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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: Split/combine large LiveCycle form - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi Bibhu -Both of those suggestions are very helpful and make sense right on the face of it. I'll give it a try - thank you!

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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: Email XML for only a certain number of pages - Adobe LiveCycle

If you only have the one field, you can create a regular button that stores the password in a temporary variable, clears the field, emails it, then puts the password back into the field. Here's an example:var mypassword = PasswordField.rawValue;//store the password field value in a variablePasswordField.rawValue = "";//clear the field and the resultant xmlevent.target.submitForm({cURL:"mailto:me@me.com",cSubmitAs:"XML"});//mail the form with attached xmlPasswordField.rawValue = mypassword;//brin...

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Re: Multiple repeating SubForms binding to the same data node - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi Jorge,I'm not sure what you mean by work independently from each other when it comes to "binding", Do you want the details to auto-populate or are you looking for a button to optionally populate the form.Bruce

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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: LC Script Editor - connot view the scripts - Adobe LiveCycle

found the code in XML ...my javascript code...

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Re: Create many entries "automatically" for List Box - Adobe LiveCycle

Sorry about that...The only other way I know of is to edit the xml directly. Add a list box or drop down list to your form. Select the field, then click the XML Source tab (next to master pages tab. If it's not there, right click to the right of the preview tab in the gray area and check off XML Source).Where it says you can manually add in items in the following format: Option 1 Option 2you can paste all of your list items into column A in an excel sheet, then put the following formula into B1...

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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: How do I use a radio button to enable a image - Adobe LiveCycle

Scott,Thanks again for your help. I checked that the variable value is hidden and I removed one of the check boxes and used the original change event you provided and I still can't get it to work. The background image still shows up no matter what. Do you think I should try using the radio button list? I don't really need to and it seems unnecessarily complicated to use that instead of one check box. Any ideas on how I should proceed from here?Thanks again,Saskia

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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: Distribute fillable pdf without Submit Button - Adobe LiveCycle

Keep in mind that Reader Extending a document comes with restrictions via the terms of service. You can only Reader Extend a document that will be filled in by no more than 500 distinct users OR where the data will not be collected/used from more than 500 filled in instances of the form..- Scott

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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: Create Livecycle form that can not be overwritten - (template) - Adobe LiveCycle

I will work on that suggestion, thanks!-Don

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Re: Copy table from Excel - Adobe LiveCycle

I'm not aware of any way to directly copy multiple excels cells into multiple form fields, wihtout doing each cell individually. There is a bit of a waorkaround that you can use, though... you can create an excel workbook which binds itself to an xml data source whose schema matches that of your form. This can be a bit time consuming, especially when you bring repeatable subforms into play, but when done correctly, you can fill the data in the excel document, output it to an xml file then bind t...

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: Coordinate Text Box Size - Adobe LiveCycle

That's probably a sound solution, but let me throw a wrench in there: I have a really large form that uses positioned cells. Is there any way to automate the conversion of groups of cells to a table, such that I don't have to build the whole thing from scratch (which would take hours and hours and hours)?I should mention that the form is derived from a microsoft word document, which did use tables, but I'd rather not go through the importation process again if I can help it.Thanks for the help

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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