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Posting forms to local intranet drive.

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2009-05-11 13:40:55
abell86
Registered: May 6 2009
Posts: 8

Hi,

I've been working on a pdf timesheet form that can be used through our company's local intranet. My task is to automate the submission of time sheets. One of the options which seems most favorable is to have the timesheets filled out by the employees, and upon pressing the submit button, have the forms submitted (in either pdf, xml or whatever format I decide on) to a local network drive. I'm not entirely sure how our network is set up as I was hired as a student specifically for this project. After this, the next task is to compile the submittals daily, and import them into another asset management database...but I will cross that bridge when I get to it.

I've been reading a lot trying to find someone who has done something similar but I haven't found anything that helps me a lot. The form I'm creating with livecycle designer will be located on a webserver or internal server of some sort, and accessible from their employee info site. Is there a way to have this information submitted to an internal drive rather than emailing it? Will I need some sort of server-side script to handle this?

Thanks

Andrew

PS. This might be kind of a basic question, but I'm testing all of this on my laptop and I can't get it to submit to a folder on my c: drive. I've put the "Submit to URL:" field as http://localhost/FOLDER and nothing is ever submitted, so I'm not sure what to do. Is there something simple I'm missing?

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2009-05-12 08:17:09
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abell86
Registered: May 6 2009
Posts: 8
Ok I've read some more and I've come to the conclusion based on what I've seen from other posts from various locations that my adobe form will not submit directly to a network drive, and will require being submitted to a web server, and a script on the server side will need to be written to handle the submitted forms, which will write the file (I'm thinking xml would be best, but I'm not sure yet) to the specified network path. Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding out how to set up this server side stuff?? I know it is not the scope of this forum, but I'm hoping some of you have some good resources I could use.


Thanks again.


Andrew
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