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AEM Forms Designer PDF Preview not showing data

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August 13, 2024
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I have finally gotten Forms Designer (v6.5) installed on my Windows 10 Enterprise PC at work, have opened an existing PDF, attached an XML source file and mapped the fields, but do no see any of the data mapped to the fields in PDF Preview.

Any documentation I've been able to find leaves much to be desired. I can't find an internal contact and I'm not getting any response from our Adobe rep so I'm turning to the community in hopes that someone can point me in the right direction: requirements (do I need Acrobat Pro or some extension to make this work with Forms Designer)? Is there something I need to do with the PDF prior to attaching the XML source?

Thanks in advance.

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Vijay_Katoch

Community Advisor

Go through this, its very simple

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/10.0/DesignerHelp/WS107c29ade9134a2c136ae6f212a1f379c94-8000.html

GregOMESAuthor

Level 2

Thank you! I am now seeing data for one form.

My next question would be: if my `xml` data has say 300 row elements (separate forms), what's the procedure for outputting all of those individual forms?

Vijay_Katoch

Community Advisor

I'm not sure I'm following re: `flowed container`. Each of the 999 <row> elements have the same elements within.

Because this was originally set up to collect groups of 999 "people" per xml file - looping through the 100K+ records, I continued with that same design idea, but looking at it for a while has made me rethink things.

Rather than breaking them up, collect all 100K+ rows (which come out of the Oracle query as xml), then looping through them one at a time, creating the PDF from the XDP file and saving them individually as unique PDFs.

Still waiting on some clarification on the directives though.

Saving each individual pdf per record in the xml data is possible through AEM forms output service, you will not achieve this with AEM designer.