Import Data using Reader

yes, that is possible just using reader with the importdata() function.

Unfortunately my copy of Reader does NOT import the data. It will export it, but not import it. Any suggestions? Of course Acrobat 7 (and presumably 8)does import it, but that is of no help to me where, as here, the person filling in the form only has Reader.
Thanks anyway.
David

I thought you meant programattically import data. Do you mean import from the menu?

This has to be done using JavaScript in LiveCycle Designer and the "Extended Reader Rights" need to be applied. One can import text data, XFDF data, or a data object.

You are quite right, I do mean programmatically import data.

I have made a button on my form and have used the javascript code:
xfa.host.importData();
on the click event, but although it works fine in Acrobat 7 and 9, it does not work in Reader 9.

I press the button and nothing, nothing at all happens, ecept that the button momentarily chages colour and appears to depress. Unfortunately the option to import the data is not given.

I have just discovered that the export data button does not work in Reader either! I can get around that by emailing it to the person who has filled it in, but I cannot circumvent the import problem.

I have tried it both with and without extended features in Adobe Reader, with the same results.

I have saved the form complete with data after extending the features, but I cannot either import or export.

Regards
David

Are there any console error messages?

Have the "Extended Reader Rights" been enabled/applied to the form?

Hi,

If by "extended reader rights" you mean under the Advanced tab of Acrobat 9 clicking on "Extend Features in Adobe Reader" then the answer is yes.

I can and have used a "Save Form" button which I have programmed with the code:
app.execMenuItem("SaveAs");

For that I had to extend reader rights (as above described) to get it to work and it has always worked perfectly.

I wanted to replace that button with an Export and Import pair of buttons, so used the code:
xfa.host.importData();
on the import and, on the other export button,
xfa.host.exportData("",0);

And it is that code that I cannot get to work even though I have again extended reader rights. (It works perfectly alright in Acrobat 9 and 7)

I get no error messages, just a slight change in colour of the button when I click on it, and nothing, but nothing happening.

Thank you very much

David

I figured that the exportData was not working programatically, because it does not work in Reader. That's why I thought maybe you were trying to interactively do this.

Both of course will work in acrobat, but for some reason, only the import works in reader.

I wish the import did work in Reader, as I can get round the failure to export, but cannot get round the failure to import, and it is the importing that I want to work.

Still I will have to persuade the person who will mostly be filling in the form to invest in the full program.

It is so annoying that import does not work in Reader.

Thanks for your help, anyway,

David

The import DOES definately work in Reader. Have you tried all of the things gkaiseril mentions.

It is funny that you emphasise that it DOES work in Reader, when my experience is to the contrary.

It could be that I am doing something wrong, but I have put up here all the code I use and how I extend Reader rights, and no one has suggested I should be doing something else.

I am left, therefore, with the inevtiable conclusion that it does not work in Reader.

Very Annoying.

Again, thank you very much for your assistance.

David