I was trying this Web service tutorial and got it to work properly with Acrobat Pro 8 but not with Acrobat Reader.
Acrobat Pro 8 includes LC Designer and LC Reader Extension but it look like something is missing or I’m doing
something wrong when enabeling Reader rights. The response from the web service does not appear.

Fridrik, Ken,

Ken is correct: The form needs to be reader-extended in order to function properly in the free Adobe Reader. Unfortunately, this is not the same as the new “Enable Usage Rights in Reader” feature now available in Acrobat Pro 8.0.

“Enable Usage Rights in Reader” only enables “local save” and not full-fledged data import which is what you need for importing data from a data connection (XML Data, ODBC or WSDL).

This is all very interesting.

I was hoping to be able to do something similar, targeting users with free Acrobat Reader installed. Looks like I can’t??

Am I the only person who find’s it really odd, and rather frustrating that:
a) it’s up to me to dig this kind of info out by searching newgroups and blogs, rather than Adobe providing some decent publically-available documentation setting it all out in a clear, easy to understand way
b) why Adobe have decided to make this web service connectivity feature unavailable to so many potential users, who aren’t likely to want to pay up for a full version of Acrobat.

Also:
Can you confirm that, if I wanted to do something similar involving populating a dropdown control with the response from a web service:
i) it would be possible -if so, how, precisely?
ii) even if it were possible (and I’d love to know EXACTLY how it’s achieved if so), it’s actually of no use to me since my target users are only likely to be willing to use a free version of Acrobat Reader.

Fridrik,

You’ve always needed either LC Forms ES or LC Reader Extensions ES to import data into the free Adobe Reader. If you did the data import on the server side, then you’d need LC Forms ES. If you did it on the client side, then you would use LC Reader Extensions.

I haven’t heard about any pricing details yet.

Stefan

Thanks for the useful (if slightly depressing) info.

So, I need either LC Forms ES or LC Reader Extensions ES if I want to import data to a PDF using a web service.

But what about simple “fillable” forms, where you create a template PDF in LiveCycle Designer, deploy it on your web server, and then serve some XFA-compliant XML to the client that contains data for certain fields (e.g. Smith) plus a URL reference to the template PDF….when this is parsed by the Adobe software on the client, the template PDF is downloaded and the data is merged. Oh, and also the template contains a button that submits the form content back as an XDP package to a given URL….?

I’ve already created an example of the above type of form…it works, but I haven’t tried it with free Adobe Reader. My question is, will the free Adobe Reader let the user see the partially-populated PDF and allow them to fill in the remaining fields and click the button to submit their filled-in form back to the URL? Or will it only work if I send them the form via LC Forms ES or LC Reader Extensions ES? I guess to answer this, I could try this out myself, but I need to know the official answer just in case there’s something non-standard in my environment (i.e. my dev PC!) that makes it look as if it works when actually it shouldn’t.

Hi Stefan,
I just want to clarify my understanding of this. I have created a form in Designer that is uploaded to our server and then accessed by a call to a php program that switches to HTTPS and then downloads the pdf form. The user fills in the form and then submits. The data is sent to my Linux/apache/PHP/MySQL server as POST data. this works great! Now I’m ready to have the form data accessed by the recipient, so I want to use the same form, and extract the data and populate it. Do I understand that if I use the SOAP/WSDL methods I can do this without requiring any upgrades or extensions to Reader, and that I don’t have to have any additional software except the SOAP client and a php program to process the SOAP request?
There’s ton’s of information on the net and in Adobe, but sometimes simple answers are just not to be found.
To see/try my form you may go to http://www.devtest.ipssolutions.com/bwca.php?d=1
And, yes, the d=1 is used for configuration control, which means I will be able to add parameters that I will dynamically use to set up the SOAP call via scripts.

Thanks
Marty

Pete Smith,

With regards to your question about populating a drop down list with a web service data connection, you should be able to use the Dynamic Binding feature to bind the drop down list’s item data to a repeating section in the response of a web service call.

I’ve tried posting a sample of the packet I’m sending, but for some reason it disappears when I click ‘submit comment’. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.

