and you can access the attachment with scripts. e. g. you can attach
your current vendor list with Acrobat. Then you can add the vendor's
address via scripting even when your data source only provides the
vendor number.
That appears unnecessary to me.Conditional bindings without any
scripting perfectly perform the task. You do not need to script for this
kind of task.I just checked with one of my example
forms:$.Legobrick.[Color<>"green"]works perfectly to bind only subforms
where the underlying element "Color" does not have the value "green".
I'm afraid no.Acrobat is a completly different ballpark. You have
different classes and objects there and actually not really events. In
case you have a ton of scripting in your XDP you can only hope for
Surface tablets or else spend an awful lot of time trying to come close
to the old functionality
I prefer saving the XFA-PDF in Acrobat as PostScript (.ps). Then I
create in Acrobat a new Acro-PDF with the PostScript. Has always worked
fine. Of course all form fields and scripting is lost. You have to add
that all over again with Acrobat. The form layout will change with every
change request. Then you change the XDP and produce with the PostScript
detour a new Acro-PDF. The good thing is that you can swap individual
PDF pages with Acrobat. So fortunately your form fields and scripting
are n...
We would like to print lables with curved text. Apparently there is no
curved text in LiveCycle Designer. Are there any add-ons that would
produce curved text in XDPs? I would suppose that add-on (if it existed)
would produce graphics.
The equals operator in JavaScript is "==" and not "=".You actually
assigned "X" to lv_letter.So your line should beif ( lv_letter == "X" )
{Does it work now?
In a click event I got this code (stripped down to the basics):var i =
0;var x = 0;var y = 0;var arrayAnswers = new Array;for (i= 0; i <
tableSource._row.count; i++) { for (x=0; x < arrayAnswers.length; x++) {
y++; }}That works fine with most Adobe Readers.But the customer has a
version that always returns the (German) error message;Acrobat – Version
mit integrierten EScript-Funktionen 11.0 Acrobat SOAP 11.0 GeneralError:
Vorgang
fehlgeschlagen.XFAObject.x:2:XFA:Formular1[0]:Seite1[0]:Übertrag[0...
Are you sure this JavaScript?A line like (oField.rawValue == 1 |
oField.rawValue == 01) = "1st";looks to me like a part of an if
statement and a part of a variable assignment.Maybe you want to reformat
your code in a standard way and re-post it completly?
I can confirm that "Weitere Werkzeuge aktivieren (mit Ausfüllen und
Speichern von Formularen)" the same menu item is as "Enable More Tools
(includes form fill-in & save)".(Actually I use the German version
myself and it works with my Acrobat.)But I have no explanation why that
doesn't work with your XFA-PDF.You might want to check whether there is
any scripting code that resets the form upon opening.
Deborah,I almost never use Formcalc. It lacks some features - and you
find sample scripts almost only for JavaScript.In my next book („XML und
Scripting – SAP Interactive Forms und Adobe LiveCycle Designer",
espresso Verlag) you can find this funktion (here is a sneak preview).
Hope it helps:function copyTable(oMasterTable, bIgnoreBindingName ) { //
Purpose: // In case there are duplicates of the table oMasterTable in
the form // then this function copies oMasterTable to these duplicates.
// The...
"the XML wears out with use". LiveCycle runs down the XML and fills the
data into matching fields with the correct binding. But LiveCycle never
runs back upwards in the XML to start filling other objects with
matching bindings.You can use global binding by name (not recommendable
as unsafe - you never know whether a field with the same name will be
added in 4 years).Or you script: You copy the data manually from one
subform to the next.
What you got is a floating text field within a text box. This floating
text field has been changed to a signature field later on in the object
tablet.This way the signature box will float with the text in the box.
(Assuming you set the text box to be expandable.)Be aware: text boxes
are for static text (although it might be possible to change the text
dynamically later on).If you plan to change the text in the text box at
runtime, then you should switch to text-fields.If you plan to insert a
pas...
It depends on the required degree of confidentiality:It is possible to
add a password with Acrobat to prevent unauthorized persons to open the
PDF in Designer. But there are tools to open this PDF anyways. Regular
users will not be able to read your scripting - others can.Of course you
can ask for passwords and set subforms "hidden" oder "visible" depending
on the password.sPassword = xfa.host.response("What's your password?",
"Password", "", true);switch(sPassword) { case "CEO": this.presence =...
