The user I am using is a user that I created from a copy of the default administrator account (I called it wfadmin) that ships with Windows Server 2003. Within workflow, the wfadmin user is both a LiveCycle Workflow Process Developer and a LiveCycle Workflow Process Administrator.
I was given a solution to part of original issue. The following set of instructions are compliments of Carman. Thanks Carman.
1. Log in to
http://localhost:8080/adminui2. Select "Services"
3. Select "Adobe LiveCycle Form Manager"
4. Select "File Access" Notice in the "Access Rights box to the right, there is a "MetadataRead" permission which defaults to "checked" and a "Read" permission which defaults to "not checked"
5. Click on your form in the left "Repository" area
6. Notice that your form does not have a checkmark under Access Rights in the Permissions section for the "Read" attribute. Place a check-mark there, and the problem will go away after you click "Save"
This cured the error that WF Designer throws when adding the init form variable.
Howard: "the old fashioned way" = writing manually pen & paper style as opposed to generating a file.