Validation / Reset Functions, easy to manipulate and to change Forms!!!!

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Hello everyone,

 

I've just opened this discussion free to everyone to discuss about any easy way to validate / reset form fields.

I'm providing a development tool to be used in LiveCycle Designer with a new way to validate and reset forms in any ways. You can change the design of PDF Forms without having to change much code.

The validation function is to validate any field which returns null / 0

 

It is independent / self-responsive to the design of any forms. I'm working on the function to make sure it can work with any kind of settings set in PDF forms.

 

The objects which contains the functions are not to modify(unless you know what to modify), you can add any specific validation to your form by adding field/subform names in the exception arrays.

 

All your specific validation is to be inserted in the validate buttons. It is also possible to validate only a part of the form, 1 page, 2 pages or a subform only.

 

Instructions to use the functions are in the PDF Form to download below, take a look, feedback and questions are always welcome as well.

 

TemplateDesign_Validation_Reset_Form.pdf - Google Drive

 

Hope this will help some of you.

Mag

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September 17, 2014, 1:54 pm

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Hi All.

I would like to create simple form with round corners. How it to do?

Thanks

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September 17, 2014, 3:43 pm

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Hi guys. I'm a newbie here.

Here's my question (scenario)..

 

I have a table in SQL:

      

JobCode	JobCode_Desc	JobCode_FullDesc	DeptCode	DeptCode_Desc	DeptCode_FullDesc
380000	Risk Management Activities	380000 - Risk Management Activities	38100	AMA Business Support	38100 - AMA Business Support
380001	Estimate & Risk Mngmt Procedur	380002 - Estimate & Risk Mngmt Procedur	38100	AMA Business Support	38100 - AMA Business Support
380211	SA 14/052	380211 - SA 14/052	38940	Engineering	38940 - Engineering
380212	SA 14/053	380212 - SA 14/053	38940	Engineering	38940 - Engineering
380300	Website Development	380300 - Website Development	38120	Stakeholder & Customer Rel	38120 - Stakeholder & Customer Rel
380301	CRM	380301 - CRM	38120	Stakeholder & Customer Rel	38120 - Stakeholder & Customer Rel
380800	IDM Administration	380800 - IDM Administration	38110	Information Management	38110 - Information Management
380801	IDM Management & Communication	380801 - IDM Management & Communication	38110	Information Management	38110 - Information Management

 

Now i want to create a cascading dropdown list from this table. 1st dropdown will be theDeptCode, 2nd dropdown  will be the JobCode, and 3rd textfield will be the JobCode_Desc.

If i choose 38100 from DeptCode dropdown list, there should only be 2 available JobCode (380000 and 380001) in JobCode dropdown list. And if i choose 380000 from JobCode dropdown list, it should display the  "Risk Management Activities" from JobCode_Desc.

How could I achieve this?

 

Thank you in advance for the help and guidance.

 

All the best guys!

 

Cheers,

 

Michael

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September 18, 2014, 2:10 am

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I have forms created originally in LiveCycle 9 that, since the upgrade to 11.00.09 for Mac, will now not email. Any suggestions much appreciated. Thanks

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I have CS4. I was starting to use Acrobat to design some forms. Went ok, but needed to edit the forms. Now when I start live cycle designer, it crashes and says "Live cycle designer has stopped working."

One forum said to delete microsft visual (something). I did that, but it still doesn't work. OS is vista business on a laptop (well specc'd). Uninstalling nad re-installing failed to help.

WHat now?

THanks.

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September 18, 2014, 12:10 pm

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While moving text objects around my page, i suddenly got this error pop up message and now i am unable to continue moving text objects around the page. I'm very close to finishing my document. What do i need to do to clear this message and be able to continue moving objects around.

 

I had some programs open but have closed them since the message pop up.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

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May 8, 2014, 12:25 am

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Hi,

 

in my form i do have an xfa.host.response dialog password box:

 

var sPassword = xfa.host.response("Please enter your password:", "Password", "", true);

 

I'm wondering now if there is no possibilty to directly set the cursor focus into the pop up password box. To work with xfa.host.setFocus(somExpression) seems to be not possible because the dialog box has no somExpression, right?

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

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September 19, 2014, 8:04 am

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Good morning to you all and happy Friday for those that have the weekend off.

