LiveCycle & Tutorials 31 Jul 2006 08:29 pm
Building Forms with LiveCycle Designer
I’m working on a multi-part tutorial on how to build enterprise solutions using Flex and LiveCycle. Here is the first episode that demonstrates the use of LiveCycle Designer. Please feel free to leave a comment so I could adjust my future tutorials accordingly.
Need to bring your Flex project up to speed? Zee Yang is a freelance Flex developer with deep understanding of architecture and user experience. You can reach him at zee.yang@gmail.com.
on 04 Aug 2006 at 7:48 am 1.Michael said …
I have to admit I have never heard of LiveCycle before, but your tutorial really sparked my interest. I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Thanks a lot for this great info!
on 10 Aug 2006 at 2:29 pm 2.Kevin said …
Great tutorial. I’m not a programmer, but need to set up a way for students where I work to submit requests for equipment they want to checkout. I want the system to be live and web based, this new technology looks amazing, but I’m on a steep learning curve. Downloaded a trial version and moving forward.
on 10 Aug 2006 at 2:59 pm 3.Kevin Holland said …
Zee, I feel clueless, since after downloading the trial, the specs support windows, and I run a mac lab so I’m stuck. Any othe options for me? Kevin.
on 10 Aug 2006 at 7:31 pm 4.Zee said …
Hi Kevin,
LiveCycle Designer itself is windows only, but the PDF forms it generates are completely platform neutral. So to answer your question, you just need one windows machine to design the forms, and your students would be able to access the forms from any machine with a pdf reader installed (e.g. mac, linux, or even palm os).
Hope that helps,
-Z
on 15 Oct 2006 at 3:51 pm 5.Terry said …
Zee .. thank you so much for taking the time to create these tutorials. I just found this one so I am eager to see the others. I learned so much from this!
Please post more .. you are awesome! Your work is very much appreciated.
.. Terry
on 15 Nov 2006 at 8:39 am 6.Greg said …
Zee, great tutorial. I noticed in the tutorial that you saved the form as lesson1.xdp. But seconds later in PDF preview title bar filename was lesson1.pdf. What’s the difference between saving a form as XDP and “dynamic PDF”?
on 31 Jan 2007 at 1:58 am 7.simpy clickthe said …
Hey, thanks for that.
on 15 Feb 2007 at 10:51 pm 8.Erwin Michiels said …
Hello,
I am building an ‘everyday timing data sheet’ all related to every job we doing during the day.
Building and/ or designing the main sheet with LiveCycle Designer is without any problem.
My main problem is to find out what data I have to enter.
We should have a ’start’ + ‘end’ + ‘total’ and ‘grand total’ time with 15 minutes fractions.
Can somebody give me some answers and advice?!
Any help is hard welcome!
Thanks in advance,
Erwin Michiels/ Indonesia
on 05 Mar 2007 at 8:49 am 9.Vasilii said …
I\’m love this great website. Many thanks guye
on 26 Apr 2007 at 5:05 am 10.Merry said …
Hey, thanks for that.
on 24 Jun 2007 at 8:20 am 11.Stephen said …
Is someone able to tell me if what I have been told about Livecycle designer is true or not?
The following is what I was told, and I want to find out if my understanding is correct.
“Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional with Livecycle Designer will enable me to make fillable PDF forms (either with email option, print option, or both).
Forms designed in Livecycle designer can include fillable fields, and buttons for printing and/or email. When the form has been created, it is
then opened in Acrobat 8.0 so that security options can be set. It is then saved again. It can then be emailed to a client.
The client opens the file and fills in the fields. It can then be printed and/or returned via email depending on what the form designer has set on
the form. If the client wishes to return the file by email using “Submit”, only the actual data from the fillable fields is returned to the original
sender. The .xml file data can be opened in ‘Designer’, displaying the full form plus the data. All the information from the returned emails can also be collated in a spreadsheet.”
I’m obviously scared of forking out money to buy a programme that will not do what I want, and Adobe salespeople that I have dealt with haven’t a clue about their product.
on 24 Jun 2007 at 8:36 am 12.Zee said …
What you have there is correct, but one minor technicality – the returned data is opened in Acrobat, not Designer. Designer is only for designing forms. Acrobat handles all the post processing. If you are still not sure, just grab a trial version of Acrobat 8, which is bundled with Designer 8. Let me know if you run into any problems.
on 25 Jun 2007 at 9:32 am 13.david said …
I have 8.0 Pro and have created a form in Designer. The idea of the form is to solicit costs associated with a proposed IT pruchase. It will be handled/accessed/filled in by 4 different people…the original person who fills out the form and three people who will review and authorize the purchase, with each of the three adding comments and a digital signature/date to the form. Each tim,e the form is accessed it needs to retain it’s PDF structure with all information that has been filled in being retained. I don’t just need the data…i need the whole form. The form will then be printed out with all 4 department’s sigs/comments intact on the form.
