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I'm developing a form in LiveCycle which will be filled out by clients and emailed back to our headquarters. I would like to have a button (intended for "office use only") that would extract the data from the form and place it into an external XML which would then be used to import into an Access database.

I'm able to create an XML document as an email attachment, but this isn't the option I'm able to use and I'm having great difficulty finding the method that would create just an XML file.

Is this even possible with LiveCycle?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

2008-04-01 14:21:34

thomp

Registered: Feb 15 2006

Posts: 4411

There are actually several different ways to do this. The easy way is to use the Acrobat forms menu option, "Forms > manage form data > export", and then select XML as the output.But you could also use the Data View tab in LiveCycle Designer to attache the form to an XML schema, or even a Specific XML file. Then use a JavaScript Automation script to export the data when you get the file back. There are several variations on this scheme, but they all require some scripting.

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