I’m glad you found what the problem was and it’s always nice to hear that my articles are useful! Thanks!

Either way, these articles are a GODSEND, and thanks again, and again, and again…….

I have taken your method and tried to adapt it to my needs, just to display an autonumber field from a simple access database I created. Not trying to change any records, just display the last entry in an autonumber field. I used the sql statement “Select last(JobNumbers) from JobWorkNumbers”
Strange behavior, if I open the pdf in the reader, its displaying the 2nd to last record, and if I open it with acrobat it displays the last entry as I planned. You do say that I will get errors if I push data into this database, because of the autonumber field, but I thought just reading from it would be ok. Any suggestions?

This is likely due to the fact that you’re editing an XFA-PDF form using Acrobat. An XFA-PDF form can’t be edited in Acrobat in the same way a normal PDF can be (adding/removing pages, etc.). I think you would need to start by importing the pages from the PDF into an XFA form in Designer and then copy/paste the result into your original form.

It sounds like what you want to do is connect your form to your Access database. Once you figure-out how to do that, you might want to include a drop down list of client names in your form from which you can choose the client for whom you’re filling-out the form. When you select the client’s name, all their information (presumably stored in your database) would be pre-loaded into those fields you normally have to fill by hand.

Note that you’ll need Acrobat Standard or Pro to import data into your form from your database and, should you want others to be able to do the same, each system will need Acrobat Standard/Pro as well as a configured DSN to connect to the database (which will need to be accessible from all systems concerned).

You should be able to connect to a web service running over HTTPS rather than plain (exposed) HTTP however I certainly cannot give you any guarantees as to how secure this solution would be. If you want to be sure, I suggest you contact Adobe Support.

I’m a secretary (without any IT/programmer training), but always need to fill in government’s form in Acrobat form format for my clients. Ususally are surname, given name, address, working status … etc, approx 30-50 fields.

However, sometime I make typo being filling too much fields. As I had created my client’s database in MS Access and can you teach me how to link/convert my MS Access database to Acrobat Adobe Form? Or any software you can sugget me to us?

Thanks
Timmy

What if the data is HIGHLY confidential (subject to litigation if it were leaked) ? Would you still recommend the web service? If so, how do you secure it?