Thank you, that does just what I want.  The only little change I would like to make (if possible) is that I would like the DATE field to display empty when the form is first opened.  Is that possible? or do you need the date displayed to make the drop down to understand to show a date 25 years ago?

Hi I am creating a Date of Birth field in a form and was wondering if there was a way to alter the deafult year. Most users will be at least 25 so it would make sense to have my date drop down show you 1987 (for example) when it drops downs so that users don't have a far back to navigate.  Is this p...

Could it be that your text box and your drop down list are in different subforms....If so, instead of Textfield.presence=visible where Textfield is the name of your text box, you would have subform1.textfield.presence=visible where Subform1 is the name of the subform containing the text box...or sim...

If I understand your issue properly, then I think what you need to do is check the "Allow Custom Text Entry" box on the FIELD page of the OBJECT palette. It can be found under the area where you define the list items in your drop down list.I hope this helps

Thanks for responding Mike-Davies!I am trying to use DATA from say excel and use it to populate a form. The excel form would be updated and then hopefully so would the relevant areas of the form, which would do other things with the data. I am not sure that what you have suggest will accomplish th...

No I have not had any responses but am still keen to find an answer

HiI have an excel spreadsheet set up to calculate average, count, max and min of some data that will be regularly altered.I would like to connect the spreadsheet cells to my form sop that this calculated data is imported into my form (created in Livecycle Designer).I have looked at numerous pages ex...

Livecycle Designer is a bundled product (including bundled in the trial version).  So it is free when you buy Acrobat...it has been bundled with Acrobat since version 7.0 (I think...sorry Adobe staff if I have that wrong and it was with earlier versions).  I find Livecycle Designer fabulous and much...

You CAN create a form that allows users to save their data using Acrobat X...or more correctly the software bundled with Acrobat X.  You create the form in Livecycle Designer and then if you wish for your users to be able to fill in and save the data using Acrobat Reader, then you open your form in ...

In Livecycle ES2 there is an option under Form Properties>Defaults that lets you choose the target version of Acrobat and Reader that will be using your form.  If this is set at v9.0 or X, you may be preventing the form from being openend in the older versions. Good luck