Hello
I'm evaluating the feasibility of a software solution based on Adobe Lifecycle and I will appreciate some explaination.
I'm sorry for lack of knowledge about that specific technology.
Through the use of a web platform I need to distribute (by download and/or emails) some flowable pdf modules. Final users insert data and images inside modules.
Then I need to have those data (structured inside a database) and the correspondents final printable PDFs.
Does Adobe Livecycle provide the direct connection to my input database?
I read the Adobe LC docs and I know that usually the final user re-send the PDF module via email and then it's uploaded inside the server to register data and images....but the reasons cause I want a direct connection to my database in realtime are:
1) I have not the warranty / certezza that final users will send back me the module.
2) I need to monitor the progress of works of all my users. The pdf is about 20-30 pages, so I need to know at which status of work each user is... and which fields they have edited and which not.
3) My user are not skilled in computer science so I don't exclude that they return me a wrong copy of PDF (this is a minor requirement).
In case it could be connect PDFs directly to database, ... could be a vulnerable solution because of the exposure of database on the web?
Otherwise... If is not possibile ... do exist alternative solutions that satisfy my needs?
N.B. I cannot ask to final user to make some tecnichal or specific system configuration of their desktop. The final user are not in my intranet and I don't know which operating system they use... Yes, I can put some "minimal system requirement" to use my service, but I cannot ask them not-usual or un-conventional system configurations. The users are not skilled in computer science, so the solution has to do as easy & smart as possible.
thank you very much I will appreciate all your contribute and suggestions.
Best regards
visert
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The PDF form could also be submitted inside Adobe Reader/Reader plugin inside browser, over a REST HTTP endpoint, pointing to a LiveCycle process, which could process this form.
Thanks
Wasil
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Hi Wasil
Thank for your suggestion. But what do youmean exactly for "could"?
Do you mean "already proved or do you mean a possibility?
Are there demo that show this king of deployment?
Thank you in advance.
Regards
visert
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I used "could" in the context of designer. This type of process/workflow can be designed and have been designed.I've seen multiple such PDF forms which are submitted inside Reader/Browser e.g. https://wsr.pearsonvue.com/vouchers/asiapac_form.pdf
Such forms are submitted over REST endpoint, data either sent as XML or PDF and processed on the server.
Thanks,
Wasil
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Hi Wasil
I saw your link and it's interesting.
Do you think that is possibile also manage/insert:
- flowable text field
- image fields
- pre-fill data (my user fill form in many days of work...so they need to re-open a form and find data inserted past days).
- high quality DPI final PDF (to print on paper).
- and finally. .. generally more "beauty" form? :-)
thank you a lot.
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Yes, I believe it is.
Thanks
Wasil
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