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Adobe Acrobat Form Help

TM921
Registered: Apr 14 2009
Posts: 11

Hello. I've spent a couple hours browsing the forum with no success. My problem is, I have created a form with about 15 fields. I want 6 of the fields to be required to be filled out. This form will not be submitted electronically, simply printed.
 
1) Is there a way I can prevent the form from being printed without data being entered in the six fields and if so, how?
 
2) Is there a way to force the user to enter data before moving onto the next tabbed field?
 
3) Is there a way to open up a pop-up indicating that a field requires data?
 
Thank you for any assistance.
 
Tom

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
You can not stop a print action once started by "File => Print" or the tool bar print button. But can detect either of those events and take some action that might modify the PDF form in some manner.It is possible to validate a field, but to lock a user into a field until valid input is entered, is asking for getting a very angry user.

Yes there is the 'app.alert' method.

There are ways to check each keystroke, provide custom formats and validate a field through a very complex scheme. You can use the RegExp to construct restricted input by each character and use check digits, verify the parts of a telephone number and reject invalid area codes and exchange numbers. You could even look up data in a data base to verify user input.

George Kaiser