Hi! New user here. I have a decent database and web programming experience. Recently my company has decided to start moving towards electronic documents. So we purchased the Adobe Acrobat Pro Suite to check out the possibilities. I have re-created and vastly improved one of our documents.
Issues:
1. This document is used and updated by multiple parties. I used to have a revision history. I promptly removed this when trying to actually do it in LiveCycle. Doesn't seem possible. However there are some features that we can't live without. Here is an example of the process being used:
-Customer fills out form, page 1.
-Customer sends the form, just page 1 filled out to my company.
-My company reviews page 1, then fills out page 2.
-My company sends the form, just page 1 and page 2 filled out to the customer.
-The customer reviews page 2. Sets up a teleconference with my company.
-We mutually review page 2 and make my company makes any adjustments.
-My company sends the updated form, just page 1 and page 2 filled out to the customer.
-The customer electronically signs the document. Locking out the document.
2. Electronic signatures in Adobe Reader don't work. They do in the Preview PDF mode of LiveCycle. They also work in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.
Questions:
1. What can I do to facilitate this process of incrementally saving the document?
2. Any possibility of a revision history along with it?
3. What am I doing wrong with the signatures?
I would be happy to connect this form to data as well. I did the tutorials that come with the product explaining dynamic XML documents. If there is a process we can use that involves this that would be an acceptable answer as well. Would like to explore my initial questions before considering the alternatives.
One solution would be to make Page 1 & 2 separate forms. To start with just send the Page 1 form to the customer. Then when the company fills out the Page 2 form, embed them both into PDF as file attachements. You could use a portfolio for this. PDFs can also be setup, in Acrobat 9, for a live review session. Where both parties can view the PDF, and any changes on the fly. Don't know how this works with LiveCycle forms, I've only done it with regular PDFs.With a livecycle PDF You can keep a revision history of sorts. The file presave event can be used to update a form field with information about the form. For example the date the changes were made. It's tricky to catch everything that's changed on the form, but it's not impossible to trap and store some change data. On a regular PDF you can use document certification to maintain a running list of updates to the PDF, but not in LiveCycle.
Thom Parker
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