Hi,This question is way above my skill level (sorry) but if its any help i know that J P Terry's Creating Dynamic Forms with livecycle has examples (including code) for getting info from a wsdl. good luck; i'd be interested to kow who you get on.
Radio buttons seem the best idea - the licensing issue with 500 only kicks in for distribution via adobe's online tools and things like reader extension through that service_ i thinkyou can bulk email as many 1000 forms as you like; and collate on the backend yourselfsome folks use an xml parser of ...
IF your form fillers have acrobat OR the form is going to be reader extended THENyou can go wild with the email buttonsif the above assumptions are validtry something like thisgrab a normal button - not the pre-made email button and pop on it's click event put var mail;var address = email.rawValue; ...
i know the square and circle are a bit ugly - but there is no chance you'll miss themalternatively try adjusting the size a bit under -size you can take a standard checkboxes size from 10 to 12 without increasing its area for example - select the checkbox-objects-field-size - change to 12 eg - adds ...
Livecycle has positoned and flowed subforms - flowing can be a little tricky but might help where something is too long -you put your form together normally - and for the dropdownlist put it (and whatever goes with it) in a subform - and set the subforms properties to auto- fit - thats under layo...
try going to the subforms that are appearing too far down/on new pages -clicking on the subform and checking the pagination is set to followingprevious - this may not be your problem but ive had it do similar things tome when i forgot to do this.if that doesnt work - post you form and ill have a loo...