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Needed: password protected but can still flatten

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May 2, 2018
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Hi all,

I created a form for our technicians at work that has non-editable form fields providing action items and editable form fields for information gathered from a customer site.

The form also has a hidden flatten button for our administrators to use when compiling multiple forms from a site (2-100 or more).

Problem: I need to password protect the document to prevent technicians from editing while still allowing the administrators to flatten without entering a password.

Is this possible?

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Correct answer try67

No, as flattening is a form of editing. You can set the fields as

read-only, though, instead of applying a security policy.

Bernd Alheit

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The administrators can combine the files as portfolio.

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mchlmichaellAuthor

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Thank you for the response. What do you mean by "as portfolio"?

Reason I ask is that we've had issues combining the files in the past...because the form fields are the same on each file being combined, form numbers 2-X are duplicates of the first form. This was the real reason behind my question. On previous forms I've gotten around this by hiding a flatten button behind our logo. After flattening, we can combine without issue.

(I should mention...we are running Acrobat Standard X)

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Acrobat Standard can't combine as portfolio.

You can take one file and add the forms as attachments.

try67

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Community Expert

No, as flattening is a form of editing. You can set the fields as

read-only, though, instead of applying a security policy.

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mchlmichaellAuthor

Participant

There are read-only and form fields to populate by the user. I appreciate the response, though; unfortunately, that won't work in my scenario.

I think I'll just have to move forward without protection.

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