The packet I’m sending looks like this:

<?xml version=\”1.0\” encoding=\”UTF-8\”?>
<?xfa generator=\”XFA2_4\” APIVersion=\”2.5.6290.0\”?>
<xdp:xdp xmlns:xdp=\”http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/\”>
<xfa:datasets xmlns:xfa=\”http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/\”>
<xfa:data>
<topmostSubform>
<txtForename>Pete</txtForename>
<txtSurname>Pete</txtSurname>
</topmostSubform>
</xfa:data>
</xfa:datasets>
<pdf href=\”” + strPDFUrl + “\” xmlns=\”http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/pdf/\” />
</xdp:xdp>

…and I should also point out that the above example packet is served up with a Content-type of “application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml”.

Pete Smith,

Have you made any headway with this over the past week?

It looks to me like you’re generating an XDP with a data packet and an externally-referenced PDF form and serving this to the client. In return, the client is detecting it as a file which can be opened with Acrobat or Reader and proceeds to do so with the data merged-in. As far as I can tell, this is still considered a “data import” and the fact that it works with Reader 7.0 but not with later versions is likely due to the fact that prior to Reader 7.0.5, there was bug which actually permitted Reader to import data without the PDF being Reader-Extended. It’s possible you’re running into this if you’ve reverted back to Reader 7.0.

As far as dynamically populating drop down lists or list boxes, you need to bind the list object to a repeating data node in your data packet. Let’s say we took the data.xml file from my data-nominated subforms tutorial. It looks like this:

<data>
    <movie>
        <title>movie title</title>
        ...
    </movie>
    ...
</data>

The <movie> data node repeats and contains properties about the movie. If you then used the Dynamic Properties feature to bind the <title> data to the items in a list object, you would end-up specifying that the items as a whole are bound to

$record.movie[*]

which means it’s bound to all instances of the <movie> data and then you would also specify the property of the <movie> node which is bound to the list object item’s text as “title”. The resulting XFA is as follows for the list object:

<field>
    ...
    <bindItems ref="$record.movie[*]" labelRef="title"/>
</field>

This is obviously very similar to your data example for “Mr, Miss, Mrs and Ms” in your previous comment. The fact that the XML string gets displayed in the drop down list rather than various items make me think that all you’ve got is a binding of the <root> data to the drop down list’s value rather than a dynamic binding of “$record.root[*]” for the items and “item” for the item text values.

Stefan,

We are attempting to connect to a webservice from a Reader Extended LiveCycle form – using Adobe Reader as the client. We want to streamline our account opening process by creating an interactive, dynamic LiveCycle form with a submit button that uploads the form’s XML content to a webservice. The response of the webservice is the new account code. The process is based off the solution brief – http://www.adobe.com/financial/pdfs/accountopening_sb.pdf

Our network (and potentially the networks of our clients) is behind a Microsoft ISA Server, which uses NTLM proxy authentication (challenge / response).

Using Ethereal, I can see that the form does correctly send the XML to the webservice, however, when the challenge (“HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required”) response comes back, Adobe Reader thinks that this is the actual response from the web server, tries to process it and fails with “Error attempting to read from file”.

I’ve attempted to use the HTTP submit feature but that too fails when “Display PDF in browser” is not enabled. The HTTP submit feature works if the PDF is displayed in the browser because the browser has already authenticated to the proxy server. However, calling a webservice from behind an ISA proxy never works, even if the PDF is displayed in the browser.

I have been trying to find information on Adobe Reader’s support of NTLM proxy authentication but I can only find articles on “Adobe Stock Photos” and “Adobe Download Manager” products not being able to handle them.

Are you aware of any work arounds to this problem or do you know of any plans to introduce support for this type of proxy authentication within Adobe Reader?

Thanks,
John.

John Nesbitt,

I’m afraid I don’t know of any workarounds to this situation, neither do I know of any plans for Reader to support authentication when establishing a connection to an external resource such as a web service.

I believe your best bet is to require that users login prior to using the form and, as a result, prior to Reader attempting to establish the connection with the web service.

Pete Smith,

I apologize that this is causing so much frustration. I wish working with data in XFA-PDF forms was more straight-forward. I’ve made an inquiry to colleagues of mine who will hopefully provide me with a more definite answer and will report back here as soon as I hear from them.

In the mean time, to answer your Reader Extensions and Form Server questions, I don’t know much about pricing but I would suspect that Form Server would cost less than Reader Extensions simply because Reader Extensions has a cost per PDF (as I understand it). If you’re really interested in purchasing either, I believe you can get in touch with an Adobe Sales Representative via Adobe’s website. As for deploying either on your server, I’ve been told that Windows Server 2003 can be used however both are Java implementations and therefore require an application server. Apparently, the majority of deployments on Windows Server 2003 have been to WebSphere (which must be purchased separately).

