You could put it in the calculate wrapped in an if checking if not readOnly.

Object window (Shift+F7), binding tab.

I have never used a floating field so I was curious. I reproduced what you said except at one point, I by accident, pulled the text out of the table. I selected it again and dragged it back into the table. I then added the floating field, set to multiple line and pasted some multiline text in the de...

If FileNote is the repeating item New1.FileNote.all.item({insert number here}).DateTimeField101.access = "readOnly";

Is blank actually added as one of the list items? If the rawValue or default value of a list is set to a value that is not an item, it will seem to get added to the top, then dissapear after another item is selected.

If there is any weirdness changing your check box with say tabbing to the filed and pressing the space bar, you might want to put the code in the change event. You may also need to use xfa.event.newText instead of rawValue just for the item on which the change event is firing.

Possibly you could do it in an Execute Script step using methods available on the Java File object.

If this is something you commonly do with the same two PDFs, you could merge the two XDPs with each section in a subForm. Hide the one that does not have data. Put all the elements of both schemas into one, maybe under sub elements under the root. To merge two of them, you would merge the underlying...

Understanding how to do something in JavaScript with a String, you are better off doing a Google search for what you want to do or going to w3cshools.com. Most W3C spec JavaScript works in Adobe's JavaScript. That will help understanding the syntax of the language.If you want to change a property in...

I would start by exporting the XML data from the form before and after it grows to see if it is the underlying data that is growing and where. Did you define a schema and bind your form fields to a data connection created from the schema? That is always my first step when creating a form. It makes f...