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Submit Button not opening email Client

DAMasters
Registered: Sep 12 2007
Posts: 4

I have set up a fillable form in Designer 7, but cannot get the Submit by Email action to open the email client (Outlook). I only get to the screen where the user must "Select Email Client". These forms are for disabled folks and they do not need any more copmplications to confuse them. BTW, after reading all the other posts, this form is NOT embedded in a Web page. It is emailed to them as an attachment, to be opened with reader.

Also, I thought I enabled "Changes and Saving" the updated form using reader, but when I open it on another computer using Adobe Reader 8, it still says "you cannot save any changes to this form". What gives?

Thanks in advance!

Formfingers
Registered: Feb 7 2007
Posts: 90
Is your current "Submit by Email" button the default button in Designer? Delete that and replace with a 'regular' button; you'll need to input the following script into that using your script editor and the 'Click' event. Paste in the following javascript:

event.target.submitForm({cURL:"mailto:supplierforum [at] adobe [dot] com?subject=Submitted Form&body=Please find attached the completed form.",cSubmitAs:"PDF",cCharset:"utf-8"});Obviously, where it shows the email address and subject message, you'll want to replace with your own. Save the form. Exit Designer. Open Acrobat Professional and enable usage rights. Try testing the button and see if it generates this form into your Outlook or default email program.

Good luck!
mkuntz
Registered: Sep 21 2006
Posts: 6
I am using Designer 8. What I want to do is be able to have a drop down with list of names and then link it to the submit button to email the paticular person. Any chance of that happening?
DAMasters
Registered: Sep 12 2007
Posts: 4
Got the JavaScript input and now when I click Submit nothing happens. I also cannot seem to find where "Enable Usage Rights" is located.

Thanks again.
kbedward
Registered: Nov 9 2007
Posts: 29
DAMasters wrote:
Got the JavaScript input and now when I click Submit nothing happens. I also cannot seem to find where "Enable Usage Rights" is located.Thanks again.
"Enable Usage Rights" is under the Advanced menu in Acrobat Pro 8
kbedward
Registered: Nov 9 2007
Posts: 29
I tried this code as well and get the same result - nothing.
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
A few manditory requirements:

1. Form must be accesed by a Window compuetr.
2. Outllook should be the email client. Not Groupwise or Lotus Notes.
3. MAPI must enabled.
4. Microsoft Messanger must be enabled.

George Kaiser