Thanks guys for your responses - I solved this by forcing the mandatory state each time the visibilty is changed. Not the most elegant but effective.@Magus - your script looks the business however a little to complex for me to slot into my form - I wil use it in future forms though - thxThanksE

Making a field mandatory only when visible? ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiI want to make fileds only mandatory when they are visibleI thought this code would work but it doesnt seem to do anything?Here is my code currently - any ideas guys?if (form1.Page1.DropDownList1.presence == "visible") {form1.Page1.DropDownList1.mandatory = "error";}if (form1.Page1.DropDownList1.presence == "hidden") {form1.Page1.DropDownList1.mandatory = "disabled";}Thanks in annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnticipation! Ellis

Reader Extended EULA... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi AllI understand there is a limit of 500 responses for a reader extended fillable form? Does anyone know how this is 'policed' - ie is there a counter somehow embedded in the form which automatically disabled it or is it (more likely ) governed by the usual Adobe right to audit a company etc?ThanksEllis

inject data and create new copy of dynamic pdf form... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi AllI'm after some advice...I have a dynamic form created with LiveCycle ES2. I also have a list of suppliers in excel. I need to 'merge' these documents almost like a 'mail merge' type function where each suppliers name and address is injected into the form and a new 'supplier specific' version of the form saved (with the supplier name in the title if poss)I thought AutoMailMerge plugin could do the job but it does not work with dynamic forms Any suggestions as to how to achieve this folks?Th...

Re: acrobat is unable to distribute this form?? ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

**BUMP**I am still having this problem - has anyone seen anything similar? Any suggestions as to where to begin to fix?ThanksEllis

Re: Form / Field Validation on a button...? ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi – many thanks ☺

Form / Field Validation on a button...? ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiI have a form where I want to replace the Submit Button with a regular button to take better control of the created email title and body etc. I think I can achieve this using knowledge from previous threads on here however I am struggling to find the code to make my validation work.Is there a JS command to invoke the form based validation and check for null on all the fields I have set to 'User Required'?ThanksEllis

Re: Help with this code please... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Works like a charm - thanks Bruce

Re: Help with this code please... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi BruceMany thanks for the code - it's almost there. The only issue is that it seems to check for duplicates of the first row's value only. So it works great looking for duplicates of the first row however allows duplicated rows of any other value - as per the image here where 'Workforce B' is repeated:I have uploaded the section of the form below as I imagine solving referencing issues is tricky without seeing the form layout - any further help much appreciated.Thanks again mateEDropbox - PREL...

Help with this code please... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi AllI have a repeating row in a table (+\- button on each row to add / delete). On each row the user selects a value from a drop down (the dropdown list is populated from a JavaScript object literal if that makes any odds)What I need to do is to check for duplicate drop down selections on different rows and warn the user they have selected a value twice.I currently have this code in the change event of the dropdown which works great but for the first row only - how do I tweak it to work for ev...

Re: Autopopulate multiple fields from drop-down list ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Good on yer Bruce ! The form was all I hoped it was - perfect thanks!You just made my life a lot easier - cheers !E

Re: Opening an external file containing javascript code ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi RadzmarI am very interested in the solution you directed jcarlosd to at http://thelivecycle.blogspot.de/2011/01/populate-data-from-attachment.htmlhowever I am unable to download the example pdf ( I assume it has expired after so long?)Do you still have it ? Would it be possible to re upload it please?Many ThanksEllis

Re: Autopopulate multiple fields from drop-down list ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi BruceI am tring to get my head around arrays and am looking for example forms / JS that I can decipher and reuse (basically steal! ) My task is to build a form that is 'preloaded' with information (possibly an array?) - an initial dropdown is prepopulated with the values from the first 'column' of the array . Once a user selects a value (Eg 'Surry Hills') the cooresponding information is then sent to various text boxes (Eg '415 Bourke Street' , 'PO Box 2' etc). (The array would normally have ...

Re: Advice on type of 'data connection' please... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Thanks BruceThe webserver solution looks ideal - nice and simple - do you know if this will require Acrobat or will users with Reader be able to connect? I thought I'd read that Reader would not allow external connections? If my helpful IT department hadn't removed Reader when they installed Acrobat on my laptop I'd be able to check! Thanks againE

Re: Advice on type of 'data connection' please... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Many thanks Bruce - I'll take a look Any other options welcome everyone!CheersEllis

Advice on type of 'data connection' please... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiI need a form to populate dropdown selections upon form initialisation and then pull additional data accross to the form from a simple table located 'somewhere'. The data is fairly simple and there is no requirement to 'write' to the table or database from the form. The diagram below attempts to describe what I need to do.My question is this - what are my options for the source of the data? It will be relatively small amounts of data <2000 lines and could be 'embedded' into the form if require...

