Fields in XDP - 6.1 vs 6.5 - floating or not?

[crich2784]

I have a customer form that is being rendered in 6.1 and the fields appears to be behaving like floating fields.  You can see the below picture that the <period> is flush against the word SCRUBBED12.  

The same XDP rendered in 6.5 is as expected - fixed width.

You can see in Designer, it is not a floating field.  It is a Text Field overlaid on to Static Text.

What is unusual is that UNDER the field is the following static text.

I have never seen this.  Is this some notation for floating fields?

Thanks,

Charles

[crich2784]

Ok, I found that this is a legacy/deprecated notation for floating fields - awesome that I know the problem.  Now the problem is that they use the fields in HTML5 to modify the data and floating fields are not interactive in HTML5 - ugh.  Anybody have any ideas for a workaround, that would be great.

[sudhansh · Accepted solution]

Hi @crich2784 ,

Could you confirm is you have enabled mfDataDependentFloatingField on the profile as captured here in scripting section:
https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65/content/forms/html5-forms/faq

Hopefully it should resolve the issue for you.

[crich2784]

Yes, I found that flag and enabled it.  Floating fields are now working.

The real problem is an "interactive" floating field.  In the PDF world, they were able to overlay and interactive field and the "#f1#            #" notation allowed it to be a fixed size during interaction.  When sent for output, the paragraph would flow correctly.  Unfortunately, I can't duplicate this functionality in HTML5 so there will be a compromise with the customer.

[sudhansh]

@crich2784 Interactive floating fields are not supported in HTML5 forms.