Error opening URL to submit this form

[Sunwin]

Hello! I'm trying to create an internal referral form and am hitting a wall. Ideally when a user clicks the submit form button, the PDF is sent to a directory on a network share that everyone has access to BUT when I click on the button, I get "Error opening URL to submit this form". Here are my settings for the Submit Form selections, what am I doing wrong?

[Thom Parker]

The Acrobat submit is exactly the same as a Web form submit. It sends an HTTP Post to a web server.  It does not write the file to a folder.

You could write a server script to receive the submit save the file on the shared drive. Or you could use a different technique.

Here's an article on saving a PDF from a script.

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript

[Sunwin]

I get what you're saying but according to this article Setting action buttons in PDF forms, Adobe Acrobat  I should be able to save to a local share ...

[rigatoni71]

I am getting the same Error.  Trying to submit to a server folder.  Follwed the articles instructions.  Any resolve?

[Thom Parker]

So that article does not say that you can write to a local folder. Local folder access from an un-trusted script in a PDF is totally restricted for all operations. But the submit form operation is also restricted. There are only two options for a submit, HTTP Get and HTTP Post.  Neither of these will automatically cause server to write a file to a location. For that you need an HTTP PUT, which is not an option.

There are two options for writing the file to a server (not local) file folder. 

1) Write a server script to receive a Post from the PDF and write the file

2) Use the "doc.saveAs" to write the a WebDav folder.