I am new to using LiveCycle and have some basic questions. Hoping someone can help put me in the right direction. I have created a form, with fillable fields and binding field names. I still need to make the SQL database table, but that is not where I am looking for help. Below are my bulleted questions, as I am not sure how else to list them out.
Some random questions about LiveCycle (not as immediately important, right now)
Thanks!
Update: I found how to set the drop down default value to <NONE> in the value tab of the object pallete, but it still shows the first value. Even if I save it, go to preview, or save it and open in Adobe. Am I missing something in setting that default option to be "empty" until someone chooses a value?
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You should use the field captions. It will make your life easier in the long run. And is more compliant for accessibility, etc.
Fairly easily done, there are lots of examples here in the forums. Combo boxes are called dropdown lists in LC parlance so search on that term.
I think this example does what you're looking for:
http://www.assuredynamics.com/index.php/portfolio/scripting-a-null-display-pattern-for-a-dropdown/
Explore that site for other great coding solutions:
http://www.assuredynamics.com/index.php/code-solutions/
You can use TextField1.rawValue = xfa.datasets.data.saveXML("pretty"); to load the XML into a text field which you can then print out or copy/paste into something else.
I haven't really done any data base/xml work with Designer but the fields don't have to match the fields in your database, you can use an xml schema to assign what goes where with the field binding.
Fragments are used for a couple of things.
Probably! There are lots of great sites and blogs around with samples, etc. Someone is doing video tutorials on youtube.
A great book to get started is Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer by J.P. Terry.
Some links to documenation:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/LiveCycle_Designer_Scripting_Basics.pdf
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/lcdesigner_scripting_reference.pdf
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/xml/picture_clause_2.0.pdf
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tips/CalcScripts.pdf
Some tips of my own:
There's more but that's off the top of my head.
Thank you for that fantastic reply. I still have more questions, but I am now focusing on the application side. My sql database is linked to an Access application, which will have the UI for importing the data people fill out in the pdf forms. My goal is to create a form, where someone can look up a project and then click a button to pick a folder. All the data in the PDFs in that folder will get imported into the table, assigned id tags and show the results to the user.
I definitely plan to check out all of your links as I work to see how to make this form as seemless as possible. The one caveat to having a data connection in the PDF form ( which is why I think that may not be the way for me to go), is because these forms will be filled in offline. A person will have the form, save it over and over as the next one they fill out, and then have a folder of them to email, ftp, or just copy back when they are on our system.
Here's hoping I can make it happen!
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