Stephan

Thanks for your response. I’ve been away from the office the past couple of weeks so have only just picked this up again.
I can confirm that with Reader 8.1.0. everything still seems to work, except dropdown populations!
So for example if I have a dropdown control on my form where someone has selected a value from the list and then submitted the form, if I send them back the XFA data at a later point in time the template is displayed with all their other text field entries populated ok but the dropdown appears as if no value has yet been selected.

In Reader 7.0 the same form behaves ok with dropdowns populated ok too.

Sounds like Form Server and WebSphere together could end up costing a fair bit. What a shame.

Pete and Stefan,

I have also used the same method as Pete to populate PDF documents on the fly – by sending the response object back to the client. I’m running 8.1 and can select items in a listbox, but cannot populate items in a dropdown or listbox. If one of you are able to get it to work, can you post an example of what the XFA should look like here? Thanks.

Sandeep Virmani,

The evaluation version of LC Designer is the full version except that it has a time limit for its use, after which you’ll have to purchase a copy.

When you talk of exporting “the form data in XML format”, are you saying you’re trying to put a submit button on your form which, when pressed, would submit the form’s data in XML format to an email recipient? If so, simply use the email submit button found in the Library palette’s Standard tab.

Steven,

I’m a little puzzled as to why this is happening but I have to admit: Your sample XML data (the response from the web service, I assume) looks a little suspicious. When I look at it, I don’t see a repeating section in the way Designer (and XFA) is expecting it. Obviously, the intention is that the “LogNum” data node repeats but in order for the instances to be correctly determined, the repeating data node must contain some other node. Otherwise, there’s nothing to bind the repeatable subform to and then there’s nothing to bind a field within that subform to.

If you were to create a data connection using that sample XML data, the data connection would show you a single data node named “LogNum”. It wouldn’t show you a “LogNum” data node that contains something else.

If you restructured the XML data like this:

<Logs>
    <Log>
        <Num>12345</Num>
    </Log>
    <Log>
        <Num>54321</Num>
    </Log>
</Logs>

then the repeatable subform inside the flowed subform could bind to the <Log> data node and a field inside the subform could bind to the <Num> data node. Establishing these bindings would create multiple instances of the repeatable subform where each instance’s field is populated with the correct log number.

Marion,

Are you certain the web service operation type you’re connecting to is “document/literal”? If not, the web service data connection will not work properly.

Madhavi,

You can manually execute a web service data connection by accessing it in the ConnectionSet DOM and calling its execute() method. Try putting this script in the form’s Initialize event and get rid of the button:

xfa.connectionSet.{WebServiceDataConnectionName}.execute();

where {WebServiceDataConnectionName} is the name you gave to your web service data connection.

Madhavi,

I could see why you would’ve tried the data drop down list however it’s pre-configured to work with ODBC data connections, not web service data connections. If you simply create an execute binding to the drop down list, you’ll only get a single value. You would need to use Dynamic Binding in order to get all results from the web service merged into the drop down list as items.

As for your question about the process, I’m afraid that’s not my strong suit. I would suggest you post that question to the Adobe LiveCycle ES Workbench Forum. Hopefully someone there could answer your question.

…by the way. I am using Acrobat 8.0 Professional

I tried your tutorial and as soon as I push the “Echo Employee Btn”, after filling out the information, I am given the message “error attempting to read from file”. I tried connecting to a webservice that someone at my organization wrote and it gave me the same message until he changed the authentication method in the virtual directory to “anonymous access”. I do not competely understand what he did, but once he made the change it worked. However, it still did not work for your example neither any other examples I tried online.

Brian,

I tested my sample form and I’m getting an “error 500” response from the “echoEmployee” web service. That tells me that there’s something wrong with the web service (the server), not the form or Acrobat. Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do about that since I don’t own it.

If your colleague had created a web service that required authentication and you were connecting to it with Designer 8.1, which doesn’t support authenticated web service access (or you tried this with Designer 8.2 but didn’t configure the authentication), then this would explain the error before they switched it to “anonymous access”.

