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We at Cardinal Solutions have seen the need for clients to convert an xfaForm to a Document Form many times. Unfortunately doing so is not exactly straightforward due to the reason that xfaForm and Document Form are very different in how they work. One way of converting from an xfaForm to a Document Form in the interest of Digital Signatures is as follows:
1) Have two templates of your form. The two templates should be identical aside from having one's submission method set to XDP and the other's submission method set to PDF
2) Point your xfaForm process variable to your XDP submission template
3) Point your Document Form process variable to your PDF submission template
4) Create a Document process variable
5) Use the xfaForm variable up until you need to convert to DocumentForm. Let's say that you have four user steps in your process: A, B, C and D and at D you want to present the Document Form variable to the user for collection of their Digital Signature. At step C, present the xfaForm variable but set the output data (in the Assign Task properties) to your Document variable you created in 4).
6) Within "Advanced" settings in your Document Form variable, ensure that "Call the render service only once" is checked.
7) Within "Advanced" settings in your Document Form variable, set the Input Data Doc parameter to be the Document variable you created in 4).
If you have any questions, or if I have misunderstood and you require other help, please let me know!
Josh Boyle
jboyle@cardinalsolutions.com
Cardinal Solutions Group