Can this be done without all entities involved having Acrobat (only Reader) on their PC? If not, what are my other options, if there are any
on 25 Jun 2007 at 9:41 am 14.david said …
addendum to above post…
If in fact it is as i described above, would all parties involved, lncluding the first who initiates the form by making the request, have to have ACrobat installed on their PC? I have like 15 departments that will be making requests but only the 3 who will be reviewing/authorizing.
Could the 15 depts. just have Reader isntalled? Then, when they submit the form, the first of the 3 reviewers who access it can open the XML data that was received inside the original PDF form structure and make their comments/signature and pass on to the next reviewer, who also has Acrobat installed. This way only 3 people have to have ACrobat and not the 15 people who initiate the process. Is this correct?
on 25 Jun 2007 at 9:48 am 15.Zee said …
Hi David, what you described can be done as long as the form author has acrobat std or pro. It’s a feature call “reader extend” and it can be activated in Acrobat under advanced > enable usage rights…
Only the form author needs to have Acrobat. Forms initiators and approvers should be able to comment, save, and sign forms with just the reader.
on 30 Jun 2007 at 3:35 am 16.jawad said …
merciiiiii pour cette web
on 02 Aug 2007 at 5:46 am 17.Waleed said …
Wow !! nice one man ..
Really thank you it was great work.
on 10 Aug 2007 at 12:20 pm 18.Pierre said …
I’m just starting with LiveCycle Designer. My company installed on my PC by my request. I needed it to create a fillable personal financial statement PDF Form. I’m very frustrated though because I can’t find a nice step by step on how to create the FormCalc script that will allow me to sum a column of values as the user/client fills in the form in Reader.
I have no Java or scripting experience. The help text just throws a bunch of pre-created scripts at me that mean nothing. It would be nice if, like in an algebraic formula, the syntax was deciphered.
Anyone know where I can find how to create FormCalc script from scratch?
on 16 Aug 2007 at 12:25 pm 19.Jerry said …
Sir,
I have a form I developed with Designer 7. The form displays fine on the site. The fields populate fine. I press the submit button (mailto:) and the pdf arrives in my inbox. I return to the site and request another form. The data from the last form is still there. I have been placing $host.resetData()in various script events, to no avail. I thought it should be in the initialize event, but, it does clear the form on reload, and then when I click submit the emailed pdf is blank, as in No data. I placed the script in other events, but it will not work. Please help me. TIA, JL
on 04 Sep 2007 at 9:29 am 20.Yaniv said …
Hi
Im new to LiveCycle. Ive imported a PDF file and created a database connection. I then call a stored procedure on my SQL server and everything works fine. I am able to bind the results to floating text fields in my form. However, how does one pass a parameter to a stroed procedure? What if I want to access my stored procedure based on ID#? Can I pass in a parameter via the query string? If so, how do I pass that to the stored proc?
Thank you.
on 13 Sep 2007 at 7:51 am 21.Imobiliare said …
thank you so much for taking the time to create these tutorials.when more ?
on 17 Sep 2007 at 5:08 am 22.Jerry said …
Hi -Z,
We discussed an issue I was having with Acrobat 7, then with 8. That issue was resolved with a subsequent update from Adobe. Now to the next question.
I have a form with an email submit button at the bottom of the form (humm, imagine that! grin). I have tried with several different buttons (and html tags) to do a simple mailto:. I am trying to do a simple mailto: for questions, i.e. contact us at Mailto: xxx. This is inserted near the top of the form, in the directions box. The form seems to work when I do not have this inserted, and when I insert it into the form, the email portion goes to bit heaven or somewhere, anywhere but to the screen.
How do I get a simple mailto: with or without a generic button?
