ADOBE FORMS WITH ADOBE ACROBAT

PDF Forms

Adobe Acrobat makes it easy for you to create, fill in, and submit electronic PDF forms.You can design and create an entirely new form, or you can quickly convert your existing paper and electronic forms to PDF and then add PDF form fields. Creating a PDF form from an existing form lets you maintain your organization's corporate identity and branding, while saving you the effort of re-creating the form. You can create forms with text boxes, buttons, check boxes, combo boxes, list boxes, radio buttons, and signature fields. And if all the proper software and hardware components are in place, form data can be submitted over the Web and collected in a database, just as if you were using HTML forms.
Adobe Acrobat's ability to import and export form data also makes it possible for a user to populate different forms with the same set of data. A user can enter commonly requested information, such as name, address, phone number, and so on, just once, and then use the data again and again to fill out different forms.

Assignment Form Example

In this exercise we will take a PDF Image file that is a form outline for assigning referees and turn it into the type of PDF form that data may be entered, imported and exported.

General preferences

Fields

1. Contact Information
2. Game Assignment Information
3. Team and Age Group
4. Qualifier Check Boxes
   
   For the Initial design, use Snap to Grid and turn on Grids
   
   
   
   Using the Forms Button, add a Form Field
   
   Note the form Field is Visible, and Border Color is white, Font size is selected as 12, Multiline is not checked
   
   
   
   
   
   Form Fields are sequential, hence Tab takes you from one to the next as they are filled in.
   Repeat by adding Fields until all Game assignment Form Fields have been assigned for "Sunday" and "Monday"
   
   Your form, so far looks like this one, (Download partial form )
   After assigning the Text Boxes, next check boxes are added
   
   
   
   If an "either or selection exists" for one or more fields where only one value may be checked at a time, then the radio button should be used.
   
   This is the case for Youth or Adult
   

   Related radio buttons must have exactly the same form field name but different export values.This ensures that the radio buttons toggle and that the correct values will be collected in the database. In this example, Youth has the export value:   Adult = No

   "Youth" Radio Button

   
   
   
   
   When this field is Exported, To extract the Data, Checked boxes return YES, as Shown
   

   Numerical Fields

   The numerical fields will be autochecked for proper values,
   since youth referee ratings are under 10 to Under19 the data check field set up looks like this
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   The completed exercise Form now looks like this when viewed in the form tool
   
   
   Click here to download the PDF Form
   
   

   Use of Multiline

   
   Multipline and Auto for Font Size are used to allow Text to Wrap in the Text Box
   as in this filled out Example:
   
   
   Data Extraction: