How to change the target attribute by using JavaScript?

[Former Community Member]

Hello everybody,

i have (at least i thought i had) a simple problem:

imagine a form, a textbox to enter an email address and a command to send an email to the specified recipient (the email address in the textbox).

this is the last version of my coding:



//name of the button is "cmdSendMail"

cmdSendMail.getElement("event").getElement("submit").setAttribute("target", txtEmail.rawValue);



another (older version):
cmdSendMail.#event.#submit.target = txtEmail.rawValue;

Would be very nice if anyone has an idea/solution to my problem...

Thanks a lot

[Former Community Member]

Instead of a submit button, use a regular button.

With its click-event, use something like:

event.target.submitForm({

  cURL: "mailto:"+ txtEmail.rawValue,

  bEmpty: true,  // post all fields (true), or do not post all fields (false)

  cSubmitAs: "XDP", // format: 'XDP', 'XML', 'PDF'

     // Note: PDF requires the form to be reader-extended in order to work with Adobe Reader

  cCharset: "utf-8" // 'utf-8', 'utf-16'

});

[Former Community Member]

Steve,



That's nice to see all of the parameters shown nicely. Thanks.



Is it possible to rename the attached PDF. Would it even be possible to do a SAVEAS() to a different pdf filename, then specify that attached PDF?

[Former Community Member]

I think, its impossible to submit the form using a custom filename.

At least if it would be possible, it's an undocumented feature. You may want to have a look at:
JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference, Version 8 (PDF, 7.5 MByte) (pages 345+).



You may want to use a custom subject for the user to be able to quickly identify the e-mail:




cURL: "mailto:"+ txtEmail.rawValue +"?subject=myPrettyCustomSubject"



[Former Community Member]

Steve,



Since I do all of my development in Livecycle (and not acrobat forms), am I still able to use the javascript SDK? I'm not sure where the SDK fits in, is there any other documentation explaining this.

[Former Community Member]

Some (a lot?) of the Acrobat JS properties and methods also work with LiveCycle forms. I doubt, there's decent documentation to detail which properties and methods work with LiveCycle and which don't. At least, if there is such a document, I haven't had the pleasure browsing it. :-)