I hadn’t heard of this before but I did confirm the behaviour with IE8 and Acrobat 9.3.3. IE8 hanged and I had to kill iexplore.exe using the Task Manager.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will report it.

I used your <validate>prePrint</validate> solution to validate required field before printing. Everything works very smoothly. But we recently found a problem. When pdf is opened in the browser, prePrint validation works perfectly if user clicks “Print” button in embedded adobe toolbar in the browser. But if user clicks File -> Print menu in the browser, it shows the validation message and then browser hangs and I have to “End Task” the browser. I am not sure anyone has faced this problem. Could you please let me know if there is any solution to this problem.

Regards,

Mitesh

Thanks so much for the tutorial … in a matter of minutes my forms were behaving as I hoped they would!

This message will appear after the Validate event fires. The sequence of events is “Validate > FormReady > LayoutReady” when the form is opened, then “Validate > LayoutReady” when you’re changing its value.

If you’re using Designer 9.0 with XFA 3.0, there is a new “ValidationState” event that fires whenever a field’s valid state changes from valid to invalid or invalid to valid. This event occurs immediately after the Validate event, if the state changes, followed by the other events in the sequence.

Is there anyway to get the “At least one required field was empty on export. Please fill in the required fields (highlighted) before continuing” message in the form?
In other words, which event in form happens after the message?

Thanks.

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!