Example: usage of form submission action for sending data from form fields to online script

How to use form submission action to send data from PDF form to the online script

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_submit_form_action.zip (55,8 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

demonstration of form submitting action in PDF document generated using PDFDoc Scout

 ' create PDFDoc object
 
Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")
 
' initialize library
 
PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo""demo"
 
 
' set output filename for PDF document
 
PDFDoc.OutputFileName "pdfdocscout_example_submit_form_action.pdf"
 
' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
 
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true

 
' starts PDF document generation
 
PDFDoc.BeginDocument

  
'Add new Submit Form Action
 
Set SubmitFormAction PDFDoc.AddSubmitFormAction("http://testwebsite/testpage.asp"True, stGet)

 
' Add button
 
Set btnTest PDFDoc.Page.AddButton("btnDemo"100150200110)
 btnTest.Caption 
"Run Submit Form Action"
 
' Set button action
 
btnTest.OnMouseDown SubmitFormAction

 
' Add edit field control
Set EditField = PDFDoc.Page.AddEdit ("testTextBox", 100, 220, 150, 230)
EditField.Text =
"testTextBox"

 ' close pdf document generation
 
PDFDoc.EndDocument

 
' disconnect from library
 
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_submit_form_action.zip (55,8 KB)

 

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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