Any of you Acrobat Forms & Javacript nerds got a sec to lend me your knowledge?

[nerd137 0]

Anyone who helps me with this will be immediately added to my list of personal heros!

Ok, here goes:

I created a pdf form that will be filled out online and then emailed as xml data. But when the form is submitted, it always sends the xml file with the same file name. Any one got an idea of how to tweek this so the file name is created based on information in the form itself?

I'd attach the form to this post, but it's too big. If anyone feels inclined to lend an in-depth hand, I can email it out!

Thanks in advance!

[AlexCrowley 0]

filled out online? why use a pdf?

Just trying to understand exactly what you're doing and why a basic form page (using AJAX or CSS if you want it really pretty) wouldnt work?

Feel free to pm me the basics of how you want it to flow.

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[nerd137 0]

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filled out online? why use a pdf?

Just trying to understand exactly what you're doing and why a basic form page (using AJAX or CSS if you want it really pretty) wouldnt work?

Feel free to pm me the basics of how you want it to flow.

PART I
Yeah, you're right...that would be best. But a couple things stand in my way. This is for work, but it's a pet project to make MY life easier. The current process for gathering this information is ridiculously tedious. But redesigning the process isn't really part of my job, so I have very limited resources to work with. Trying to do this "properly" would take FOREVER because of corporate red tape and endless questioning from managers who are less than technically inclined.

There's more to it than that, but that's a good sum up.

Part II

Basically, the form is opened, filled out, the user clicks a button, the data is saved as an xml file and emailed back to me for processing. But on my end I need to dump all that into a spreadsheet. That necessitates saving the xml files locally, then using acrobat to change them to a csv file. But in order to save all those (200+ a week) xml files locally, they need unique names. Just thinking about renaming them one at a time as they come in makes me tired.