TIA,
Jerry
on 05 Oct 2007 at 6:27 am 23.Rafael said …
Very nice tutorial! I have saved a lot of time for research
on 05 Oct 2007 at 12:41 pm 24.Tapeten said …
The client opens the file and fills in the fields. It can then be printed and/or returned via email depending on what the form designer has set on
the form. If the client wishes to return the file by email using “Submit”, only the actual data from the fillable fields is returned to the original
sender.
on 15 Oct 2007 at 1:27 am 25.Lasuren said …
With this kind to communicate one will surely increase the Bekannheitsgrad for LiveCycle. Of LiveCycle I heard still nothing.
on 21 Oct 2007 at 1:49 pm 26.Skischule Bodenmais said …
Wow thanks you for the fantastic tutorial,
great work, guys.
on 27 Oct 2007 at 4:34 am 27.Yorgi64 said …
The big tutor. I not the programmer, but should establish a way for students, where I work to present inquiries about the equipment, they want to the control. I want, that the system was live and the based network, this new technology looks surprising, but I am on an abrupt curve of studying. Loaded the version of test and advancement.
on 10 Nov 2007 at 12:40 am 28.Hip Hop Klamotten said …
Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more.
on 15 Nov 2007 at 1:28 pm 29.Ophelia said …
Really great tutorial. Thanks
on 21 Nov 2007 at 2:38 pm 30.Zoli said …
Well.Finally someone created some great material .
Thanks .
on 27 Dec 2007 at 1:32 am 31.Alex said …
Only now find this tutorial. Very understandable and informative.
Thanks.
on 09 Jan 2008 at 3:39 pm 32.Anna said …
Hi. I need more help with LiveCycle Designer. I want to put my form on my web site, and have the “Submit” button send me an email of the filled-out pdf (without the filler having to use his/her own e-mail for sending). How do I do this?
Please help. An email would be best: hapm004@gmail.com
on 16 Jan 2008 at 8:24 pm 33.jcastro said …
Dear Zee,
I am trying to put a form together using LiveCycle Designer in which I have specific questions for potential clients to answer, and they can fill in underneath my quesitons their own response.
I have it set up fine. However, I added a submit e-mail button and for some reason it is not working. When clicked it says “This operation violates your permissions configurations.
I want potential clients to fill in the form, hit the e-mail button, and I want to be able to open it up in Adobe Acrobat (the free one) or a .txt file at least.
Any help or other program that will allow me to do this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
on 18 Jan 2008 at 1:22 am 34.Kunstforum said …
Great article. There are many useful informations inside. Thanks and greets from germany!
on 25 Jan 2008 at 2:31 am 35.plastik said …
Adobe LiveCycle Designer enables the creation of dynamic XFA form templates. This software supports XML data and schema bindings, enhances document security with template designs for digital signatures and enables compliance with government accessibility requirements for online forms. With it, anyone with Adobe Reader software can participate in secure, interactive data capture processes that extend to customers, partners or suppliers.
on 06 Feb 2008 at 1:33 am 36.plastik said …
I imagined that a Flex app that uses LCDS would work in a manner similar to using Flex with, for example, a web service. That is, I’d be able to create an instance of some object within my Flex app that handled my communication with LCDS. From how it looks right now, it seems that LCDS is baked at a lower level. Honestly though, I doubt that. Ultimately, I just don’t know.
on 13 Feb 2008 at 5:49 pm 37.Mink said …
I have a form that is successful in mailing out as a pdf when the person using the form via outlook or outlook express. If the individual does not have outlook, lotus, or a software based e-mail but instead used web based e-mail, what error message would occur. What would be a workaround for the e-mail button?
on 12 Mar 2008 at 9:15 am 38.Kathy said …
Hi Z
I like the look and format of your tutorial. I am brand new to this form designing thing. I have a form that has one area that may require an overlap to another page. I cannot understand the help directions in LiveCycle 8. Everything works om except that one text filed. Instead of going to another page, it just gives me a + sign at the end. Can you explain clearly how I get the next page to come into play? Email would be best at hailtohera@hotmail.com
Thanks
on 14 Mar 2008 at 10:52 am 39.Debbi said …
Thanks! Just learning Livecycle and struggling with the book. I took a form that was created in InDesign, turned it into a PDF, and then made it interactive with Livecycle. Now I am trying to figure out how to capture the data in Excel. Explaining about doing a schema helped me a lot.
on 18 Mar 2008 at 4:12 am 40.Thailand Newsblog said …
Thanks, i also love this part.
on 27 Mar 2008 at 2:46 pm 41.Bubbila said …
Sweet resource, just what I have been looking for.
on 29 Mar 2008 at 4:57 am 42.Festerfolien said …
Really great tutorial. Thanks
on 18 Apr 2008 at 12:41 pm 43.Ryan said …
on 09 Jan 2008 at 3:39 pm 32.Anna said …
Hi. I need more help with LiveCycle Designer. I want to put my form on my web site, and have the “Submit” button send me an email of the filled-out pdf (without the filler having to use his/her own e-mail for sending). How do I do this?
