They (client) have a couple of hundred forms in PDF format that they want
*their* clients to be able to "fill out" and "submit". We have CF sitting on
their server. On their (client's) end, they want to be able to save the same
PDF form, but filled out, on their end.
Likely scenario:
The Client's "client":
I log in, click on a form, the PDF loads, I fill out the PDF, click a button
on the PDF, some CF happens that I don't see. A thank you page is displayed,
and I go about my business. (Upside, no form validation, they're going to be
"going over" each form themselves on the back end)
The Client:
Some notification (Hey, a PDF was filled out!), log in to a back end, see a
list of forms submitted, date submitted maybe, and by whom (based on above's
loginID). Click on a link to the latest entry, the PDF loads (?) and it's
filled in with the information from the previous submission (?), I click
"save" (I have Acrobat Pro on my end, I'm "The Client".) and it saves it
maybe with the date/time added to the end of the file name...
Now, I know about 50% of that, but I'm willing to jump in the direction of
any CF based way of accomplishing that very scenario. Oh, and it's hosted on
Crystal Tech, who (rightfully so) informed us that loading an application
would require us to be on our own dedicated server (so, no beef there,
legit, I get it and it just gives me my design parameters, I'm anything if
not flexible and understanding), but a .dll could be done, so keep that in
mind. Also, these forms are insurance-related, so they'll contain stuff like
SSNs and other assorted goodies, so simply emailing them won't really work
(unless encryption can be worked into that scenario). I was hoping to be
able to write all this to happen behind an https://, to take care of that
concern.
Now, notice that, if the PDF was a form, it'd be an easy exercise, but I'm
just not sure about the whole, "inserting stuff into a PDF from a CFQUERY
tag" thing. But again, eager beaver...
So my question, I guess is, how best to accomplish this, with the tools I've
got? We can explore getting some possibly sub-grand cost PDF/FDF .dll stuff
to assist, but can this be done with CF or running on a CF server?
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