Re: General Advice re Database connections ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Bump Anyone?ThanksEllis

General Advice re Database connections ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiI am looking at converting an existing form from its current configuration where all data is user entered, to a configuration where the form pulls data from a database stored on a network share.My question is what versions of Acrobat / Reader / Livecycle are required to achieve this. I have looked at the diagram below that exaplins a lot but I want to check my understandingThe above suggests that to use a database connection I would need to 'Reader Enable' my form using Livecycle RE? Is this c...

Re: Action Builder ES2 - Checkbox Woes ! ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

That's it - thanks! DOH.

Action Builder ES2 - Checkbox Woes ! ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiI am trying to use the action builder to check a c series of checkboxes when a button is clicked.However the OK button is greyed out as per below? Any ideas folks?Or the JS for ticking / unticking a checkbox would be grand! ThanksEllis

Global Binding - stops XML mapping? ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiI have a large form that I had mapped the xml to a spreadsheet for onward processing. I have created another verion of the form adding lots of new fields and re using existing fields. The only changes I made to the original for was to set some of the fields to 'Global Binding' however this seems to have broken the xml mapping? Now when I import data int the xml no data appears (even though data is present when I view the xml in IE)I fear I will need to remap the entire form (takes a while) unl...

Form data - import 'rules' ? ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiI am experiencing some strange behaviour when importing data into my form. My form collects data via dynamic tables ( '+' and '-' buttons to add and remove rows) and then concatenates the text in hidden 'mirrored tables' to get the text into the required format for onward processing. The issue I have is that when I import data (xml) some of the mirrored tables expand to the correct number of rows and get populated fine whilst others do not. I can see no difference in the code for the different...

Re: To display fields data dynamically on run time ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi - I'm no expert believe me but I think what you need to look at is the concept of 'positioned subforms' in a 'flowed container' subform.I found this guys you tube videos invaluable - this one is probably the one you needForm Flow | Usually Simple / Never EasyGood luck!E

I think I know the answer but... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

I need users to be able to import the xml created from one PDF form (designed in ES2) into a second PDF form (also ES2) - it basically uses the same data and displays it in a different way.This works fine with Adobe Acrobat Pro as iy has the option to import data - however this is not present in the Reader.Is there any way around this? Any freeware or such like perhaps?ThxE

Re: What's wrong with this code? :) ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Thanks radzmar!

Form does not 'recognise' user entered email addresses? ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

HiMy form collects email addresses however I want the form to 'recognise' the entered email address as an email address and create a link to create an email when clicked.I'm using ES2 and have set the text box to rich text - am I missing something here?See above image - how do I get the form to recognise that as an email address and create a hyperlink to open an email to send to this address?Thanks!!E

Re: What's wrong with this code? :) ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Thanks both for your ideas Radzmar : I amended your code by adding some additional fields ( I have 7 in total ), I have used exactly the same syntax as your example yet it only seems to recognize that the first 2 fields are not null? Also the "empty" result does not seem to work?Here is my amended code:Subform2.ImpactsTable.Row1.FinanceNotes.rawValue = ImpactsTable.Row1.FinanceImpact7.isNull && ImpactsTable.Row2.HealthSafetyImpact7.isNull && ImpactsTable.Row2.OpsBusinessImpact7.isNull && Impacts...

What's wrong with this code? :) ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi Guys - would appreciate a little help here, I think I'm close but...I am trying to write javascript to check whether several fields are null. Basically if ANY of the fields are populated then FinanceNotes should = "filled", if they are ALL null then it should be "empty".The code I have so far is below however I am unsure what the correct syntax is to add all of the fields (FinanceImpact7, HealthSafetyImpact7 etc) - is it && or || etc?if (ImpactsTable.Row1.FinanceImpact7.rawValue == null && Im...

Re: validate empty cell in table row ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi MagusAppreciate this thread is a year old now but I think I can use similiar code to validate a table I have (see post below)Validation - user needs to complete at least one field of a table...One immediate question: where would I put this javascript? What object and what event to trigger?ThanksEllis

Validation - user needs to complete at least one field of a table... ellis355 - Adobe LiveCycle

Hi AllI have a table, which is populated by the user using dropdowns. I have some javascript which auto populates to the right of the users selection.This all works fine however I now need to add some validation to check that the user has completed at least one field on one line.The table is belowSo the validation (mandatory) needs to error unless at least one field is populated (in the dropdown section ie not 'Notes' or 'Date')The pdf can be found here:Dropbox - 207 For Forum.pdfAny suggestions...

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