Please help. An email would be best: hapm004@gmail.com
PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS QUESTION…I NEED THE ANSWER TOO!
on 25 Apr 2008 at 4:55 am 44.Billigflüge said …
The form seems to work when I do not have this inserted, and when I insert it into the form, the email portion goes to bit heaven or somewhere, anywhere but to the screen.
on 26 Apr 2008 at 12:45 am 45.Skipper06 said …
For Ryan…
or how to use a button to send the filled fform back as an attached PDF
I am new to Adobe Designer but have done what you are looking for.
1/ I created a form layout from an Excel file
2/ With Life Cycle Designer I created fields overlaying the form
3/ I have inserted buttons for printing, sending by email and reinitializing all fields.
For the email button I struggled a bit because I could not send the form itself but only the data.
This was fixed by using a normal button and customizing it. I cannot tell you the exact options as my Adobe Version is in French but there are not this many options and they are easy to guess.
If you cannot make it work, let me know and I will send you my form…..
on 26 Apr 2008 at 1:06 am 46.Skipper06 said …
The tutorial has been very helpful. Thanks for this.
I am using a button to send the PDF form attached to an email.
I now would like to improve this by sending a copy of the email to the person who has filled in the form.
In the XML code the submit command for my button is:
I have created an email address field in the form. How can I pass this variable to the submit command?
on 06 May 2008 at 9:40 am 47.Germanische Mythologie said …
What does this actually Flex? What is LiveCycle?
on 02 Jun 2008 at 11:11 pm 48.shruthi said …
Hi
I have installed adobe acrobat proffessional 8 with live designer.I am supposed to create web service and link it to the designed form .
I have also installed Live cycle ES .
Everything is fine..
But finally when i click the button in the form..m not getting the desired result..i.e..m supposed to get the response from database.but when i click the button..it doesnt display the result.
wat cud b wrong?
Awaiting reply
Shruthi
on 17 Jun 2008 at 3:57 pm 49.Martin said …
Hello Zee, i’m looking now 30 min in youre Blog. Gread work. You are a good programmers. Since this time i didn’t now, that it give a desinger like this. Now i must looking at the trial Version.
best regards
Martin from Germany
on 02 Jul 2008 at 11:15 am 50.Ecologue said …
Hi Zee,
Great tutorial, really – easy to understand, even if you have no experience or so.
I have a question though – maybe Skipper06 can help me as well.
I have the same problem everyone seems to have about the “submit by email” thing. My form seems fine, I previewed it, I filled it in and I sent it by email, but then, there’s no way I can import the data back in the form using Acrobat.
At first, there was only the numeric field that worked and showed the data, but now, there’s nothing at all and I get a pop-up window that says there’s an error line 43, column 5…except I have no knowledge in programming and scripts and all that stuff!!
Skipper06, you said you fixed your problem using a customized normal button: how did you do? By selecting “submit” as Control Type?
You can explain me in french if you wish, I’m french
Anyway, thanks for the good work,
Ecologue
on 03 Jul 2008 at 6:45 am 51.Ecologue said …
Hey there,
I just found out the answer to my problem so I thought I might as well post it here in case someone else needs it. It was posted by Daniel Wittwer rigt there: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b5a448
”
Hi,
First: If you use the submit by email button, only xml is available as a choice. Instead, insert a Button, browse to the Object tab, and you will find the submit tab. Submit to URL: “mailto:” This will open the email application. Here you can set submit as PDF.
The XML file can be read in a standard text editor, or a xml parser.
Second: I believe you can only save the forms using Acrobat. For Acrobat Reader, I think you must enable Reader Extensions to be able to save the form.
I hope this helps you.
”
Hope it helps!
Ecologue
on 05 Aug 2008 at 7:09 am 52.Jens said …
You are a good programmers.
Jens from Germany
on 26 Aug 2008 at 3:58 pm 53.Vickie said …
Hi Zee,
How do I access the LiveCycle Designer Tutorial?
