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2011-11-02 20:41:47
ajlangham
Registered: Oct 31 2011
Posts: 4
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Hey everyone,
 
First post for help here. I've got a PDF form in Acrobat, which i need a certain text box to be validated, i need the text box to simply check the client has writted in the word "Creo" before they can send the form.
 
HELP!
 
I'm sure it's really easy but being a designer, i have NO scripting skills.
 
Andy.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.1, Windows
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2011-11-03 02:51:54
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
What's the name of the text box to validate? How do you want to submit the form?

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2011-11-03 03:30:12
#2
ajlangham
Registered: Oct 31 2011
Posts: 4
The text box will be called validation. I will be sending the PDF form data to a php script. Hope this helps.
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2011-11-03 03:34:12
#3
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
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Use this code as the MouseUp action of your submit button:

  1. if (this.getField("validation").value=="Creo") {
  2. 	this.submitForm({cURL: "http://www.server.com" }); // replace the place-holder URL with your own
  3. } else {
  4. 	app.alert("Error."); // you can display an error message to the user here
  5. }

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2011-11-03 04:06:36
#4
ajlangham
Registered: Oct 31 2011
Posts: 4
Thank you for your help.
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2011-11-15 19:36:38
#5
ajlangham
Registered: Oct 31 2011
Posts: 4
Try67,

Can you tell me will adding cSubmitAs: "HTML" allow me to send this as a POST to a php script? apparently the current script you wrote above me needs to submit as a POST says the back end script writer. See my attempt below.

Andy.


if (this.getField("Validation").value=="Creo33") {
this.submitForm({cURL: "http://www.server.com/capture.php", cSubmitAs: "HTML"}); // replace the place-holder URL with your own
} else {
app.alert("Error! Please check your Anti-Spam answer, this field is located under the logo."); // you can display an error message to the user here
}


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2011-11-16 01:32:39
#6
try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Yes, if your PHP script is expecting an HTML page, sure.

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