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Re: How do I get the selected value of a drop down whose items are generated at runtime? - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi Scott,I don't know what could be causing the problem, I have not had any problems referencing values from a programmatically loaded drop down list. Can you share your form? (host it somewhere, like google docs, and add a link to it in this thread)RegardsBruce

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Re: Form keeps getting corrupted - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi Scott,I am also facing similar issue. Sometimes the createt PDF is corrupted and could not be opened.In my case, I have reached to a conclusion that whenever the size of generated PDF exceeds 4 MB , it gets corrupted. For the same data if I remove or replace some images so that the size is below 4 MB then it works fine.I have contacted Adobe support few days back, but still not able to resolve the issue.Can you please check if the issue you are facing is also related to size of PDF?-Swati

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Re: Help with script - Adobe LiveCycle

You start with the wrong code in line 7 with the second else if statementWith this line EVERY else if statment and the curly brackets are wrong. You have some curly brackets too much.Wrong:else{if (form1.Total_Assessment_Sub.Total_Performance.rawValue >=3.5&&Total_Behaviours.rawValue<4.5){form1.Total_Assessment_Sub.AssessmentValueTotal.rawValue="EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS";}Right:else if (form1.Total_Assessment_Sub.Total_Performance.rawValue >=3.5&&Total_Behaviours.rawValue<4.5){ form1.Total_Assessmen...

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Re: How do I set focus after initialization? - Adobe LiveCycle

Hey again, glad you worked it out.Just for clarification, a literal string is anything between quotes. Literal strings are just plain text. Including the name of the variable in the string does not actually cause a reference to the value to exist. The compiler just sees text, and doesn't know which (if any) parts of the text you intended to reference a variable.So when you wrote:xfa.host.setFocus("xfa[0].form[0].form1[0].#subform[0].Subform2[0].Table1[0].Row1[rowNum].TextField1[0]");if was almos...

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Re: Expandable text field not breaking across multiple pages - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi radzmar,I checked the parent subform, which was fine, but I had accidentally left one of the grandparents as positioned. Fixed it and it's working great now. Thanks for the quick response... I've been getting a headache over this for the better part of a day.- Scott

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Re: Collecting data in an Excel spreadsheet - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi there,I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (19.010.20069) and I don't see any setting in the properties window for data binding.I run into an issue where my schema is not binding to the Excel file and I can't import new form data.Whenever I open an Excel spreadsheet, I open the Source tab and add a new map from the XML file of a filled-in Adobe form; I am able to see the schema in the Source map panel and save.Then, I fill in new data into my Adobe form, save as xml and try to import that data int...

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Re: How do I use javascript or formcalc to reference child controls (not by name) - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi Scott,The subform has a nodes collection you can loop though, as you suspected. If might show up more than you want but you can test the className to see if it is a field and then ui.oneOfChild.className to work out what type of field. So;for (var i = 0; i < Subform1.nodes.length; i++){ var n = Subform1.nodes.item(i); console.println(n.className + " " + n.name + " " + n.ui.oneOfChild.className);}Hope this helps.Bruce

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Re: Any way to outright exclude a control from the tab order? (besides xfa.host.setFocus) - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi,In addition we have an example form here: http://assure.ly/gBUUXB, which highlight Howard's point about the automatic tabbing order being set by the relative x/y coordinates of objects (working from the top/left) and that once an object in a subform has focus, tabbing will work through the remaining objects in the subform before coming back out to the rest of the form. Niall

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Re: Linking to help documents on a common drive - Adobe LiveCycle

If you're going to a website you can also use app.launchURL() (it doesn't support files though).Not sure if one's better than the other.

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Re: Is it possible for fragments to contain variable content? - Adobe LiveCycle

Well, as I was writing the above question, I had an idea as to how I mihgt be able to acheive this... I tried it and it worked.In my master page, I he turned my entier header into a fragment. In the header is an empty text field that I have formatted to look as I want the title text to appear. Also in my master page is a "FormOptions" subform with text fields for each 'variable' such as title.In the Title text field in the fragment, in the initialize code I've used:this.rawValue = FormSettings.T...