Thanks
on 31 Aug 2008 at 12:59 am 54.Tapeten versand said …
The Tutorium is really large and extensive. Thank you
on 16 Sep 2008 at 12:22 am 55.Webagentur said …
Thank, but what is this Flex?
on 16 Sep 2008 at 12:13 pm 56.Al said …
I am trying to create a button on my PDF form that will open my company’s Global Outlook Address book so a user can select a person from a list. Has anyone done this before?
on 25 Sep 2008 at 10:23 pm 57.Spider said …
Thanks, great tutorial. Need I say more?
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on 01 Oct 2008 at 1:42 am 59.messer-und-scheren said …
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Habe viele neue Informationen sammeln können, Danke!
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on 12 Oct 2008 at 1:10 am 60.Internetagentur said …
Mich interessiert auch dieses Flex und möchte auch entsprechend mehr darüber erfahren uum es auf folgender Site einsetzen zu können: Web Agentur
on 16 Nov 2008 at 3:31 am 61.Iren said …
Man kann es auch übertreiben!
on 19 Nov 2008 at 10:48 am 62.Dan said …
I have a form that was created in Designer 7.0. The PTB wanted the background image to disappear preprint and reappear postprint, which I have done, but in doing so I had to place the image in an image field. Now when the end-user clicks outside of the text fields, they get a dialog box asking them to select an image file.
Any idea on how to disable this function while still maintaining the other dynamic properties (text fields, print form button).
Thanks for any help.
on 20 Nov 2008 at 12:04 am 63.chocolate said …
hai, i just tried this software. now, i’ve assigned to find a solution to put running no in the form. it seems like ticket no. every time user download the form, the no of the form is changed.
i really appreciate if you can guide or give me a link to accomplish this task
on 09 Dec 2008 at 1:20 pm 64.Lauren said …
Thank you, I have to make a LiveCycle form and your tutorial was very helpful.
on 21 Jan 2009 at 6:51 am 65.Willie said …
I’m using LiveCycle 8.0 – I read through the posts and lots of good stuff on this site.
I’m looking for a way to display a Message instructing users about form as soon as they open the .pdf form and before they can enter any data.
Is there a way to script the form so a message can pop up when document is loaded?
on 18 Feb 2009 at 4:43 am 66.Ivonne said …
I have until now no LiveCycle, but wehe I read all this I think I have to make one, thanks for all your helpfull Informations.
on 27 Apr 2009 at 9:43 am 67.Chuck said …
I have a form created that the user can check off boxes etc …it is an entry form….they can enter there name….but when they click on Submit by email…all I get is the xml data….I want to receive the entire form with their information on it…
Is this possible?
Thanks
Chuck
on 27 Apr 2009 at 5:23 pm 68.Shelley said …
I’m creating my first form in Adobe Professional 7. It seems when I create a form from a Word doc, I’m able to duplicate a field name…hence the end user does not have to select it again on the following pages (9 page form). It populates on all pages with the same field name. I decided to create the same form from scratch in LiveCycle Designer so I’d have more flexibility with changes…but cannot seem to duplicate the field. It automatically creates a new field (I’m assuming with a new name). Is there a way to accomplish this in LiveCycle? Thanks for any advice!
on 05 May 2009 at 12:37 am 69.Lyin Lew said …
Hi Zee,
I just found out LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 which i have it for quite sometimes which i am not aware of it.
I need guidelines. May I access to the LiveCycle Designer Tutorial?
I tried to create a form from it, it works perfectly fine in my PC, but the users was unable to save the file with added info & send back via email. Only can print it out. Please help.
Just a little about my job scope, i am in marketing department, have to organize and conduct a lots of seminar through the year. so i need a form that customers able to fill it up & send back. from here i wish LiveCycle manage to populate the data into Excel for future reference.
Thanks in advance. really need your help.
on 06 May 2009 at 1:14 am 70.Internetagentur said …
Thank you, this little tutorial has me very helped.
on 08 May 2009 at 7:36 am 71.Maxi said …
Yes, please if someone knows the answer to Shelley’s question. It would be much appreciated.
I need to finish this form as soon as possible.