As for other web services out there, it could be an authentication problem just the same or something entirely different. It’s difficult to tell what, exactly.

Brian,

This is the sort of thing LiveCycle ES Process Management was designed to handle. The process would manage the email routing as needed.

Stefan

I am trying to implement a similar solution and my requirement is something like this:

I have a PDF form that was developed in LiveCycle Designer 8 and user rights enabled using Acrobat 8.
This PDF form will be posted on our organization’s website, so that our users can download the form to their desktop. (Note: our users are not connected to our corporate network).
Users will fill out the form and then click on the Submit button located on the form.
When they submit, data should be posted directly to our IMS database.

We are still in the design phase and I would like to know what the architecture would look like. We have IMS connect which is an interface between the XML stream and the IMS database.

Now my question is:

1. What are all the components required to do this? (Web server, Application Server, LiveCycle Server, IMS Connect, IMS database). I am just looking for some step by step guide on how the data flows from pdf form to database how the components/servers are interacting.
2. Do we need to write any servlet/php scripts that will send the form data in xml or just changing the “Submit As” property would do the trick?

Much appreciate your help.

Hi Stefan,

I am still in learning phase of LiveCycle Designer and Workflow . I’m trying to follow your tutorial “Connect to Web Service” but having a problem that I don’t get the other data populate. How do I make the form that when a user enter a emp ID and press on the button then the response will populate all the information such as name, address, etc for that empl ID which connect from the web service that I created in the Workflow (I created it by using SQL qpac in Wkflow 7.2)? I know that I miss something but could not figure out so I would like to get some help/hints from you. Note that I am still using LiveCycle Designer and Worflow 7.2. Do you have some tutorial or example from the scratch, please provide it. Thanks very much in advance. I appreciated much.

Regards,
Han Dao

Han Dao,

If you’re calling the web service appropriately, then this kind of trouble is probably related to the bindings you’ve set on the fields.

Web services have import and export bindings. The export bindings are for the request part of the web service (the data that goes out like the empid data to do the query) and the import bindings are for the response part (the data that comes back to the form like fname, lname, etc.).

You should have the lanid and empid fields bound to export bindings within the web service data connection and you should also have fields bound to fname, lname, etc., bound to the import bindings.

The easiest way to verify that the web service is working as expected may be to simply drag & drop the entire data connection onto a blank form. This will create all of the import and export fields and bindings. You can then fill-in the empid and lanid fields manually and invoke the web service. You should then see the data coming back in the fname, lname, etc., fields.

If that works, then it points to a binding problem in your form.

Hello Stefan,

I have workbench and livecycle designer installed on my work machine. I have a form which talks to web service to get the firstname, lastname and address.
When i tried to open this form on my work machine, it did not populate any data.
I do have a personal machine on which i have acrobat professional 9 Extended version installed. The same form runs on this machine and populates data from the same web service.

Work machine just have the workbench 8.2 ES and adobe reader, but no acrobat professional.
Do i need to install acrobat professional and work machine or do i have to extended usage rights of the form using reader extensions?

I’m using a sample webservice that requires basic authentication to the webservice, but I don’t know how to submit the credentials via the dataconnection with ALCD 7.1. Any ideas?

I have setup the form (dc) via a webservice.

Hi Stefan,

If a web service returns multiple records, what object do you use to parse through the records?

I am using Designer 8.0 and I have searched through all the resources I can find for some javascript that will allow me to query the result set and select the record and I want. But I have yet to find anything. Can you get me started?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi Stefan,

We are trying to connect to our server using WSDL from pdf. We are using Adobe Livecycle Designer ES and Acrobat reader. The WSDL is supposed to return a list of items when an input string from pdf is submitted to the server. Though I am successful working with other free WSDL files, I couldnot able to get results with our WSDL file.
After creating a new data connection using our WSDL file, in the data tab I could see a text input and a button for out going message body which is obvious in our case( text box for text and button to submit the text). But the incoming message body only has a subform and nothing else(supposed to have a textbox or dropdownlist when compared with working examples).
Our WSDL is working good with html forms. It would be very helpful if you could suggest a solution for us. Our WSDL file is located at
https://qhrdev.healthquilt.org/ccrimport/meds.php?wsdl=true

