Handling Form Returns - Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual

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If you distribute your form from Acrobat, data from your returned forms
is compiled in a PDF portfolio, created as part of the distribution process
(read about distribution in #92, "Distributing Forms"). As the data starts to
flow in, use the PDF Portfolio feature to sort or filter the returns, edit data
in-line, and add more data as additional returns are received.
To open your returns file, you can do the following:
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Choose Track Forms from the Forms task button's menu.
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Choose File > Open to locate and select the PDF returns file.
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Click View Responses on the Tracker (shown in Figure 93).
The responses PDF Portfolio opens with a welcome page, explaining the
tasks you can complete in the file. Click Get Started to close the Welcome
window, and open the PDF portfolio, shown in Home mode view as a table
listing the fields from your form and returned responses (Figure 94a).
Figure 94a The returns are listed in the PDF portfolio.
You can do several maintenance and management tasks with your
form returns:
Update returns. Click Update
responses online and include them in the portfolio returns, or show a
message saying there are no new responses.

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Who Needs an
Archive?
You might want to use an
archive file if you use the same
form on an ongoing basis,
such as for customer expe-
rience forms. Create a new
response file, filter the results
(based on a date range, for
example), and send them to
the Archive folder for safe-
keeping. That way, your port-
folio shows only the latest
returns, and makes it easier to
find a particular response or
range of responses.
From the Library of Daniel Dadian