 

I would like to know what is the proper/easy way to do a page break. I recently created a file in Adobe Livecycle and merge this file with another PDF file that I'm using as a cover sheet to a Notice that I will be distributing pretty soon.

 

The reason i would like to add a page break is to seperate the "intendent cover sheet" with the rest of the sheets which are a notice. I want to be able to set the print properties to 2 sided print job but seperate the first sheet from the rest.

 

Any tips?

 

 

 

Also, I wanted to add. Since Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro does not allow XML files to be combined, instead of saving my livecycle designer form I had to print to Primo PDF that way i could save a non XML version of my form and be able to use the combine feature within Acrobat 9 Pro.

 

....My original document was saved as .tds that way i could edit when needed. Just thought i would bring the above to the readers attention so they would know what I did.

 

Since i print to Primo PDF i am now able to use my file in Acrobat and combine it with another PDF file that i have that i want to use as a cover sheet. This is where i want to seperate the 1st page when printing so the rest of the pages do not print on the back side of the cover sheet when selecting print 2 sided

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September 19, 2014, 1:04 pm

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I have a fillable form that has been created and want it to be submitted via e-mail as a PDF document. I have everything done, have tested it from my computer and everything seems to work fine. I sent it to someone else to have them take a look at it and we have discovered that when I open it, fill it out and submit via e-mail everything is fine, however when they tried to, the submit via e-mail did not work. We were able to fill out the form, but when the submit button was clicked, nothing happened. It was after that that we discovered that as long as you opened the form on a computer with Adobe Pro XI, you could submit via e-mail, however opening it on a computer that only has Adobe Reader did not allow it to be submitted. I need the form to have the ability to be opened, filled out and submitted via e-mail from computers that only have Adobe Reader, as most people only have this version available on their computer. I should note that the computers that we tried it on with only Adobe Reader have version 11.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Ann

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September 20, 2014, 11:56 am

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trying to concatenate the address fields as below using javascript

 

this.rawValue = xfa.resolveNode("#subform[1].CAOName").rawValue + "\n" + xfa.resolveNode("#subform[1].Addr1").rawValue || "\n"

  if((xfa.resolveNode("#subform[1].Addr2").rawValue)!= null)
  {
  xfa.resolveNode("#subform[1].Addr2").rawValue}
  else
  {xfa.resolveNode("#subform[1].City").rawValue||xfa.resolveNode("#subform[1].State").rawValue||xfa.resolveNode("#subform[1].Replyzip").rawValue

 

but only the name and addr1 are printing, can somebody help me on correcting my script..Thanks

 

DE1209

Calculate one month prior to user entered date by a Date/Time field

September 21, 2014, 7:54 pm

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Hi All,

 

I am currently pretty new to Live cycle and have no idea about Java scripting, i have been using this site a lot for my forms and have used the FormCalc for expanding tables and so on but this one is proving difficult. I am currently designing a form that requires a calculation of one month prior to a user entered date by a Date/Time field. I have looked at multiple posts on how to do this but none have worked (they are using the Date2Num).

Is anyone able to enlighten me please?

I currently have:

Date/Time field Date Due

Date/Time field Planned Date of Review

I need Planned Date of Review to be calculated to be 30 days prior to Date Due. How do I go about doing this? Is it incorrect to use a Date/Time field as the field type for the calculation?

Cheers

Brad

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September 22, 2014, 3:23 am

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Hi,

 

       Please give me a solution for server connection issue. I am new to the adobe live cycle designer ES4.

I created a web form use of adobe live cycle es4 v.11.0 to retrieve the data from web service method. So, I created the WSDL type data connection in data view menu to invoke the .asmx?wsdl service and connection is established successfully. Then, I dragged and drop a button from object library window to invoke the service method and changed the type as submit button. In the submit button URL, I given the web service url as eg. http://<localhost>:<port>/Web_serive.asmx?wsdl. Finally, I saved it has a PDF file.

    When I click the submit button, a pop up window is openning as 'preparing for submit..' and 'Receving data..' and finally, it shows a pop up error message as 'An error occured during the submit process. There was a problem connecting to the server'. I tried all possiblities and if any bad english grammer, sorry for that.

 

Please give me a proper solution for this issue.

 

With Regards,

G. Prabakaran.

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Is there a way to enable LiveCycle forms to be viewable in Firefox or Chrome without shutting off their built-in PDF readers?

