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Auto Response Possible?

farouks
Registered: Jan 22 2008
Posts: 5

Is it possible to have someone fill out a form, and once they submit the form they are given an answer key automatically sent to them?
Please let me know if this is possible, and if so how do you set that up.

Thanks!

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
If the data is sent to a server script, then that script would handle responding to the person who submitted the data.

The most common way that Acrobat submits data to a server is using HTTP Request. So the server has to send back something anyway in the HTTP Response (FDF, XDP, or another Acrobat data format). You could place a message to the user in this information, have it written into fields right on the form. You could also have the server script send off an email.

To get going on this you'll need to know about some type of server side scripting. Also take a look at the FDF Toolkit at this URL:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/fdftoolkit.php

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script