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Re: Form doesn't play nicely with Acrobat 8 Pro - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi,Keep in mind, you only need Reader to use the forms (unless you're doing somthing beyond filling-in form fields). Encouraging Reader (vs Pro) lets the user have the full benefit of all form handling updates--and other compatibility issues like IE9. I've have seen what I believe may be a bug that went away when the client upgraded from Reader 9 to Reader 10. It had to do with repeating table cells all named "Cell" . For one user, their Reader 9 choked, reporting that it couldn't find Row[i]Cel...

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Re: I'm wondering if it is possible to design a form that will read flashcards in xml format? - Adobe LiveCycle

I'm glad to hear that it's working for you. Good luck with the studying.- Scott

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Re: SubForm with data binding that repeats - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi Scott,This is exactly what I want my Form looks something like below, the French subform is an exact duplicate of the english subform. The ItemBody subform is the repeating subform it works Ok in the first page but in the second page cannot see the items.My XML is something like below 1 1 2 2 The Binding I have in the first occurence of Subform ItemBody is InvoiceDetail.ListOfInvoiceItemDetail.InvoiceItemDetail[*] which works perfectly fine. But when trying to initialise the ...

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Re: Have to click on the button twice to execute code on Click event. - Adobe LiveCycle

Past-tens,Once again you made my day .Thank you.I've missed to put if (xfa.event.commitKey == 3) then on the button that was next in the tabbbing order.Once I put the code, it fixed the issue and it is working as expected. I actually had xfa.host.setFocus(Button3), but that wasn't enough.You explained it very well. Thank you so much!

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Re: Showing and hiding multiple tables with a drop down list - Adobe LiveCycle

I know no one has replied to this in a while but I was trying to teach myself how to control hidden tables in my PDF using drop down selections. I used the above code to mock-up a simple form and have it working but when you open the PDF I get a validation error message when you make your selection in the drop-down menu:The value you entered for Drop-down List is invalid.If you click OK it still unhides the table you selected in drop down. How do you edit the following to stop the error messages...

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Re: Why doesn't the space bar "click" the button when tabbing through the form? - Adobe LiveCycle

Wouldn't removing the buttons from the tab order affect accessibility with regards to screen readers and that sort of thing?I'm curious as I've recently been instructed to learn all about forms accessibility lately.

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Re: xfa.host.SetFocus question. - Adobe LiveCycle

No worries, this forum has helped me out a number of times, and I like to show my appreciation by helping others when I can.As for the commitKey code not working, I've seen this happen when it's used with javascript instead of formcalc. It's not a huge issue, and converting your validation from javascript to formcalc may not be worth the trouble you would have doing so. For other fields, though, you could try putting the following code in formcalc instead of using javascript, just to see if usin...

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Re: Data Binding for Idiots (me) - Adobe LiveCycle

Scott,1) No date binding means a form object is not included in exported XML. Data binding has no effect upon saving data when saving a form, the form will contain the data.2) For me, rule #1 is use a schema and schema binding. It is worth the upfront investment in time. What you see in the schema is what you see in the output data, given a form object is bound to the schema. You can bind a single schema element to multiple form objects if you need to re-use data across sub-forms, also. Rule #2,...

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Re: How do I lock PDF before e-mailing so that it cannot be altered by the recipient? - Adobe LiveCycle

This is the system that I use and it workes perfectly:/** * Loop through all elements of eForm, except button named "view", and set the access to "protected" */function LockForm() { // Get the field containers from each page. for (var nPageCount = 0; nPageCount < xfa.layout.pageCount(); nPageCount++) { var oFields = xfa.layout.pageContent(nPageCount, "field"); var nNodesLength = oFields.length; // Set the field property. for (var nNodeCount = 0; nNodeCount < nNodesLength; nNodeCount++) { if (!(o...

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Re: Hidden field prepopulated from DB. - Adobe LiveCycle

I really appreciate your help. That worked perfectly.

