Forgive what might be a bit of a luddite question in the grand scheme of these forums, this is more of a scenario I'm facing and needing to know if Adobe has the functionality at all, ahead of looking at the specific technicalities.
Some of my customers need to be sent a form that's quite heavily regulated by federal laws; while I'm compliant on nearly all fronts, the one outlier is that the form needs to include a date-of-issue on it. The date needs to reflect that date that we've sent that form to the customer, as that's then used to determine things like their due date for returning it, as well as showing our compliance with the legal time frames of sending it to the customer.
The form is issued to these customers as an attachment to an email. The system we use to email our customers draws attachments from a database of files, but most of these are static documents that don't need a change (and I've checked with my legal team - it's the form itself that needs to have the date, we can't just use the send-date of the email, which would make my life a lot easier)
So my question is basically this:
- Is there a function within acrobat that allows the configuration of a pdf to have a date that automatically configures itself to [today's date] on a particular event, like being attached to an email via an automated process?
In my perfect little utopian world, I'm thinking that a pdf could have a script configured in it that recognises it's being attached to an email, goes "record today's date in this field" and then all my woes are sorted, but I feel like I'm chasing a pipe-dream there.
Appreciate any insights you might have, even if that's a very derisive 'no, that's not possible ya dummy'
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