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jessc85925120
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November 22, 2017
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Why does some of the fill-in information in our pdf fields get changed during the email process?

  • November 22, 2017
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We use pdf forms with fields to book events. Then we send the pdf out to clients as a confirmation. Lately we've been getting a lot of them contacting us saying that some of the info on the form has been altered. The info always looks correct on our end, so I don't know why it's changing on the user end.

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Inspiring
November 22, 2017

Can you describe in more detail how the info has been altered?

jessc85925120
Participant
November 22, 2017

In our event booking form, two of the fields are for 'Start Time' and 'End Time'. We have drop down boxes where my staff select the correct time for each field. When completed, we send out the pdf confirmation. I don't know if it happens with every form we send out, but we've been doing it this way for years and customers started contacting us a couple weeks ago saying the start and end times are not what they had booked. They seem to just be random times. When we look at our information, and the form that was sent to them, everything is correct.

Inspiring
November 22, 2017

I'd have to see the form to say anything definitive. You might consider setting the fields to read-only before sending it out, or better yet, flattening the form, which converts any form fields to regular page contents, and thus preventing this sort of problem.