Create Email Subject from Text Field

[kmurphy001]

Is it possible to generate the email subject from a user-filled text field?

For example:

When the user enters 'John Doe' for their name in a form, the subject line would be 'John Doe'.

<submit format="pdf" textEncoding="UTF-8" target="mailto:mbox@company.com?subject=<John Doe>"/>

[ashish_gupta_]

I believe this FAQ will help you achieve it: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/977632

[radzmar]

Another method is using my  macro (usable in Designer ES2 or higher).

You can create a complete mail (recipients, subject and message) and add variables from fields to all of them.

http://thelivecycle.blogspot.de/2012/05/mailto-maker-marco-v1.html

[Sony_A1]

Use can use this script for getting subject from textfield

var myDoc = event.target;

var address = "";

var subject = TextField.rawValue,

myDoc.mailDoc({

bEmpty: true,

cTo: address,

cSubject: subject,

csubmîtAs: "PDF"

});

[kmurphy001]

You'll have to forgive my ignorance, but I don't understand much about scripting.  Right now, I'm using the 'Email Submit Button' and don't know where to put the suggestions above.  Could someone provide an example please?

[kmurphy001 · Accepted solution]

Made some minor changes to your script to get what I needed:

var myDoc = event.target;

var address = "myemail@contoso.com, secondemail@contoso.com";

var subject = [TargetFieldName1.rawValue, TargetFieldName2.rawValue, " Additional Static Text"];

subject.toString();

myDoc.mailDoc({

bEmpty: true,

cTo: address,

cSubject: subject,

csubmîtAs: "PDF"

});

Also, I found out I needed a normal button that calls this script when clicked.  Otherwise, thank you for getting me pointed in the right direction.

[G5_Matty]

I can't seem to get this to fire when in the "click" event of my button.  Am I missing any essential bits?

[Clarkopolous]

I'm in the same boat as G5_Matty.
I've used the same coding, just adding in my data to suit, but I can't seem to get the button to work?

It's not telling me I have any coding errors either.

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi,

This code needs to be in a standard button, but it also has a few problems.

• The email addresses should be separated with a semi-colon, not a comma
• The line subject.toString(); doesn't do anything
• The csubmîtAs has a special "i" character.
• If you don't want a comma used between the fields in the subject you should use the .join(" ") to use spaces instead

Try this code

var myDoc = event.target;
var address = "myemail@contoso.com; secondemail@contoso.com";
var subject = [TargetFieldName1.rawValue, TargetFieldName2.rawValue, " Additional Static Text"];
myDoc.mailDoc({
 bEmpty : true,
 cTo : address,
 cSubject : subject.join(" "),
 csubmitAs : "PDF"
});

Regards

Bruce