Thanks
on 14 May 2009 at 8:54 am 72.Jamie said …
I’m trying to create a livecycle doc that will submit a PDF form through my website using livecycle and importing the results in the resposnes pdf that livecycle creates is this possible and if how do you do this?
on 17 May 2009 at 5:24 am 73.Werbeagentur Berlin said …
This Flexlive seems very interesting. I try this.
on 25 May 2009 at 5:25 am 74.hardy said …
thanks for the great stuff
on 09 Jun 2009 at 6:55 am 75.Eddie Stack said …
I’m having problems getting a form to expand as a field grows. I have tried to get some feedback on the Adobe Forum, but I’m not getting the answer I need. I was wondering if you’d be willing to take a look at it and see if I’m doing something wrong. I created a table-like structure from text fields (which is what needs to expand) and the header for the table is comprised of text boxes above each field. I wrapped the text boxes in one positioned subform, and the text fields in another. I’ve got it so that when I paginate the first text field, it carries over the header just fine, but when the second field in the table paginates, it moves all data entered to the next page, leaving a ridiculously blank first page. I would really appreciate any help you can give me.
on 08 Jul 2009 at 2:10 pm 76.thomas2k said …
Thank u for the Post.
on 13 Jul 2009 at 1:59 pm 77.Jodi said …
Eddie – Did you mark the box Allow Page Breaks within Content? It is in the Field tab of the object tab. I can’t figure out how to get the field to grow and show all the information without having the little scroll bar appear at the right. Is that how it is supposed to work?
on 16 Jul 2009 at 12:45 pm 78.Rikki said …
Still trying to figure out how to allow survey responders to submit the pdf form without going through their email account. Trying to let them submit anonymously. Any help?????
on 22 Jul 2009 at 4:08 am 79.Autobörse said …
Great website. Many thanks!
on 22 Jul 2009 at 7:53 am 80.icem said …
Bonjour,
Mais ou se trouve le tutorial pour adobe livecycle designer. Nous cherchons un tutorial, livre, débutant. Est-ce qu’il y en a et est-ce en français?
merci
on 06 Aug 2009 at 2:17 am 81.Aktienkurse said …
Thanks for the post and all the interesting responses. It´s great stuff!
on 07 Aug 2009 at 11:50 am 82.richard said …
I have Adobe Designer 7.0. When I put the Image Field in the form it allows the user to import a graphic. The problem occurs if they want to delete it. If they bring in the wrong graphic, all they have to do is click the field and import the new one, which overwrites the old one. How can I have it so they can remove the graphic when one is not needed.
on 07 Aug 2009 at 11:40 pm 83.Joe Chirino said …
How can I make a button access a flv file and play a video in a form created in livecycle?
on 09 Aug 2009 at 2:14 am 84.spider said …
Thanks for posting and greetings from Germany:
my motto: mountains never meet, people always
on 11 Aug 2009 at 8:57 am 85.Konto said …
ok, thx a lot for the nice howto. ill try it out tomorrow. sounds good.
on 15 Aug 2009 at 2:10 pm 86.Druck said …
Really very interesting!
Have lots of new information can gather Thanks!
on 19 Aug 2009 at 6:07 am 87.Glossar said …
Many thanks also from me, I was able to gather good information.
on 19 Aug 2009 at 3:24 pm 88.tagesgeldvergleich said …
this is i was searching for. go on guys, thx a lot!
on 20 Aug 2009 at 8:45 am 89.NCJ said …
Hi,
I have a question on the controlling the color of an onClick event in a button.
I know how to create a button in LC Designer control the visual whether its a color or gradation as well as font and text, but I cannot figure out how to control the color when you click on the button.
The button color changes and often it is terrible.
Thanks in advance
on 22 Aug 2009 at 5:54 am 90.mpu said …
Great website. Many thanks and greetings from kurt from austria.
on 24 Aug 2009 at 5:41 am 91.Gurmeet said …
Hi Zee,
Please have something planned for form interaction with databases especially updating/fetching/manipulating records
on 24 Aug 2009 at 11:25 am 92.Tino Kuhl said …
Hey Zee, thank you so much for taking the time to create these tutorials. I just found this one so I am eager to see the others. We try to use the designer for make it more easy to find the right informations on our weblog about Finanzen.
on 25 Aug 2009 at 10:04 am 93.BlackOut said …
Nice Page
on 29 Aug 2009 at 9:01 am 94.Kris Lyons said …
Zee,
I have created a form with Livecycle and need help submitting it. Is there any way after submission of the form that when it is sent to me it can still retain format (instead of just xml)?
Thank you,
Kris Lyons
Kris.Lyons@nau.edu
on 02 Sep 2009 at 6:09 am 95.lazer epilasyon said …
I had to place the image in an image field. Now when the end-user clicks outside of the text fields, they get a dialog box asking them to select an image file.
on 07 Sep 2009 at 10:17 pm 96.Priya said …
I am unable to view this tutorial.
