I have created several online forms in Adobe that work just fine - they collect the information, then the user clicks the button and it opens their mail client and sends me an .fdf file - wonderful. Works great. Unfortunately, it no longer meets my needs. I now need to collect additional information from the user(s) (same info from each user) and I REALLY don't want to have to go in and modify 200+ online adobe forms. I know I can write a .cgi script to parse the info from the online file but that just isn't going to work - files are too different, no naming convention used for text boxes, etc. (I didn't create them). What I would LIKE to do is this:
1) user fills out form, clicks submit (or whatever) (and the (form info? file?) is passed on (or stored somewhere - whichever)
2) user is brought to a simple HTML page that collects the info I need, then clicks submit
3) .cgi script sends me the info in an email with the .fdf file attached.
This has GOT to be possible, but I can't find the answer to 1 simple question - where is or how do I get access to this .fdf file as a file, and not as fields of information? Something somewhere must create it, because I can send it as an email through Adobe, but my understanding is that if I just "submit" it to a .cgi, then aren't I just submitting the fields, or is there a way to tell Adobe to submit it as a whole (a file)? I can handle the .cgi side of it if someone here can tell me what do do with the Adobe side of it.
Thanks in advance.
1) user fills out form, clicks submit (or whatever) (and the (form info? file?) is passed on (or stored somewhere - whichever)
2) user is brought to a simple HTML page that collects the info I need, then clicks submit
3) .cgi script sends me the info in an email with the .fdf file attached.
This has GOT to be possible, but I can't find the answer to 1 simple question - where is or how do I get access to this .fdf file as a file, and not as fields of information? Something somewhere must create it, because I can send it as an email through Adobe, but my understanding is that if I just "submit" it to a .cgi, then aren't I just submitting the fields, or is there a way to tell Adobe to submit it as a whole (a file)? I can handle the .cgi side of it if someone here can tell me what do do with the Adobe side of it.
Thanks in advance.