Hi - I'd really appreciate some advice.  I am designing a process which will involve field staff signing up new clients using a form (designed in Acrobat X Pro) on an Android tablet device (Galaxy Tab 2 7.0) and getting the data back to head office where it will be used to populate a database.  I also want a copy of the filled in form - either as a PDF, or by re-populating a 'shell' form with the data.

Some of the required fields for the database are not actually collected on the form, but are generated by either performing a calculation on the form data or by looking it up in another data source such as an Excel wiorksheet.  Ideally there would be also some simple validation checks to stop staff entering inconsistent data, but this is not essential.

I started out trying to design all the functionality into the form, only to find that no mobile reader will currently handle any javascript, xfa etc.  So my new approach has been to strip the form down to textfields and dropdown lists, and then do all the conversion back at head office - get the data into Excel, manipulate it and then convert to csv to get it into my database.

My remaining problems are these:

1.  Because Reader 10.2 saves the form as it goes along, it doesn't seem to be possible to store a blank template (as in Excel or Word) and use this to generate new forms for each new client, so there's a big risk of inadvertently overwriting.   Is this right and is there a workround?

2.  I think I'm right in saying that, while Reader 10.2 will email the full PDF, it won't email fdf data, which means that when the form arrives at head office I have to open the whole form in Acrobat in order to merge it to a spreadsheet.  Is this right or is there a simpler way?

3.  While Reader 10.2 will email a file (either directly via GMail or by responding to a 'submit' button in the form itself), email is not necessarily the best way of doing this - not least because it adds another step into the process (that of saving the email attachment to disk in order to extract the data to Excel).  Is it possible to upload the completed form to Dropbox (or similar) from within the Reader (I'm trying to avoid anything that is going to mean field staff having to do file manipulation on a tablet - I want it automated or button driven as far as possible)

4. The workflow:  fill in form, email pdf to head office, save attachment, upload into Acrobat, merge to spreadsheet, manipulate, export as csv, import csv into database - is all getting a bit complex and inelegant.  Any other ideas for achieving what, in essence, must be a simple and widespread business process, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ross