Fillable field clears when sending for e-signature

[Chris24590236ozov]

I'm working on a service agreement that is contains several fillable text boxes that I fill out for each agreement. Once I have it completed, I am sending for e-signature through Acrobat. Once I click the "Request E-signatures" and it brings it up to specify where to sign, all fillable text boxes are empty. I have saved the file with the text and reopened and the text is still in the boxes. I tried to send again after reopening and same thing, once it gets to where I specify where to sign, the text is cleared again.

[Amal.]

Hi Chris

Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that.

Is this an issue with a particular PDF form or with all the forms? Please try with a different one and check. If it's a file-specific issue please share the file with us so that we can check it at our end.

Would you mind sharing the version of the Acrobat Reader DC you are using? To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the recent version 22.1.20117 (Win), 20112 (Mac) installed. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.

Also, what happens when you try to request signatures via document cloud https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/home/ ?

Regards

Amal

[Chris24590236ozov]

20112 is the version and I am running Monterrey 12.3.1.

This is the only form I have. This is my first experience using Acrobat creating a fillable form

[Amal.]

Hi Chris,

We are sorry to hear that. I have tried to test it at my end using the PDF file you have shared and its working fine for me.

Would you mind sharing the steps you are doing to fill the PDF form? A small video recording of the same would be very helpful.

Also please try to request signatures via document cloud https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/home/ and see if that works for you.

Regards

Amal

[Andrea274810134xe4]

This is a huge issue for our company as well as many of us use fillable forms and then send for e-signature. Is there any update on if this is being fixed or how we can prevent this from happening?

[EnergyWerxAlberta]

I am having the same issue! Everytime we send our forms for signature, it erases all of the fillable info boxes and says “Unsupported fields have been removed from this document”. How can I lock in the information before sending for signing? This has never been an issue before the new format of Adobe was adopted.

[Bernd Alheit]

Is this a Acrobat form or a Adobe Sign form?

[EnergyWerxAlberta]

Adobe Sign.

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[try67]

Try this forum: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-acrobat-sign/ct-p/ct-adobe-sign?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filt...

You should not reply by email, by the way, as it includes your full contact details in the signature.

[Mia24427397w26m]

The same thing is happening to me. Did you get it fixed? 

[Andrea274810134xe4]

This is a huge issue for our company as well as many of us use fillable forms and then send for e-signature. Is there any update on if this is being fixed or how we can prevent this from happening?

[Mia24427397w26m]

@Andrea274810134xe4 Did this start before or after the update for your company?

[MeenakshiNegi]

Hi All,

Sorry about the trouble caused. 

This issue has been reported to the team, and they are looking into this. However, as the issue is not reproducible on our end, we need the sample documents with prefilled information for further investigation. 

Please share the prefilled files you are using or create a sample PDF form with similar form fields and filled information.

Share those sample PDF forms with us. It will help us check what form fields are not updating and find the root cause for this behavior change. 

In the meantime, you may try filling in the form field after you update it on Acrobat Sign. Use the Prefill option (https://helpx.adobe.com/sign/using/prefill-forms-field-before-sending.html) to input the information on form fields before sending it. 

Let us know if you need any help.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[Mia24427397w26m]

I discovered that when I moved from old to new files I used to Adobe Cloud became corrupted. Once I deleted the corrupted file and uploaded the original from my files it resolved my issues. 

[selenax62307819]

same issue here. it is headach after adobe upgrade to this version, everythign ruined. spend even more time without this. Adobe need refund to us untill the issue fixed

[Amal.]

Hi there

Would you mind sharing the version of the Acorbat DC and the OS you are using? A small video recording of the workflow and the sample PDF file would be very helpful to investigate the issue.

Also, share the the Adobe CC logs https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-log-collector.html , Procmon logs (Win Only) https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Labs/acromonitor.html  and share them via any cloud storage. Just upload the log file to the cloud and generate the link and share that link with us.

~Amal

[coryc51111954]

For those still having the issue, and those like me who just discovered it, the best solution I have found is to disable the new version. It is very simple and here is a link (scroll about 1/3 down). https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html

[Jack29395360wryq]

This was the only thing that worked for me as well.  I'm on Mac OS Ventura 13.4.1 

[Landon33045780tptt]

Same here, it would work fine on my desktop windows, but when I got on my Mac it would have the problem referenced in this thread. When I disabled new acrobat that did the trick

[Renee333707413tbu]

THANK YOU! Disenabling worked perfectly. I find it difficult to believe Adobe cannot recreate this within their own environment. Frustrating for sure.

[RPM279863863w38]

What a godsend, thank you!!

[Amish24051834p73w]

I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH. THIS SAVED ALL THE FRUSTRATION I HAD WITH A POORLY MANAGED/TESTED  RELEASE OF NEW ADOBE. I AM BACK TO USING THE OLDER VERSION BASED ON THE TRICK YOU SHARED. GOD BLESS.

ADOBE TEAM, PLEASE DO A GOOD JOB WITH TESTING ON MACOS BEFORE RELEASING SW

[John223966301h5c]

I can't believe that this is still hanging on since the first post in May of 2022. I only recently upgraded, and lost the ability to send filled out forms. Thank you for the hint to disable the "New Acrobat Experience" My experience with this new experience is poor. Request Signatures still works when you disable it.

I found a related post that seems to indicate that the Request E-Signatures for Adobe Acrobat Pro is now reserved for Acrobat Sign for  Enterprise or Business. Grrr... again, I think I like my OLD Acrobat Experience. I opted for a subscription to Acrobat Pro to get away from needing to using Acrobat to create and fill my forms then Docusign to get my signatures.   

[Megan33560274v4gz]

THANK YOU!!! I wasted an hour of my life trying to figure this out and this simple thing saved me from some real panic. 

[The Therapy Collective]

This helped! I also had to go in and change the "particiaptant role" to "Anyone" in the text field box.