Adobe acrobat pdf database

[Riccardo317482060r9q]

<p>Is it possible to create a fillable file in which to insert a drop-down menu in which to extrapolate data from a database (in Excel)? After choosing a code from a drop-down menu there are fields that must auto-fill based on the information present in an excel file which contains the data.</p>

[Thom Parker]

You want to automatically update an Excel file on the local file system from a PDF. This can kind of be done. You can write an Excel VBA script that opens a PDF and moves data between a spread sheet and the PDF. But that's running the process from Excel, not Acrobat. The problem with Acrobat is that it is heavily sandboxed. The JavaScript model doesn't have the kind of access to the local system that you'd need to create an Acrobat driven solution. 

However, this can be done with a remote DB, since Acrobat can make remote data submissions (which get data as well as sending data).  You could even run a local server that does the Excel side. However this all takes a bit of programming chops, since you'll need to write either a server script or specialty server for handling the remote data.