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Livecycle email submit button won't work!

thdoc
Registered: Feb 10 2009
Posts: 7
Answered

I am working with adobe livecycle and acro 8. I'm producing web forms with return email and print form buttons. The print form button works fine, and the page views smoothly on the web, but no matter what I try, I cannot get this email button to do anything! Not even an error message. I saw a thread where someone suggested using a javascript for this, can anyone help? Thdoc

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
How did you create the email button? Did you include an email address? How are you testing it?

Did you try setting up the form for distribution with the "Forms > Distribute Form..." menu item in Acrobat?Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

thdoc
Registered: Feb 10 2009
Posts: 7
Thanks for the response.
I'm trying to send this data to a web server. I can get the form to 'ping' the IP address using the http submit function, but it won't save the file data to any file on this server. Do I need a special file or something? I'm testing the form by loading it onto my website after choosing the 'save and send later' function in acro-pro8. I also have the file reader-enabled before submitting.
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
To send data from a PDF to a web server you have to have a script on the web server that will recieve and proces the data. Set the Submit URL to the URL of the server script. If do not do server side programming, then there are several services that can handle this for you, www.formrouter.com, www.techedsolutions.com, and www.Acrobat.com.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

thdoc
Registered: Feb 10 2009
Posts: 7
Thanks for the input. I'll give it a shot.

thdoc