How to use Form Fields in Subject Line of email?

Question

I have a PDF form (in Adobe Livecycledesigner8.2) that is used to certify the restoration of pavement. Within that form I have a button to email me the form. It is the Adobe button object with a Submit Control Type.

I get the email but I want to include in the Subject line of the email a few of the forms values, which I cannot do.

I have this:

mailto:paving@MYDOMAIN.com?subject="Certificate " + TextField1.Value + ".pdf"

The subject comes through exactly as it is typed above and does not retrieve the field value.

Answer 1

Try TextField1.rawValue or .formattedValue instead of .Value

When I want to submit the PDF via E-Mail I usually just add a regular button and add this code in the "click"-Event: (I set the 4 variables "to,cc,emailSubject" and "Msg" before)

var emailSubject = "Certificate " + TextField1.rawValue + ".pdf";
event.target.mailDoc({
                    bUI:        false,
                    cTo:        to,
                    cCC:        cc,
                    cSubject:   emailSubject,
                    cMsg:       emailMsg,
                    cSubmitAs:  "PDF"   
            });