Hello Howard, thanks for asking. I ended up getting this to work, and support asked me the same question. Here is what I wrote back to them:
I should have said the form comes back, but there is no data saved in the form.
Actually, I got it working this weekend - the signature and everything came back in. I was testing with the same email account and not looking for something unique in the email subject. I believe what was happening is that I would test the workflow and I think my previous workflow would catch the email being sent out with the "blank" form and then send that back in to my email Receiver. Maybe that doesn't make sense, but it's working, so yay!
So, yes, you can use the document variable. I have a feeling the documentation meant a more "generic" way of talking about the form variables and meant the "form" and the "document" type.
In regards to my whole scenario, these two email QPACs are working quite well (or so they seem to be!), so I think this is what I am going to do:
- Have a form (wether it be PDF or not) on our website that collects the first three "non-LiveCycle" user's name and email.
- Use the web services to hook back into the work flow and set this information to variables.
- Email out the form to the first user, who can reply back to email the filled out and signed form. An email Receiver QPAC will catch the email (I will probably need to catch something unique in the subject line, probably User's full name or something like that) and then send it right back out via email attachment to the next person, etc..
- Once the third user emails the form back in, I will then procede with the workflow as usual (using Form Manager) since I will be dealing with LC account holders at that point.
Since I can delete the emails within the Email Receiver QPAC, all these emails shouldn't bog anything up.
Not too pretty, but I think it should work out just fine! I am starting to put the workflow together now, so I will let you know if this works. Now I need to figure out how to use these web services...
-Jennifer