Email submit button

Are you emailing the entire PDF or just the data? If you're emailing the entire PDF, you'll need to Reader-enable your form so that recipients of the form with only the Reader can return the entire PDF to you. By default, the Reader can only email data not the entire PDF unless you Reader-enable the form.

How does one "reader enable" the form?

Also, is this why I do not have access to the "Control Type" area within the object palette when I have the Submit Email button selected?

Thanks for helping out a new user!

Reader-enabling is part of Acrobat 8 Pro. Use the following menu:
Advanced --> Enable Usage Rights in Adobe ReaderThe standard Email Submit Button in the LiveCycle library doesn't have a "Control Type" area. Try creating this function from a standard library Button, then you'll see the control type. Or, use the Distribute Form command and it will be automatically added.

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed!

Do you reader enable the form in LiveCycle or Acrobat? I can only see it in Acrobat, plus that and I can't get my email button to actually launch email.
Thanks

You reader-enable a form in Acrobat Pro. under the Advanced menu. What is the syntax of your email button? What type of email are you using?

It is a button -- "regular" with a CLICK javascript event:

event.target.submitForm({cURL:"mailto:ahecht [at] hmgc [dot] mcw [dot] com?subject=Submitted Physiology Purchase
Requisition&body=Please find attached the completed PDF form.",cSubmitAs:"PDF",cCharset:"utf-8"});Thanks for any help you can give me. Yes, I have enabled it in Acrobat Pro.

I just read on another Adobe page:

-- PDF: Submits a package containing an embedded PDF file. Choose this format if the form contains a signature field, or if a copy of the form together with its data needs to be saved by Adobe LiveCycle Forms or submitted to some other kind of target server. Do not choose this option if the form initiates server-side processing, if Adobe LiveCycle Forms will be used to render HTML or dynamic forms at run time, or if the form is a PDF form that will be filled in Adobe Reader without the use of Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions.

This is a form that will be filled out online in Reader. Does this mean that every client has to have the reader extensions?

Try the following instead of adding javascript. Create a regular "Button" in the Object palette select "Submit" as the Control type, then under the "Submit" tab add the following in the Submit to URL box:
mailto:ahecht [at] hmgc [dot] mcw [dot] com?subject=Submitted Physiology Purchase
Requisition&body=Please find attached the completed PDF formSelect the Submission Type in the Submit tab as PDF. Then Reader-enable the PDF in Acrobat Pro. It's necessary to Reader-enable your PDF so that everyone can return the entire PDF to you not just the XML data. Your recipients will only need Reader to fill out the form. Just make sure you're conforming to the EULA guidelines for Reader-enabling a form. For details on this visit:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/articles/2006/09/enabling_reader/

Thanks - I got it working!

Thanks for the great tip Ikassuba.
Is there any way you can take the script above (mailto:ahecht [at] hmgc [dot] mcw [dot] com?subject=Submitted Physiology Purchase
Requisition&body=Please find attached the completed PDF form) and have the subject line read a certain field on the form? I have a field for the customer name that I would like to have in the subject.

Thom Parker has a great [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/dynamically-setting-submit-e-mail-address]tutorial[/url] on collecting the e-mail data from the form field and applying it to email functions that explains how to do this.