How to fill a PDF form with Data, allow user update, then Print and/or email the form in Asp.Net?

[jnollet]

     Hi ... kind of new to Asp.net development ... I want to allow users to select information from the database then use that info to fill a PDF with the selected info.  Then allow the user to fill in missing data and/or change the filled in data once that's complete ... print and/or email the completed form and update the database with the form data.

I have been able to accomplish all the parts except ... filling the PDF form with data.

I have a button on the form for Printing and it works fine ... but the user must fill in the form completely.

I found what looks to be a great page ... http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/asp_net/ASP-NET.pdf

but I can't seem to get the early required definitions working...

i.e. "Create a .NET client assembly"

  I get either a file not found or 404 errors when I try the command suggested

I think I am missing some required component for the FormsService

    I don't have this "soap/services/FormsService" anywhere on my system

Any ideas? Thanks, John

[Former Community Member]

John,

Do you have LiveCycle ES or LiveCycle ES2 installed and deployed?

Steve

[jnollet]

Actually I have both ... on two different machines

We have a licensed copy of LiveCycle ES

And I downloaded ES2 as a trial ...

John

[Former Community Member]

John,

"soap/services/FormsService" is the URL to the LiveCycle Forms ES component running on your app server.

In my case, I have the JBoss turnkey running locally so I can hit LiveCycle at 'http://localhost:8080'.

If I want to hit the SOAP endpoint for the forms service I would use 'http://localhost:8080/soap/services/FormsService?wsdl'.

Validate the DNS and port for your install.

Steve

[jnollet]

Thanks for your help ... I've tried another route ...

Setting up these services etc. was way too involved for what I am attempting

I simply wanted to get data from the database and along with input from a user ...

Fill in a form and print it

It is much easier to write it out the long way in HTML rather than Adobe's method.

John