 

I read an article that states that in order to view XFA forms in Firefox and Chrome you have to turn off their built-in PDF rendering engine. However, that seems like a lot of work to ask my end-users. Is there a way to enable the form to be opened in Firefox and Chrome without having to turn off their built-in PDF rendering engine? Is there a setting somewhere?

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Hello,

Is there a way to change an objects presence (either a field or a subhead) based on the entered amount range in a numeric field? 

 

For example:

-The numeric field amount entered is a range between 1 and 49,999, then "Signature Subhead 1" appears.

-The numeric field amount entered is a range between 50,000 and 250,000, then "Signature Subhead 2" appears.

Etc.

 

Any advice for this script would be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

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Is there a way to make a text field auto capitalize after a period if the user has forgotten. I am currently using LiveCycle Designer ES4

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September 22, 2014, 8:55 am

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I have a form that has a table inside of a subform which I've added a button to add additional instances of the subform containing the table. The add instance button is working fine, however, I also have a button to delete the current instance of the subform containing the table, and it isn't working right. It keeps removing the first instance of the subform rather than the current instance. For example, lets say the first table is for ordering product A, then the user can add another instance of the table to order product B, and then add a third table to order product C. So, lets say the user doesn't need the second table (product B) for whatever reason, so they click the delete table button in the second table, but instead of removing the second table containing product B, it removes the first table which contains product A.

 

I have the subform (OrderMain) set to repeat with a minimum count of 1. The button to add an instance of the OrderMain subform contains the following code:

 

this.resolveNode('MasterSubform._OrderMain').addInstance(1);

if (xfa.host.version &lt; 8) {

xfa.form.recalculate(1);

}

 

The button to remove the current instance of the subform has the following code:

 

this.resolveNode('MasterSubform._OrderMain').removeInstance(this.parent.index);

if (xfa.host.version &lt; 8) {

xfa.form.recalculate(1);

}

 

I've tried adjusting the parent index but that hasn't worked. I also put code in the delete table button to show a message box containing the current parent index and every instance returns a parent index of 0. I'm using Adobe Acrobat XI to test the form. What am I doing wrong here?

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Hi , I am trying to get the page count for the form i am designing,

 

by using the following on a text field

 

this.rawvalue = xfa.layout.pageCount();  --> i am not sure where to use this (on initialize, layout ready etc) ,i used for both of them and i am not getting any value on the form.

 

my intention is to use this field (with pagecount) to write a formula to show the address if say page count is less than 10 .

 

 

can somebody point me to the right direction, thanks in advance

 

christene

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Hello,

 

I need to develop a brand new LC custom Adobe Interactive Form, say my_Form, well, but the customer is telling me they want to have it on Active Server Pages technology, pls. let us know

 

1) Is it possible, I mean, my_Form on Active Server Pages technology?

 

2) Pros

 

3) Cons

 

4) If possible, What settings / pre-requisites I need to take while developing the my_Form? or What I need to keep in mind while developing the my_Form? Any suggestions, tips?

 

Thank you

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Hi!

 

I am using Windows 7, Adobe Output Designer 5.6 and Adobe Livecycle Designer ES4 v11.1

 

We have previously used Jetform to create forms, but are now changing to Livecycle. We have quite a few .ifd files we need to import to Livecycle, so I have installed Output Designer (version 5.6, as this is what I was given at work). I can open all the .ifd files in Output Designer without problems, but when I try to open them in Livecycle, I get multiple errors:

 

1. Error #5907 - No printers found; In fact there are quite a few printers defined on this customers Windows XP system, the just happen to be network printers.  We attempted to define a raw file printer as default, but it didn't change the outcome or the appearance of this error.

 

2. Error #5903 - You must select a printer before saving; I assume this is a response error to Error #5907

 

3. Error #1084 - Unable to open configuration file ...\convertIFD\config\pdf.icf

 

4. Conversion Error: 50463490

 

 

In other words, I have the same error codes as I found in this post from 2009; Conversion from Output Designer IFD to LC ES Designer Fails

I have tried (as suggested in the old post) to change the default printer in both Output Designer, Livecycle, and Windows, but it doesn't help.

 

Is there a compatibility issue here? Does anyone have tips on what I could try?

I don't understand why I can open the .ifd files in Output Designer, but not in Livecycle.