Attachement able to import another attachment?

[Former Community Member]

Hi all, I was just wondering if it  was possible for a file to have an attachment that imports another  attachment? To give an example, say there is file A with attachments B  (a pdf file) and C (an xml file). Is it possible to have attachment B  import attachment A?

Thanks

[radzmar]

Yes, it is possible.

[Former Community Member]

ummm....maybe i should have asked how?

[radzmar]

Well,

open a pdf in Acrobat, than attach one other pdf to it (Document > Attach a file).

After that, open the attached file and attach a file to it.

You can repeat this as often as you like.

[Former Community Member]

Ah sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I meant is it possible to import it programatically to prepopulate the form. So I have form A and attachments B (a form) and C (an xml file) are already attachments in form A. When the user clicks to open attachment B from the attachment list, I would like B to import C to prepopulate the form.

Hope thats clearer.

[radzmar]

Hmmm,

I won't say this is impossible, but I actually don't know how to do this.

You will need a function to load the XML data from the attached file directly into the data DOM.

From there you theoretically can import it with loadXML().

Maybe another suggestion for you.

Here the data is prepopulate across several XFA forms within a PDF package.

http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2010/07/shared_data_in_packages_part_1.html

http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2010/07/shared_data_in_packages_part_2.html