Could you send me the right link or let me know any other reasons why i cant view it..
Thanks..
on 16 Sep 2009 at 3:30 pm 97.Dirk said …
Why? I have no problem to view it.
regards
Dirk from
Girokonto
on 22 Sep 2009 at 2:24 pm 98.Jennifer said …
I am trying to create a form within LiveCycle and I am trying to create a script that will change one field based on the entry of another field. The fields are:
ProductType – drop down field (choices are productA, productB)
IncentiveOption – drop down field (choices are Show, Hide)
ProgramOption – drop down field (choices are Show, Hide)
If the user selects Product Type=ProductA, I would like the IncentiveOption, ProgramOption, and WebsiteOption to automatically populate to Hide.
If the user selects Product Type=ProductB, I would like the IncentiveOption, ProgramOption, and Website Option to automatically populate to Show.
I would still like the user to have the ability to change these fields though, regardless of what is entered in the ProductType field.
Is this possible, and if so, can anyone please help me with creating a script that will allow me to do this?
I am way over my head as I have no experience in writing code and have been at this for hours now!
Thanks!
on 25 Sep 2009 at 5:42 am 99.namensschilder said …
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on 25 Sep 2009 at 10:31 pm 100.Modellbau said …
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on 29 Sep 2009 at 1:27 am 101.Kaffeevollautomaten said …
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on 29 Sep 2009 at 12:03 pm 102.LR said …
Very Good, Thx
on 06 Oct 2009 at 4:11 am 103.Reisen said …
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on 14 Oct 2009 at 3:05 am 104.Hd-Camcorder said …
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on 15 Oct 2009 at 1:49 pm 105.Seniorenhandy said …
Great Video Tutorial – Thanks a lot.
I’m really look forward for more Flex Tutorials from you!
on 19 Oct 2009 at 7:55 am 106.Maria said …
I have been reading the above questions and responses and I’m finding that people have my question, but the answers is vague or I’m just a bit slow… I have created a PDF form in LiveCycle. Simple for for a christmas party, stating child name and age who will be attending. I have put a submit via email button at the bottom. The email it will be returning to is a co-woker who has very limited skills when using a computer. I want her to receive the entire form in full – not just the .xml data – otherwise I will have to train her for days on how to read it. I want her to recieve the compelted form so she can print it off and keep a completed hard copy.
I have tested this wil my email and I receive an xml file back. I don’t know how to open it other than double clicking it. which gives me the data but no form.
What do I need to do to the email submit button to ensure my co-worker will recieve the completed PDF file instead of the xml data?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
on 03 Nov 2009 at 3:41 am 107.Konstantin said …
Hi to All. Help me, pls.
I have created a form with LiveCycle Designer ES and need help for submitting it in XML-format file to localhost. (such as C:\Users\Administrator\Documents)
I need to push the button (using Adobe Reader) and XML file should be generated and saved in my directory (or any other place, like ftp://192.168.0.1/AnyDirectory/)
I know, that XML file can be generated when use EmailSubmitButton and there are no any default e-mail client (you have to save xml file for sending it via Internet e-mail client).
How can I save data in XML file???
on 04 Nov 2009 at 3:46 am 108.HD Camcorder said …
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on 08 Dec 2009 at 3:03 am 109.ratgeber said …
Thx for the tuto. Easy to understand, easy to implement. Greetz
on 08 Dec 2009 at 3:17 pm 110.Lisa Nutt said …
Hi – I was wondering if anyone ever found a fix for Submitting the form by email that would allow internet-based email clients (yahoo, hotmail, gmail) to submit the form? Is this possible?
Thank you-
on 11 Dec 2009 at 4:46 am 111.Haarentfernung said …
Thank you for the helpfull informations.
on 16 Dec 2009 at 11:28 am 112.ahmet maranki said …
Thanks, this was very helpful…
on 06 Jan 2010 at 4:27 am 113.Andre said …
HI
I am trying to creating a purchase order form, using data sources from exel?
But im having so much problem to do it.
Does anyone can help me ?
on 06 Jan 2010 at 1:09 pm 114.Stephanie said …
I’ve created a table in LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2. Inside this table, i was to insert a radio button in 4 cells so that they are in an “exclusion group”, but i keep getting the yellow caution sign. Any idea how I can do this? My other option is to use a check box, but i want the functionality of the radio button where the person using the form can only select one option or the other.