Thanks,
ADi

Hi Stefan
I’m able to create a WSDL data connection and populate the pdf with the results.
But im having problems pushing data to a web service. I have a pdf with a dynamic table and have consumed a WSDL. I’ve mapped the columns to the wsdl but when I call the webservice, only the data from the last row gets passed, not all the rows.

chully park,

If you’re using a version of Acrobat/Reader prior to 8.1, then you’re likely running into a bug where only the last instance of a repeating table/subform is sent to the web service (rather than all instances).

vlada,

First, it’s not possible to programatically load XML data into a form due to security restrictions. If you could, you would do it with xfa.host.importData(file.xml) however this will not work unless the script executing this statement is “trusted” (which means it’s in a special JavaScript folder on the user’s system). Otherwise, you’ll get the file picker dialog where the user can choose an XML file to load (or cancel the dialog altogether) — assuming they’re using Acrobat or the PDF has been extended, using LiveCycle Reader Extensions, to permit data import in Reader.

Using a web service is an alternative, as you can have a method on that service that returns an URL-encoded XML string which you can decode, using the JavaScript decode() function, and then load into the form’s Data DOM. You could do this by pre-processing the web service response. That being said, you’ll still run into problems doing this using Reader because the PDF will need to be extended to allow data import privileges using LiveCycle Reader Extensions.

Jalal Mohtashami,

LC Forms ES can be used to import and export data into/from a form and this is done server-side. LC Reader Extensions ES is used to enable Reader to do this client-side which, by default, it cannot do.

The only thing Reader can do, without LC Forms in the background or a reader-enabled PDF, is submit XML data by email or HTTP. That being said, there are ways, which aren’t necessarily secure, to get data into Reader. This is one that I have explored.

Sorry, let me correct my typing error:

Regarding data binding, is this limitation also coming from the EULA of LiveCycle Designer or is it simply that these solutions are needed to facilitate the connection.

I ask because my manager is asking me to look into a programmatic work around of this limitation.

Hi ALL,

In LiveCycle 8.2.1 , i had created a wokkflow to convert a document to PDF and storing it to some location on the server itself( by using writedata operation).
work fine for watch folder end point( to confirm that there is no errors in workflow)

Now, i had one input type variable inDoc(as Document)

i want to send the attached document in PDF file through WSDL to the LiveCycle server by creating Data Connection in Designer (http://servername:port/soap/services/%5Bservicename%5D?wsdl).

Now i had attach the document( .txt for example) by following command in button’s click event:

form1.#subform[0].Button1[0]::click – (JavaScript, client)

var myDoc= event.target;
myDoc.importDataObject(“file”);

in data connection i see four text fields for input document ( contentType,BinaryData,attachmentID,remoteURL) dragged only contentType and BinaryData TextFields on the page.

also dragged the invoke button (invokeBtn) which is now in invisible mode.

i used the following script to retrive the data form the attachment and try to send it to livecycle input variable(indoc).

form1.#subform[0].Button1[1]::click – (JavaScript, client)

var myDoc= event.target;
var con = myDoc.getDataObjectContents(“file”);
var cFile = util.stringFromStream(con , “utf-8”);
// assigning data to textfield dragged form data connection
binaryData.rawValue=cFile;

invokeBtn.execEvent(“click”);

Before excuting the above command i had supplied value for contentType as well to ‘application/msword’.

Now i went back to the workbench and saw (in recordings) that document had been recieved from the pdf file as mentioned above.
However, as you can noticed that i had converted the binary data to simple string before sending it to server, so the characters in the document are altogether diffrent( as it would be treating it a binary data and converting them again to some different format)
i did so as i was unable to send the binary stream directly using binaryData(since its a textfield and we can’t assign binary data to it.)

