Confirmation message for form submission

[ritab3427479]

Hi, I've been asked to add a "thank you" message to one of my PDF forms.  It has a Submit button that is sending the form to the department via e-mail, but they would like to see if I can add a message that thanks people for submitting the form.  I have very elementary skills in creating PDF forms, so this is way beyond my realm of expertise.  Can someone help me with a simple way to do this?  I have Adobe Pro XI.

Thank you so much!

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Adding an alert window that says "thank you" is easy, but the problem is it is not connected to the email server so it will also appear if the email did not go through, which is not a good set-up. It's better to create an auto-reply function that returns an email to the sender when their message is received. That is something that you'll have to create independently of the PDF file.

[ritab3427479]

Thank you for your quick response which makes sense about the e-mail server.  I didn't think about the fact that the two would not necessarily "talk" to each other.  So that brings another question.  In the Submit button properties of the form, is there a way to have it place certain words in the Subject field of the e-mail message?  I only see a place to add the e-mail address I want the form to go to.  This is way over my head, and I'm just getting back around to this project.

Bewildered.

[try67]

Sure. For example:

mailto:john@gmail.com?subject=Hi!

[ritab3427479]

Thank you so much!  I had no idea how to do that.  Now we'll figure out the e-mail reply part and be good to go (I hope).

Awesome Forum - you've made my Wednesday!

[gkaiseril]

You would have to send the form data to a scripted web page that would perform the email. This page would have control enough to know that the email was sent and provide a response back the calling form.

See submitForm method and the oJavaScript  parameter.

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