Hi Laura,When you put a field (object) in a form, there are a number of "events" that you have access to. If you click the "Show" drop-down list in the top left corner of your screen, you will see a list of these events. One of the events is "validate." That's where you would write your code (FormCa...

Thank you Ocen12...you reply reminded me where these events are located.The DocReady event is what I was looking for. It's the first event that is executed.Thank you.

Thanks Paul,This is the way I need to go here. However, this is proving more difficult that it first looks.I created a variable called JustOpened and set the initial value to "yes"In my validate routine, I set JustOpened to "no" and then call my function. This does not work because, as you indicate,...

I saw this somewhere...but the brain is drying up!When you create a form with LCD and someone opens that form with the Acrobat Reader, a function is automatically executed. What is the name of that function and how do I get access to it?Conversely, is there a function that run when the user closes a...

Thank you the feedback. My problem here was that when I created my objects, I used dashes in the names, as in "My-First-TextField" and this caused all kinds of problems -- problems that you don't want to wrestle with when you are learning something new!Since renaming all my objects, most of these pr...

I'm using LiveCycle Designer 8.xIs there a way to tell if an external file exists in LCD?More specifically, if a file exists in the same folder as the form, I want to execute certain javascript code, otherwise not.Thank you for suggestions....

Getting close....Because I'm a newbie, I'm not sure how to change the value of a different field and I will need this for your suggestion to work.To make it simply, assume that I have two fields MyFirst and MySecond.Assume that I'm on the first field (MyFirst). What would I put in the calculate even...

Thank you for the feedback.I did move the code to the exit event, but from an end-user perspective, I found this a bit confusion. For example, I have the imagefield (photo) and a text field (title),If the user adds an image that is too big and I put the code in the exit event (nothing happens), then...

Thank you for your question.It's in the validation event

I'm using LiveCycle Designer 8.I have an Image field in a form with a validation java script that checks the size of the image that the user is adding. If the image is over 1MB, I issue a warning, but leave the image. There is no problem there.However, after the file is saved and upon opening the PD...