Tracking the changes in Adobe forms

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We have a requirement for tracking all the changes in Adobe Interactive forms Suppose user enters the data & submit it,After that if any other user opens the form & change it,it should be tracked(Its something like track mode in MS Word) .How can we achieve this?

regards

Sumit

[amolgupta]

hi sumit,

i still dont get you...

you want to report on the pdf that <xyz> field was modified on <xyz> date...??

or just want to change the contents of the UI elements on the pd??

regards,

-amol gupta

[Former Member]

Hi Amol,

I hope u have used the MS word in track mode.In that if u change some thing ,it shows an arrow with the changed data & displays the info like changed by,changed date,changed content etc.

I need same thing in PDF .

regards

Sumit

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Sumit Malhotra

[amolgupta]

hi,

MS word is an application, you can load it with loads of features. but on a web based application the more features u put, the more heavy it becomes.

what you can do is...

whenever a change is made, store the date, username, last value, current value in a database table.

immediately below the UI element, make a dropdown with caption "Change History"

Populate the dropdown dynamically from the table where you stored the change.

you may want to store the last change only, in that case you can have a textbox only.

not a very good idea since it wud take space on pdf form....

but still... worth considering.

with regards,

-amol gupta

[Former Member]

Hey Sumit,

You may check out the digital signature features.

Hope this helps,

- anto.

[amolgupta]

hi Sumit,

so far i have not seen any instance of such track cahnges.

the values simply get overwritten.

this thing can be achieved only after one submits the form online.

where you can maintain change history.

the user should be able to edit the changes offline and submit the final copy online. the tracking can be done online whenever a user requests to update/reload existing pdf in DataStore...

hope this helps.

with regards,

-amol gupta

[Former Member]

Hi Amol,

Actually my requirement is different.I want to see the changes in Adobe forms at runtime when user is changing the data online.Its something like MS Work in track mode.We can capture the changes from the data node in the context but how can we show that on pdf ,i m not sure abt that.

regards

Sumit