Lost functionality with Live Cycle Designer?

[Former Community Member]

Using Acrobat Professional 8.0:



I have created a form in Live Cycle Designer and it is 90% done. However, that 10% is preventing me from actually using it.



I cannot figure out how to create links within the form. I can figure this out easy enough on Acrobat Professional. I find it under Tools - Advanced Editing. But LCD does not have this feature mirrored in it's app. I don't understand.

Also, I want the bookmarks to display upon opening the form and I understand how to make this happen in Acrobat Professional - Properties - Initial View. Again, there is no way to do this through LCD.

When I close out of LCD and open the doc in Acrobat Professional and attempt to do this all the previously mentioned functionality is grayed out.

What am I doing wrong?

[_Aandi_Inston_]

It sounds as if you want the sort of things (links, bookmarks) found

in a regular PDF. So just don't go near Designer, make your form in

Acrobat.



Aandi Inston

[Former Community Member]

LC designer does not support links. use flat buttons to simulate a link with code behind the on-click event.

[Former Community Member]

And what would be the code to be used on the Click event for the button?



Thanks,



FayeC

[Former Community Member]

Are you looking to hyperlink to other pages within the form e.g. a contents page, or to hyperlink to websites or other document? Both can be achieved.

To link to another page use xfa.host.setFocus("address"); in the click event of the button. The address will be determined by the hierarchical structure you have given the form, starting with Form1.Page_Name.Textfield(x). If the page you want to jump to doesn't have a textfield, create one anyway but just don't give it a border.

When you click on the jump button, the cursor will jump to this textfield.



For a hyperlink to a website or server held document, again using the click event use:



app.launchURL("fulladdress", true);



Incidentally, before you enable usage rights in Acrobat, you can create bookmarks.