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Re: Saving .PDF with Repeatable Subforms Adds a New Instance. - Adobe LiveCycle

I've spent HOURS+++ trying to find a solution only to discover that the field names within a repeating subform must be unique. Case in point, when I had a subform containing 3 fields: TextField1[0], TextField1[1], TextField1[2], I ran into an issue where a new instance of the subform was created each time the form was opened and saved. VERY AGGRAVATING! However, by changing the names of each field within the subform, the issue was resolved!NOTE: Considering, I needed to use that same subform in ...

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Re: Optionally print a page - Adobe LiveCycle

That worked. It's doing exactly what I needed. Thanks,MDawn

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Re: Emptied fields reappear after save. - Adobe LiveCycle

Alright, I've done some extensive testing, and I've found out the precise cause of this behavior. It doesn't occur on all fields, just the ones that are set to accept rich text.I've taken a peek at the XML behind the fields as their values are edited. All text fields start with just the following:once the value has been edited then cleared, the XML becomes: I think that this left over artifact causes livecycle to revert to some internally sotred exData value, and that the only way to overwrite i...

Re: Using radio buttons to set the value of a text field - Adobe LiveCycle

The information for this specific case isn't anywhere. The best that you can do is understand what triggers each of the events, then ask yourself which of those triggers are pertinent to your current issue.http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/es/LiveCycle_Designer_Scripting_Basics.pdf ...The above link contains a great deal of information regarding how to use scripts within Livecycle Designer. The section that you would be most interested in in order to learn about the available events can be f...

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Re: Text Field - Get selected text - Adobe LiveCycle

Hello again,I knew that it would be difficult when I started this project, but I like to think that nothing is impossible. I already have a working knowledge of how to dynamically format text, thanks to a tutorial that provided an 'envelope' for formatted text. I'm able to have a button called bold, and a textbox where the user enters the start/stop indexes. I have that test form working, I just want to be able to get the indexes from the highlighted text.I think that I have a workable idea. I'm...

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Print button issues. - Adobe LiveCycle

Hello everyone,In order to 'flatten' our pdf forms so that they cannot easily be modified, we have decided to print all of our completed forms to a virtual .pdf writer. Now, we could have all of our users click file-->print-->select 'cutePDF Writer' from the printer drop-down-->hit OK-->Type in a file name for the new .PDF-->hit OK... but I was hoping that I could make their lives easier by adding a button to do most of this for them.After scowering the depths of the internet, I found this scrip...

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Re: Dynamically set image path - Adobe LiveCycle

Hello Scott,I am using Images in my form too., But we dont store the path of the image in our database. We store the image itself as a blob in the database table datatype varbinary(max). We are using SQlServer 2008. So binding the Image field to the blob object displays it perfectly, no extra conversion is required.Is that an option for you ?regardsNanda

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Re: Help with inserting pages into a PDF form - Adobe LiveCycle

Thanks to you both! That helped quite a bit.I printed the form to a PDF file in Adobe Acrobat, and it was then able to be modifed and have pages inserted.Thanks so much for the rapid reponses!Becky

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Convert Dynamic Form to HTML - Adobe LiveCycle

Hello all,I recently came a cross a situation where one of our forms needs to be converted into html before it is sent to the recipient. I've tried to do so in acrobat using:1) File -> Export -> [HTML -> HTML 3.2 / HTML -> HTML 4.01 with CSS 1.0 / Microsoft Word Document / Rich Text Format]2) File -> Save As -> [HTML 3.2 / HTML 4.01 with CSS 1.0 / Microsoft Word Document / Rich Text Format]Converting or saving to the HTML creates an html document with the header and metadata, but no body content...

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Re: Erratic presence behavour. - Adobe LiveCycle

Thanks for the reply,I have been setting it to hidden, but for some reason, 'Hidden' behaves like 'Invisibile', in that it keeps the whitespace.I have the solution, though... I found that if I enter more text than the textbax can initially display, it repositions itself properly when it expands to fit the content. This led me to believe that it was just a rendering bug. The fix was to include an 'xfa.layout.relayout();' after I hide/display the textbox.Thanks for your time, though.- Scott

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