Creating Pop-up Information box before continuing

Question

Hello, I am looking to create a pop-up information box that must be read and acknowledged before the documents are displayed, or before use.

To add clarity, I have a rather large fillable document that starts out with an input page. The input page only fills in the most important and repetitive information throughout the various forms. For those areas to be changed, you have to go back to the input page, unless specific information is not covered by the input page.

I want this information to be relayed and acknowledged before moving forward. If the forms can be hidden before the message is acknowledged that would be a bonus for this project.

I read this discussion/article but not understanding how (if it applies) to my project. Please help and thank you.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/creating-a-quot-pop-up-comment-quot-upon-opening-that-can-be-closed-to-view-document/m-p/9150097#M56716

Thom Parker · Answer

This type of behavior requires more than the standard form scripting, which means that the form would only be usable on the desktop versions of Acrobat Pro or Reader.

There are a couple of techniques you could use for this

1) Hiding form content with OCG Layers (this can also be done with opaque markup annotations)

2) Hiding and showing form fields

3) Custom Popup Dialogs

This examples uses a combination of (OCG) layers and hiding/showing form fields.

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Lite-Document-Security-Description.cfm

Article on programming OCG Layers

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/create_use_layers/

This example shows different ways to use a custom popup dialog box.

http://www.windjack.com/resources/Examples/DialogUses.pdf

And here is a drag and drop tool for creating custom dialogs.

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/ACRODIALOGS-OVERVIEW.cfm