Problems with Static vs. Dynamic forms

[Former Community Member]

I have found the following out when trying to use required fields as well as a check box that hides or makes visible another page.



The form must be saved as a static form to have the presence attribute work. This allows me to make a page visible or hidden depending on users selections.



The form must be saved as a dynamic form to get adobe to catch non filled out required fields before submition.



The problem is, I need to be able to take advantage of both features. So is there a way with static forms, to make sure certain fields are filled out? Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks

[Former Community Member]

I am interested in this too.

[Former Community Member]

The form does not to be saved as a static form to have the presence attribute work... you can have this.presence = "hidden" etc for dynamic forms.



Make sure the outmost subform is set to flowed, top to bottom.



For the click event of the checkbox, have something like



if(this.rawValue == "1")

{page2.presence = "hidden"}

else {page2.presence = "visible"}



where page2 is the page that you want to hide (remember, any subform that is above this on the hierarchy must be flowed)



hope that makes some sense

[Former Community Member]

At the risk of sounding silly, I thought the presence attribute ONLY works with Dynamic Forms. I would love to use the example above for hiding pages with a static form (as I need users to use sticky notes), but it does not work for me. Am I missing something?

[Former Community Member]

Nope, presence does ONLY work with dynamic forms.

[Former Community Member]

Thanks Sarah, my sanity is still in check!



Can I be cheeky and ask if you know of a way to use Sticky Notes (and other Review and Comment tools) with Dynamic forms?



My dilemma is I am saving a form as Static so that users can use the tools mentioned above, but then I cannot use presence to hide and display sections based on user selections.

[Former Community Member]

No idea, sorry, though your users could attach files to dynamic forms still, but I expect that that is not really what you want.