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Email submit button does not open an email client on some computers

mikebruyere
Registered: Mar 22 2010
Posts: 4

Hi, I have designed a document and added a submit by email button (not the built in submit by email) and edited the properties of the button to allow it to submit the pdf form itself. This works fine on my computer as well as a few others; however, my client states that on some of their computers that nothing happens when they click the button. They see the hourglass for a second and then it goes away. Are there any I.E. or Firefox security settings that need to be set or does anything need to be enabled on their Acrobat Reader or is there something else that I am missing? Unfortunately I cannot log onto their computers remotely to see if it is anything obvious.

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
The Mail-Button will not work, if there is no MAPI installed on the computers.
Acrobat/Reader uses the the MAPI to open a mail application.
If the users use Vista or Windows 7 with Microsoft (Live) Mail for example, there is generally no MAPI installed.

You can check this on a client if you enable the JS Debugger (ctrl + k --> JavaScript > Show Console on Errors and Messages) on one of the affected computers.
If it shows a "Raise Error" when you click the mail button, then it is the problem I described.

If not, check the help for setting up a mail application forAcrobat/Reader.
[url]http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS571A8F2F-B971-435c-9FD3-E6789CCAFFFC.w.php[/url]

radzmar
LoveCycle Blog
Documents you need:
LiveCycle Designer ES2 Docs

mikebruyere
Registered: Mar 22 2010
Posts: 4
Thanks for the response. I will check it out! Also, I assume that this could be a browser security issue if javascript is disabled?