LiveCycle has been replaced by Adobe Experience Manger which can convert
both the PDF and XML (LiveCycle) forms into the newer format. One of the
largest creators of LiveCycle forms, http://www.irs.gov, was still
creating forms in March 2018. I expect that Experience Form Manager is
using HTML5 and directed at enterprise users since it is sold on a
contact basis only.
If using the digitally sign feature of Acrobat/Reader, there is a
special digital certificate that is attached to the PDF that includes a
lot of information as when the PDF form was signed and information to
tell if the form has been changed and the ability to "roll back" the
form to a state prior to the signature being applied.Fill and sign is a
different product for applying a signature to the PDF.Use of the digital
certificate can be used to validate legal or business forms
internationally an...
Do you have any skill in programming JavaScript or other language? Excel
formulas is not coding. To program Excel you need to use VBA.Will your
form be used by Reader?Acrobat does not support dynamic forms. LiveCycle
is much better at performing dynamic form tasks like adding rows to a
table and adjusting for the added content.
I would put the functions at the document level so they would be
available to any form field in the PDF. If one is computing the standard
deviation the average moght also be in another field.
LiveCycle Designer uses the same JavaScript engine that Acrobat and
Reader does when the LiveCycle form is in the PDF format. So as noted in
the Acrobat JavaScript form, the JavaScript engine and capabilities. As
explained in the Acrobat JavaScript forum, the JavaScript used in
Acrobat or Reader is "sandboxed" or very will isolated from your
computer's JavaScript program. This has been done to protect users of
Acrobat or Reader form the possibility of running malicious code.It
might be possible ...
The code for the function "standardDeviation" is placed in a document
level JavaScript object. This is a user written function.The
documentation under Help in LiveCycle has documentation on how to do
this and convert the JavaScript for the field to FormCalc or JavaScript.
There are way to work around some of these issues with more advance
programing.One can place the values to process into an array, use a
filter to remove unwanted items from the array and use a call back
function to sum the array.
You need to use the commands for conditional code execution. You can use
the JavaScript "if" statement or the FormCalc "if" statement. Note that
the syntax for the "if" statement have a different syntax.The "Scripting
Reference" under LiveCycle's Help menu bar item has more information
about the FormCalc statements.Since this is custom scripting you need
establish the link to the field objects and then use the "value"
property to get the user input for the field.
Will you allow your users to save a partially completed form and come
back at a later time?You add alerts or display of warning fields on the
form if the use tries to print the form before it is complete or you do
not allow submission.There are far too many armatures that are out in
the wild creating poorly designed forms.
Carefully think about the user and the experience this is going to be
for the user. You will lock your user into the form form field with no
other action being allowed no matter what. Not a very good idea. You
might consider a warning message and highlighting the field or changing
the text color to highlight the error.If there are a limited number of
countries, you might consider a drop down box with the acceptable
choices.
Click on the field that will be using the leading zeros.Make sure this
field is set to Numeric Field (Object Palette - Field tab - Type:)On the
same Field tab is a button that reads "Patterns..." click on the
arrowClick "Display" and in the "Pattern:" field type "num{99999}" (this
will give you a five digit input (45=00045) adjust the number of 9's
according to your need.Do not include the quotation marks for the text
to enter.
> Wht (sic) is '$record' here?Have a look at Working with Multiple Data
Records by John Brinkman. It is used to process multiple records by an
XFA form.From the Scripting Reference included with LiveCycle
Designer:Represents the current record of a collection of data, such as
from an XML file. For example, $record.header.txtOrderedByCityreferences
the txtOrderedByCity node within the header node of the current XML
data.> 2) in Whit (sic) cases/references i should use 'xfa' as a prefix,
do i need...
You need to use the 'if' statement to see if a date has been entered for
both dates and then perform the calculation or clear the field.var
oneDay = 24*60*60*1000;if(rentalbegin.rawValue != "" &
rentalend.rawValue != "") { var firstDate = new
Date(rentalbegin.rawValue); var secondDate = new
Date(rentalend.rawValue); Math.abs((firstDate.getTime() -
secondDate.getTime())/(oneDay));} else {"";}You might find FormCalc an
easier language to perform this calculation as the 'Date2Num' function
returns ...
Are you creating your form in Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer. A little
hare to tell with all of your posts. For Acrobat forms:You can get a lot
of different information from the date object by changing the format
string for the 'util.printd' method. See the reference George Johnson
links to for the format string values that can change the displayed
value.// get new Date objectvar d = new Date();// format to h:MM ttvar
sDate = util.printd("h:MM tt", d);// insert date into form
fieldthis.getField("...
You are using Acrobat Form Tool code, so unless you are making your form
with Acrobat, I would use the syntax and languages of LiveCycle
Designer.Look in the scripting reference for the 'Sum' function and
examples of how to write equations in LiveCycle Designer. The 'Scripting
Reference' is under LiveCycle Designer's "Help" menu option.
You are not testing your divisor has a value and is not zero// check for
divisor having a value and not zeroif(HasValue(Table1.FooterRow.DTOT)
and Table1.FooterRow.DTOT <> 0) then// perform
divisionTable1.FooterRow.INTOT/ Table1.FooterRow.DTOTelse// display
nothing""endif
LiveCycle Designer and Acrobat AcroForms use two very different
approaches to form design. LiveCycle Designer is the successor to
JetForms that was acquired by Adobe to allow for the use of XML forms.
And there is limited commonality between the 2 products for form design.
Further, users need version 5.01 of Acrobat or Reader to use forms
created by LiveCycle Designer.Forms created in LiveCycle Designer need
to be edited in LiveCycle Designer and forms created in Acrobat should
be edited in Acro...
You have to manually add fields or use "automatic form field
recognition".If you use Open Office Org Writer, you can create the form
in Wirter and add various fields, and then "Export as PDF" and the form
fields and optional values will be present in a PDF form.
Adobe has discouraged having both Reader and Acrobat installed on the
same system because of this problem. Each product want to be the default
appliction for opening a PDF document. You might be able to modify the
preferences in each application and set the option for IE intergration
and primary PDF appliction. You also might have to edit the Registry
entries for these applications, but an update may reset them.
As noted you can use the pre-print and pre-save feature to alert a user
about an incomplete form. You can also have a hidden form field become
visible indicating the form is incomplete or use a watermak.You can not
prevent the print or save action, but can mark the form before printing
or saving.
It is clearly for Acrobat's AcroForms and not LiveCycle Designer forms.
It is a document level user defined JavaScript funciton. You call the
function with the start time and end time fields. The function then uses
the field names to get the field values and convert those strings to the
value of the JavaScript'x date time object. For each date time object a
second user function is called to round the values to the nearest 15
minutes, quarter hour.You do not have the code for the second user
defi...