However, i’m getting the following error:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.adobe.pdfg.GeneratePDFImpl.createPDFCommon(GeneratePDFImpl.java:373)
at com.adobe.pdfg.GeneratePDFImpl.createPDF2(GeneratePDFImpl.java:143)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.component.impl.DefaultPOJOInvokerImpl.invoke(DefaultPOJOInvokerImpl.java:118)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.InvocationInterceptor.intercept(InvocationInterceptor.java:140)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor$1.doInTransaction(TransactionInterceptor.java:74)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.adapter.EjbTransactionBMTAdapterBean.doBMT(EjbTransactionBMTAdapterBean.java:197)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor310.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.invocation.Invocation.performCall(Invocation.java:345)
at org.jboss.ejb.StatelessSessionContainer$ContainerInterceptor.invoke(StatelessSessionContainer.java:214)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.invoke(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:149)
at org.jboss.webservice.server.ServiceEndpointInterceptor.invoke(ServiceEndpointInterceptor.java:54)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor.invoke(CallValidationInterceptor.java:48)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractTxInterceptor.invokeNext(AbstractTxInterceptor.java:106)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractTxInterceptorBMT.invokeNext(AbstractTxInterceptorBMT.java:158)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorBMT.invoke(TxInterceptorBMT.java:62)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatelessSessionInstanceInterceptor.invoke(StatelessSessionInstanceInterceptor.java:154)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor.invoke(SecurityInterceptor.java:153)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor.invoke(LogInterceptor.java:192)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.invoke(ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.java:122)
at org.jboss.ejb.SessionContainer.internalInvoke(SessionContainer.java:624)
at org.jboss.ejb.Container.invoke(Container.java:873)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.local.BaseLocalProxyFactory.invoke(BaseLocalProxyFactory.java:415)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.local.StatelessSessionProxy.invoke(StatelessSessionProxy.java:88)
at $Proxy194.doBMT(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.EjbTransactionProvider.execute(EjbTransactionProvider.java:95)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.intercept(TransactionInterceptor.java:72)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.InvocationStrategyInterceptor.intercept(InvocationStrategyInterceptor.java:55)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.InvalidStateInterceptor.intercept(InvalidStateInterceptor.java:37)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.AuthorizationInterceptor.intercept(AuthorizationInterceptor.java:132)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.JMXInterceptor.intercept(JMXInterceptor.java:48)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.engine.impl.ServiceEngineImpl.invoke(ServiceEngineImpl.java:115)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.routing.Router.routeRequest(Router.java:118)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.base.AbstractMessageReceiver.routeMessage(AbstractMessageReceiver.java:91)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.vm.VMMessageDispatcher.doSend(VMMessageDispatcher.java:215)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.base.AbstractMessageDispatcher.send(AbstractMessageDispatcher.java:57)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClient.invoke(ServiceClient.java:208)
at com.adobe.workflow.engine.PEUtil.invokeAction(PEUtil.java:724)
at com.adobe.idp.workflow.dsc.invoker.WorkflowDSCInvoker.transientInvoke(WorkflowDSCInvoker.java:346)
at com.adobe.idp.workflow.dsc.invoker.WorkflowDSCInvoker.invoke(WorkflowDSCInvoker.java:157)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.InvocationInterceptor.intercept(InvocationInterceptor.java:140)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor$1.doInTransaction(TransactionInterceptor.java:74)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.adapter.EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.execute(EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.java:342)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.adapter.EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.doRequiresNew(EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.java:284)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor246.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.invocation.Invocation.performCall(Invocation.java:345)
at org.jboss.ejb.StatelessSessionContainer$ContainerInterceptor.invoke(StatelessSessionContainer.java:214)
at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor.invoke(CachedConnectionInterceptor.java:149)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatelessSessionInstanceInterceptor.invoke(StatelessSessionInstanceInterceptor.java:154)
at org.jboss.webservice.server.ServiceEndpointInterceptor.invoke(ServiceEndpointInterceptor.java:54)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor.invoke(CallValidationInterceptor.java:48)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.AbstractTxInterceptor.invokeNext(AbstractTxInterceptor.java:106)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT.runWithTransactions(TxInterceptorCMT.java:389)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT.invoke(TxInterceptorCMT.java:166)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor.invoke(SecurityInterceptor.java:153)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor.invoke(LogInterceptor.java:192)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.invoke(ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor.java:122)
at org.jboss.ejb.SessionContainer.internalInvoke(SessionContainer.java:624)
at org.jboss.ejb.Container.invoke(Container.java:873)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.local.BaseLocalProxyFactory.invoke(BaseLocalProxyFactory.java:415)
at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.local.StatelessSessionProxy.invoke(StatelessSessionProxy.java:88)
at $Proxy193.doRequiresNew(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.EjbTransactionProvider.execute(EjbTransactionProvider.java:143)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor.intercept(TransactionInterceptor.java:72)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.InvocationStrategyInterceptor.intercept(InvocationStrategyInterceptor.java:55)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.InvalidStateInterceptor.intercept(InvalidStateInterceptor.java:37)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.AuthorizationInterceptor.intercept(AuthorizationInterceptor.java:132)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.JMXInterceptor.intercept(JMXInterceptor.java:48)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.engine.impl.ServiceEngineImpl.invoke(ServiceEngineImpl.java:115)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.routing.Router.routeRequest(Router.java:118)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.soap.axis.AdobeAxisServiceProvider.invokeMethod(AdobeAxisServiceProvider.java:222)
at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:186)
at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:323)
at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.SOAPService.invoke(SOAPService.java:454)
at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:281)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:699)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:810)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.soap.axis.InvocationFilter.doFilter(InvocationFilter.java:43)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:81)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve.invoke(CustomPrincipalValve.java:39)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:159)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:59)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:112)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Kindly suggest me on it as i had to send the attachment from the PDF file as an input variable using LiveCycle WSDL.

