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ASP.NET and Interactive PDF Forms

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Hi All,

I have a project which involves retrieval of interactive PDF forms through an ASP.NET page.  In this form, a submit button is available which redirects to another ASP.NET.  I would like to be able to dynamically assigned the cURL into the form.  Both form and pages are located in the webserver.  How should I implement this without manually assigning the URL path.  Is there some sort of Server.MapPath in PDF?

Thanks.

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Can you think about redirecting the PDF from one asp.net page to other?

I mean, the URL in the PDF always points to a location (say http://mydomain.com/controller.aspx)

Once the form is submitted to the above URL, can you redirect the form to another dynamic location which you prefer to submit?

Nith

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Hi Nith,

Thanks for replying.  I am actually trying to make the URL inside the PDF dynamic so that I don't have to administer all PDFs once our webserver's URL changes.  I was thinking of passing in the value from an ASP.NET to the PDF but I can't think of a way to achieve this except pulling from the database.  Like if I want to pass the logon credentials of the current user to the PDF how can I do that?

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Currently you are using any API to manipulate your PDF?

Regards,

Nith

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I have an interface that launches the PDF file which is using ASP.NET C# and another ASP.NET C# that stores the PDF file with the user entries.  My only issue is being able to auto-populate the PDF file once it is launched with the user's logon credential and be able to dynamically insert the URL of the other ASP.NET website through maybe a session variable coming from the first ASP.NET page. 

I am also trying to add a dataconnection to my interactive PDF form.  It works when launched from within the development server but not when I launch it from my local machine.  How can I make it so that the PDF points to the server's ODBC DSN and not the client user's ODBC DSN?

Thanks for all your help.