Column alignment on page break

[gjohnso]

With help from these forums, I am very close to having a perfect form. It flows, it adds and removes subforms.  Inside the subform there are two text fields that can both grow.  Unfortunately, if the text field on the right gets longer than the one on the left and goes across a page break, the information shifts over to the left side of the page. How can I keep it on the right?

[Raghu_Nagireddy]

Please check the attached updated file.

1. use the subform Flow Direction as Top to Bottom (you used as western txt)

2. Place the growing subform inside of another subform and make the top subform as Flow content and Top to bottom and inside one make as Position Content ( Top one already flow so this also works as flow)

3. Working with growing subforms save the file as Dynamic Pdf.

Hope this will help.

Raghu.

[gjohnso]

It works except for the fact that when the right column expands past the first page, the whoel subform moves to the new page. It isn't that the right column goes to the new page.

>>> Raghu Nagireddy <forums@adobe.com> 12/14/2009 2:56 PM >>>

Please check the attached updated file.

1. use the subform Flow Direction as Top to Bottom (you used as western txt)

2. Place the growing subform inside of another subform and make the top subform as Flow content and Top to bottom and inside one make as Position Content ( Top one already flow so this also works as flow)

3. Working with growing subforms save the file as Dynamic Pdf.

Hope this will help.

Raghu.

[Raghu_Nagireddy]

Here is the use of Top to Bottom and Western Text.

In ur case it requires Top to Bpttom Approach.

Sets a flow direction for flowed objects:

Top to Bottom Lay down the objects one beneath the other.

Western Text Lay down the objects from left to right, and when the objects wrap at the right edge of the subform, continue laying down objects one object down from left to right.

Raghu.

[mouslander]

I have encountered a similar problem in the past. The easiest way I found to solve it was to convert the section to a table. When you do this the fields grow and move the same way. If one field grows the other field will also grow. Both fields will go to the next page the same way as well.

[gjohnso]

Thanks. Rahgu told me to put the subform in another subform and make the outside one flow top to bottom. Then he said to make the inside subform positioned and it works fine. It does something I thought was a bit strange in that the entire subform skips to the next page when the right side gets longer than the current page, but the people I am creating the form for love it so it is definitely good enough.

>>> mouslander <forums@adobe.com> 12/14/2009 4:03 PM >>>

I have encountered a similar problem in the past. The easiest way I found to solve it was to convert the section to a table. When you do this the fields grow and move the same way. If one field grows the other field will also grow. Both fields will go to the next page the same way as well.

[Raghu_Nagireddy · Accepted solution]

how much text you enter the subform breaks correctly, may be somewhere ur missing something. u can check the attached form for the same.

[gjohnso]

You are correct. I must have been missing something. I couldn't see what so I copied your page and subforms and it works great now. Thank you very much for your help.

>>> Raghu Nagireddy <forums@adobe.com> 12/14/2009 4:41 PM >>>

how much text you enter the subform breaks correctly, may be somewhere ur missing something. u can check the attached form for the same.

[gjohnso]

Of course I delivered the form and the person requested "one more thing".  I have added a subform for a step with tasks under that. I can add and remove steps. I can add and remove tasks. Somehow, while I was at it, I lost the expanding fields.  Text longer than the box, isn't pushing the next one down. It just lays over it.  Since this is not column alignment, should I start a new question?