Regards,
Manish

I had found another way of achieving the above where i’m only using the javascript(i.e. No Data connection wizard).

form1.#subform[0].Button1[0]::click – (JavaScript, client)

var myDoc= event.target;
myDoc.importDataObject(”file”);

————–

form1.#subform[0].Button1[0]::click – (JavaScript, client)
///
var myDoc= event.target;
var con = myDoc.getDataObjectContents(“file”);
var myProxy = SOAP.connect(“http://10.10.129.176:8080/soap/services/Webservices?wsdl”);
var myObject = {soapType: “SOAP-ENC:base64” ,soapAttachment: true,soapValue: con};
var result = myProxy.invoke({doc:myObject});
console.println(“Result is ” + result);
———————————————–
“doc” refer to the variable used in workbench an a input variable of type document.
“invoke” is a method in it.
However if try to do the same for input type varibles (xsd:int) or (xsd:string) by making any other services then it works fine.

However, when i try to attach the document then i get the following error in acroabt debeggur:
SOAPError: No such operation ‘invoke’
SOAP.request:1:XFA:form1[0]:#subform[0]:Button1[0]:click

above error comes if change the type from soapType: “SOAP-ENC:base64” to “impl:BLOB”

Further i removed soapAttachment: true from myObject and i got the following error:

SOAPError: The input BLOB object should have attachmentID, remoteURL, or binaryData field specified.
SOAP.request:1:XFA:form1[0]:#subform[0]:Button1[0]:click

which gives me a sense that almost everything here is fine but somewhere somethings is missing.

Kindly suggest.

Regards,
Manish

Hi Stefan,
I´ve created a pdf form using Adobe Livecycle Designer and I´ve distributed it so every user can save it with data. I´ve loaded it in the web server. To populate data in the form_, I create a xdp using an asp page and it works cool.
Now I want to call a web service from the form_ and read the data received to populate some field in the form, but it doesn´t work using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is it necesary LC Reader Extensions ES?

Hi Stefan,

Can we use a LC WS under HTTPS in order to make a DataConnection?

Thanks!

Carlos

Hi
I am using LiveCycle Designer. I manage to setup a connection to a web service and and select the operation.
How ever the input and out put fields don’t dispaly.
I would like to know if this is due to my WSDL setup.
How can I be sure?.
I would like to look at the WSDL used in this example to be sure but the link does not work. Can you help

Thanks

What if the web service requires authentication (say Simple User Name/Password) ?

I managed to call a web service that requires authentication, but this is prompting the user to enter the credentials.

How to call the web service and pass the User Name / Password without prompting the user ?

How to embed the password inside the PDF, and prevent the user from getting the password ?

Tarek.

Thanks Stefan.

But, the method shown here http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/wsdl_binding.html will always prompt the user to enter user name and password. How to embed the credential inside the WSDL connection definition ?

Tarek.

Hi Stefan,

I have a question for you, maybe you have experienced this requirements before, and have a few minutes to help me…

I am using a web service based data connection, with form fields bound to the request and response parameters. Everything works fine, except one thing. I am trying to identify the moment data comes back, as I need to trigger more code inside the form. For instance, i need to make form updates depending on the received response. Change event does not work with anything but direct user actions, and the web service response is treated like an import data action, not followed by change event… Do you know an approach that would allow me to trap or listen for the moment data comes through the web service response?

Thank you,
Julian

Thanks Stefan for the great replies. I just wish that you can emable email notification for the comment which you are subscribed to.

Tarek.