and found the JavaScript documentation, but after looking through numerous pages of the document, I could not seem to find the submitForm() method. When I open SDK I am prompted to pick Version 1. From here there are five options (Documentation, InterAppCommunicaionSupport, JavaScriptSupport, OtherSupport, and PluginSupport. I open the Documentation folder, which opens up four more options (Acrobat10 HTML Help, Javascript, pdf reference, and U3DElements). Then I choose the javascript folder where five PDFs are available. The only one that has anything about forms in it is the PDF that is entitled js_developer. However, I can't find anything relating to submitting forms. The only thing close to that is how to create a Submit button, which I already know how to do. Am I looking at the wrong document?

You do not need to use JavaScript for this. When you set up a submit form action with a button, you can select which fields you want included (or excluded). But if you want to use JavaScript, here's a link to the submitForm documentation: doc.submitForm

Also, instruction for setting up a web server for this is a bit beyond the scope of this forum. A PDF form can be set up to submit in the same format as an HTML form, and there's a lot of information available for working with HTML form submissions.