Trouble getting form to submit

[AJWebmaster-fpz]

I'm wanting to have a form on a website that the user can open with reader and fill out and then submit the completed form. From what I have been able to read Acobat should be able to do this but I am having problems to make this work. I have made a simple form for a test and added a email submit button. When I submit the form a window pops up wanting me to save the form. Then I have to open my web-based email and attach the saved form and send it that way. If that is all it does it won't work for me but I assume that there is something I am doing wrong.

[Former Community Member]

You are not doing anything wrong ...the issue is that you are using a web based email system. There is no program to program communication

with such an email system so that is the only way to automate it. If you had a client based email system then there are Programmatic interfaces that woudl allow Acrobat/Reader to control the mail program and do what you want.

Hope that helps

Paul

[AJWebmaster-fpz]

Thanks. What about the HTML Submit button? Is there any way to get the form submited that is easy for the user?

[Former Community Member]

The HTML submit will post the information to a web server (like a web page does). You will need a program on the web server to catch the submission. You might want to try mailto:emailaddress but I think that uses your default mail client to send the email.

Paul