Thanks!
on 19 Jan 2010 at 6:35 pm 115.Audrey said …
I am using LiveCycle for the first time and am having difficulties inserting a simple Jpeg. Each time I insert an image it does not show up, instead a broken image symbol shows up. What am I doing wrong?
on 26 Jan 2010 at 3:09 pm 116.Mike G said …
how do I read a form designed in Live Designer and returned filled by a member? when I open the e-mail it is all garbage – not readable where it makes sense as to what choices were selected in the form …
Thank you.
on 30 Jan 2010 at 11:40 am 117.Eheringe said …
easy toread, easy to understand, thx
on 26 Mar 2010 at 7:45 am 118.form guy said …
Audrey,
The jaggies usually occur when the image is not embedded. Look in the object tab and click “embed image data”.
Howard
on 26 Mar 2010 at 8:10 am 119.form guy said …
Jennifer,
Using Drop-down fields to control other fields is possible and powerful for influencing or controlling input. It is also possible to allow users to enter their own information.
I do this for customers but must warn you that the code can be confusing. The trick is learning how to know what was selected.
1. create a field named dropdown_temp
2. Put the “dropdown_temp.rawValue = xfa.event.newText;” in the change event of the dropdown.
3. use “commit on” control to pick “select”
4. continue your code referencing the dropdown_temp.rawValue
5. when you’re done make the dropdown_temp field invisible.
There are more elegant ways to do this but this is the basic method.
The code must be in the change event. Click won’t work. To allow custom entry, select “allow custom text entry” in the Object/field controls for the drop-down.
I almost forgot. You need code to change the child drop-down.
custDL.clearItems(); //clears the list
custDL.addItem(“item to put in dropdown”); //adds text between “” into the dropdown list.
These lines will affect a dropdown named “custDL”
If this is too confusing or isn’t enough detail, I also give training.
Howard
on 26 Mar 2010 at 8:20 am 120.form guy said …
To email the entire pdf you need to create a custom button.
Put this in the click event
var mail;
var address = “person@gmail.com”;
var sub = “Application Form”;
mail = “mailto: ” + address + “?subject=” + sub;
event.target.submitForm({
cURL: mail,
bEmpty: true,
cSubmitAs: “PDF”,
cCharset: “utf-8″
});
You must also enable reader extensions to make the form savable. Otherwise the recipient gets an empty form.
This uses “mailto:” so it only works if the user has a desktop client such as Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. I usually add a non-printing text field telling webmail users to save and attach the saved file to their email.
If this forum deletes the code I inserted, click my name to get to my website & email address.
Howard
on 13 Apr 2010 at 5:13 am 121.LR said …
Thanks for this Flash Tool…
on 11 May 2010 at 8:52 am 122.Natalie said …
Hi Zee!
I am currently trying to create a scholarship for my company with Adobe LiveCycle Designer. (I have the 8.2 version) I created fields for the form, but I would like to write up a text to describe the scholarship. The text surpasses one page and I don’t know how to make it flow from one page to another. I was wondering if you could give me a few pointers. I could also send you the file if you would like to see.
Thank you!
Natalie
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on 16 Jul 2010 at 3:00 am 125.Tagesgeldkonten said …
we are using live cycle with remedy, nice tool for ticketdocumentatioon
thanks
on 19 Jul 2010 at 8:30 pm 126.2zinsvergleiche said …
I always have trouble with these click events.
on 25 Jul 2010 at 4:54 pm 127.Mary said …
I need help please. I have researched high and log and am following all the info given and I still cannot fill in the form fields in reader.
I have Acrobat and created a form in 8.1 which utilized live cycle. The form is beautiful, has everything that I want and is exactly perfect. But …. the rest of my team has reader and needs to be able to complete the form.
I have enabled the reader rights, and done every trick that I can find. They do not see the info as a document not a form. They cannot click on any field or enter any data. Please help. This was supposed to be a quick project and my timeline has passed.
Thank you.
Mary
on 26 Jul 2010 at 4:53 am 128.kavitasyon said …
good article, thanks a lot admin
on 27 Jul 2010 at 2:28 pm 129.Kendra said …
1. Is there a way to add a Numeric field that will auto populate a consecutive number each time the form is open – like the date auto populates?
2. Is there a way to change the format of the xml output to not show all the code and/or reduce the file size?
Any assistance would be appreciated.