An example illustrating my problem is attached.
The problem:
I have a positioned subform, page breaks allowed.
On the right this (main)subform contains an expandable (notes) text input object, page breaks allowed.
On the left, it contains a flowable subform, page breaks allowed. This subform contains a (step) subform with an expandable text input object, page breaks allowed. The user can create copies of the step subform.
If the user enters enough text in the notes field to force a page break, things work fine. Part of the text is on one page, and the remainder is on the following page, in the correct horizontal position (under the text of the preceeding page).
However, if the user either creates enough copies of the step subform to force a page break, or fills one of the step fields enough to force a page break, ALL steps, and the right notes field are sent to the top of the next page.
How do I force the break to appropriately divide the content of BOTH the left and right portions of the main subform? That is, to leave the appropriate steps on each page, and the appropriate part of the notes text on each page?
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Unfortunately if you break across a page you cannot go back and change the layout of a previous page. So the columns do not act independantly as you need them to (as they are under the same parent subform).
Paul
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Are the steps and the Notes independant of each other or is it a one to one mapping where for each step there is a corresponding Note?
Paul
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The notes are independent of the steps. That is, there may be many steps, but only one notes field.
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Unfortunately if you break across a page you cannot go back and change the layout of a previous page. So the columns do not act independantly as you need them to (as they are under the same parent subform).
Paul
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Thanks, Paul. At least I can now stop my futile experiments
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John Brinkman just posted an article about displaying parallel columns of text on the FormFeed blog. Don't know if it will help or not!
http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2009/06/displaying_parallel_columns_of.html
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Thank you. I have downloaded the article and will work through it.
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