Using a button in a PDF to save a PDF fill-in form from fields in the PDF?

Question

I have been tasked with making fill in forms for a department in our office. The files have to be saved in a specific folder and with a specific name. I would like to generate the folder name and the file name from some of the fields in the form itself. All forms will have 3 fields [Case #], [Ref. #], and [Name].

So the folder format will need to be EX: “c:>\forms\[Case#]-[Ref]\ [Case#]-[Ref#] [Name] – form name and ver”

If I would enter [Case#] = 002415 [Ref#] = 002 [Name] = John Doe

The folder and file name would be “c:\forms\002415-002\002415-002 John Doe – Referral V3.pdf”

I would like to hard code the name of the form in so they user doesn’t have to do anything jest fill out the form and click the button.

I have a few articles on how to do this but they don’t give step by step instructions jest code and im not sure where to place the code.

Is something like this possible?

try67 · Answer

It is, but under some limitations:1. The folder path has to exist in advance. A script can't create new folders.2. In order to silently save a file under a specific name you need to run the code from a privileged context, which usually mean a script file installed on the local machine of each user who will use this form. Is that possible in your case?

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