I had indeed reported this issue to the team back in Aug 2008. Unfortunately, it didn’t make the cut for Acrobat/Reader 9 (as you concluded yourself). All I can say here is that they are considering a fix for a future release of Acrobat/Reader. You should get in touch with Enterprise Support if you want/need more information than that…

Just wanted to follow up on our discussion (above) from August 13, 2008.

You had mentioned that you would see if you could approach the Acrobat team to address the problem with File->Print and Cntrl-P not changing focus within Acrobat (and therefore not committing the rawValue for the field which the user currently has in focus).

I had also reported this issue through the Enterprise Support team and was told that it was tagged as a “future enhancement” for Acrobat 9.x

Just wondering if you have heard anything back from this – as I have resumed testing with the latest version of Acrobat and this problem is still present.

It would be very helpful to have a robust method of preventing printing based on validation.
Thanks
- Duane

Unfortunately, you can’t customize it. Your only option is to do your own validation and show your own dialog with your own message.

Can I customize this message “At least one required field was empty on export. Please fill in the required fields (highlighted) before continuing” to any other string ? and if yes, how can I do that ?

Thanks!

That red border is generated by Acrobat/Reader. If there’s a way to modify it, I think it would be in the Preferences for the application itself and not necessarily overridable with code.

Unfortunately, you can only query for the setting via script at runtime. It’s a read-only property since the Config DOM options are loaded at document start-up and aren’t looked-at afterwards.

xfa.config.acrobat.validate.value

will get you the current setting. You can also set the value (i.e. there’s no error when you try to set it) however there is no effect. If you check it afterwards, you’ll see it’s still set to whatever it was set to in the XML Source.

Can you tell me one way to change the xfa by code, so one can set the prePrint node in runtime?

Thank you

If you’re using Acrobat/Reader 8 or later you may be able to use the techniques described in this post (though you may need to use a radio button list instead of two checkboxes to make it work). Otherwise, you would have to use the two button submit technique and use a Print button instead of a Submit button.

How we can validate two check boxes before printing?
Checks boxes are Yes, No and the user have to check one.

Thanks