It is simply either / or in Acrobat: Either you chose the saving-form
data-permission or you chose the annotate-permission. They do not allow
you to have both - unless you reader extensions. (Annotations would be
impossible in dynamic forms anyways. I suspect your form being dynamic,
as it contains an expandable field.)
Without scripting it is (almost) impossible to fill two tables with the
same XML data: You can bind your data "by name" (which you usually
avoid, as it is unsafe in the longrun). You can duplicate your data in
your XML. Or you can duplicate your XML data with XSLT. Or you script:
Basically for every row being added during the XML import in the first
table you add a row in the second table and copy your data there.
I just came across an issue with checkboxes in interactive dynamic
forms:Some checkboxes had a binding by name (i. e. no provision for any
binding in the XML).[Actually by mistake as I have no data connection
for this form anyways. But those needless bindings should not hurt.]Many
checkboxes had the same name. (Table rows with true/false-checkboxes.)In
the post-save event those checkboxes still had their values.But after
saving the PDF and reopening it, those checkboxes had lost their values.
Th...
John Brinkman's blog is not available any more. "John Brinkman" is
unknown to Adobe.Does anyone know how to determine a content area's
height?And: How do I find out which content area a particular subform is
placed on (I suppose that this information is only available after
layout ....). I am looking for a function
getContentAreaOfSubform(this);[Background: I would like to calculate in
a conditional break how many more rows are to come. Conditional breaks
are executed before the layout-ready. Th...
I am afraid that won't help.I do not plan to pop up message boxes.The
code I wrote in my question is actually stripped down to the minimum to
visualize the problem:Accessing a subform containing a signature field
throws an error message.That might be an issue of LiveCycle - or has
some other reason. I was hoping someone else has come across this
behaviour as well and can explain it. The best thing would be of course
if someone knew a way of accessing such a subform without provoking an
error mes...
Not if you have bought the designer.The designer used to be installed
together with Acrobat. Certainly since Acrobat XI you have to buy it
separatly - unless you licensed the LiveCycle-Server / AEM-Forms-Server.
Then you have the designer included. Or if you use SAP - there you can
also have a designer.
I got LC-Designer ES4 Vers. 11. In Acrobat XI (and possibly all other
viewers) I have this problem:Whenever I access a subform containing a
signature field (for example like this):var oBlockSignatureEKB =
xfa.resolveNode("Exportcontrol.blockWithSignatures.blockSignatureEKB");console.println("setVisibilityOfSignatureEKB:
[" + oBlockSignatureEKB.name + "]");then I get in JavaScript-Debugger
this error messageevent.target.hostContainer is undefined126:1TypeError:
event.target.hostContainer is undef...
I have the identical code (see below) in the click-event of two buttons:
one on the master page, the other on the text page.The code on the text
page works fine.The code on the master page produces a "Form1 is
undefined" error. The cause for the trouble is clearly the submitForm()
- without it the presence change works perfectly.It appears that the
submitForm() triggered from master page events destroys the internal
object structure - the whole form is not found any more by the code.Do
you have ...
In a click event change the visibility of a subform on a masterpage.Code
looks like this:const sMasterpage = "openimmo.#pageSet.Seite1"; // find
all incarnations of this master-page type: var arrayMasterpages =
xfa.resolveNodes(sMasterpage + "[*]"); for (var i = 0; i <
arrayMasterpages.length; i += 1) {
arrayMasterpages.item(i).resolveNode("gruen").presence = "visible"; } //
for ixfa.host.messageBox("test");The strange thing is: Up to the
messageBox the subform is visible. But as soon as the cli...
Managing data from a DB is a completly different ballbark. With a DB you
cannot fill your table directly. You rather have to query your data and
then loop over the results inserting them row by row. Am I right?So
unfortunately your hint would lead to a different direction. My data
source is XML.(Excel I have never tried. From what I hear you'd have to
find a Microsoft-ODBC-driver for Excel. Sounds to me that the rest would
be the same as with a DB.)I just finished some experiments with
input-XSL...
I tried to isolate the problem and wrote a litte form consting only of
the table and the buttons.There I can export new rows.One difference to
the original form is: In the little form I do not use a XSL to transform
the input data.I also removed the XML file from the preview in the
original form: same problem, new rows not exported.I will try a few
things with an XSL for the output data. Maybe that will give a clue.
