I am new to using LiveCycle and have some basic questions. Hoping someone can help put me in the right direction. I have created a form, with fillable fields and binding field names. I still need to make the SQL database table, but that is not where I am looking for help. Below are my bulleted questions, as I am not sure how else to list them out.
- I have some text boxes and some text fields. The text boxes should not have tab control, they are really just labels for the text fields. Is this a bad setup, or is that ok?
- I have a combo box at the top of the form. I would like to have some code to control the rest of the form -
- Hide or show text fields based on the option chosen
- Set the value of text boxes based on the option chosen
- I have the first option of the combo box set as UNASSIGNED, but would rather it be blank until someone chooses an actual value. Is that possible?
- The end goal is to have people save these forms in a folder (they will be offline and have no other choice). When they are back on our domain, I will either look to use an Access front end form or other method to choose the folder and have all the data from all the pdfs in that folder imported into the appropriate table
- I would like to export a list of the text field binding names, so I can just have that list to build my sql table. Any quick way to get that?
Some random questions about LiveCycle (not as immediately important, right now)
- What are fragments? I looked them up in help but I still don't understand what a fragment is, or why I would create one
- Any other great parts of the program I should be using, that I am probably not?
Thanks!
Update: I found how to set the drop down default value to <NONE> in the value tab of the object pallete, but it still shows the first value. Even if I save it, go to preview, or save it and open in Adobe. Am I missing something in setting that default option to be "empty" until someone chooses a value?