Submitting forms anonymously

Anonymous forms submit is the perfect solution in all those cases when you need to propagate your PDF business forms to users that otherwise do not have access to your SharePoint environment, such as: sending PDF forms by e-mail; providing your partners and clients with various business forms; online application forms; online forms for surveys and requests and many more To be able to submit PDF forms to the SharePoint library from outside of...

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Advanced: PDF Form population via External List custom action

This article is step by step guide how to populate PDF forms with data form External list. For the purpose of this guide, we have prepared the following External Content Type: (Click on the image to view it in full size) Assuming “ADDRESS” field is unique, we can identify an External list item through that field. Step 1. Prepare template with custom server “Form Load” action. Add the following script to a “Form...

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Advanced: How to automate PDF Forms fields to contain preset information

PDF SharePoint provides Web Services that allow to retrieve and update PDF forms data and template. This guide describes how to create simple console application to work with PDF SharePoint Web Services. Please note that this guide is intended for advanced users. Preparations 1. Add service reference. Use the following  web service url: http://yourSiteName/_vti_bin/PDFForms/PDFForms.svc/MEX Replace “yourSiteName” with the proper site...

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Error: “The sandboxed code execution request was refused because the Sandboxed Code Host Service was too busy to handle the request”

This week we were helping one of our customers to resolve issue with sandbox deployment. The customer uses PDF SharePoint “WSP deployment” feature and was unable to activate sandbox solution. For those, who do not know what “WSP deployment” feature is, I recommend to check the following blog article: http://www.pdfsharepoint.com/deployment-of-pdf-template-as-sandboxed-wsp-solution/ During the activation of WSP package in...

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