We have PDF versions of client literature which have a JS action creating a dropdown menu to jump to specific pages. We've been producing them for a number of years but now the client uses MS Edge… and the menus no longer work… is there a way to fix it (except leaving Edge)?
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PDFs with JS action dropdown menus, menus now don't work in MS Edge. Is there a fix?
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Distribute Form Grayed Out
I am using Livecycle Designer ES4 and I opened a form that someone else had designed and made edits and Saved it as my own. When I attempt to distribute the form, the distribute form is grayed out. If I send my form back to the original author and he opens it, he is able to distribute. How can we change ownership of an edited form so that I may distribute it?
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PDF created with Acrobat Pro but once loaded in LiveCycle broken javascript
To start I do not have Adove LiveCycle or anyway to access it.
I have a company that we use a web based tool that is an essential part of our business and they will implement or load any form we want into their system so we can use it and it will populate customer information based on their mapping. I know they use an xml token for the forms. So I created some custom forms in Acrobat Pro DC with some custom calculation scripts in them because the company we are using can only do mapping or simple calculations.
I sent them some forms and they loaded them but each text field that had a custom calculation script in it is showing up on their site with the text fields completely missing and the java-script does not work at all. Even the fields that I set a default value but no custom calculation script in is completely missing once we download them.
They provided me their mapping cheat sheet so I could map everything to their xml token and that part works fine. It is only the fields that is using any form of java-script.
How can I fix this or how can I help them understand where to implement my custom calculation script? I can happily email them the script for each field I need so all they have to do is copy and paste. Would my java-script even work if they just copied and pasted my script to that field?
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Hiding the Arrow of a Drop Down List on exit
I have a form with a drop down list containing various items. Once an item has been selected i want the arrow head to disappear and then reappear on entry again. I believe the only way to do this is to make the field read only on exit and then open again on entry but i have no idea how to write that script. (still learning)! any help would be appreciated.
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Issues adding pages
So I'm trying to add pages to a PDF originally created in LiveCycle. All I need to do is add pages so that I can Replace Artwork to make all the field line up. So I copied the pages I needed going from 40 pages to 43 in the Design View Hierarchy but when I save it and open it with Adobe, or look in the Preview PDF tab, the PDF still only has 40 pages. How can I make the number of pages in Preview PDF match the number of pages in Design View.
***DISCLAIMER***
I've tried to edit the form in Adobe Acrobat Pro but it tells me that I have to use LiveCycle.
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ADOBE FORM for SAP - where is the documentation
Hello Everybody,
I started to work with adobe form for two weeks now.
And i am wondering something since two days where is the documentation ?
On adobe forums, we find a quick FAQ.
On SCN there is some documentation.
But where is the official or/and most complete documentation ?
Is the full documentation given when you buy the adobe product or is there a full on line documentation ?
Best Regards
Abdou
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Xml parsing error - " help please
I have been using livecycle designer for some time but am quite new to xml.
I have added a regular button with the submit function to allow my form to be emailed and this works well.
However we would like to have the email pre-populate the subject line and body with a set of instructions for our users.
After lots of google and forum searches I have the line of xml code
submit format="pdf" textEncoding="UTF-16" xdpContent="pdf datasets xfdf" target="mailto:email@health.qld.gov.au" subject="Completed Travel Form for Approval - Traveller - Date"& body="(email body) "/>
but I am getting the following error - XML parsing error:not well-formed (invalid token) (error code 4), line 10220, column 202 of file
which relates to the " after the word Date
Does anyone know how I can fix this?? and if this will do what I am trying to achieve?
Thanks
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LiveCycle Designer ES4 crashes when opening a form created in LCD
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwwcaljWYa0SNmNpanZyaGJxVHJNMTNuRWlDcnB4YVRlMU1v/view?usp =sharing
I created this in Creative Suite's edition of LiveCycle Designer. Not sure the suite edition now; maybe 5? Anyway, now I need to edit some text. Acrobat says it must be edited in LCD. LCD says "Opening", then "Loading", then crashes with "Adobe LiveCycle Designer has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program."
I know, on the face of it, that my ES version number appears to be earlier than my CS version number. But I had CS a couple of years ago, while this ES is the one available now, via Creative Cloud; I surmise that the two are separate tracks, not sequential, and that ES4 really can follow CS5.
Can anyone help me get a version of this form I can open in LCD ES4, so I can make some edits?
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Unable to automatically populate fields that have Global Data Binding
Hello,
I have a long LCD form with a button at the top that I use to fill the form with test data. So that button just has a bunch of "rawValue = ____" statements. But a few of the fields in the form use global data binding, and the button just won't fill those fields. So I still have to fill those fields manually every time I want to test. Can anyone tell me if there's a way to get around this? Thanks for any help.
Kam.
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Adobe LiveCycle Designer 11.0 with AveryDennison printer MLI language problem
Hello,
We are using the SAP software which calls the SAP ME, and we downloaded the version Adobe LiveCycle Designer 11.0 from SAP support portal and use it for design our production label templates. Our printer type is called Avery Dennison, and it works in generally. But recently we got a requirement for a new label template. For this template we are asked to use some special font type, and we can design it in the Designer, and after that we tried the label printing, with the option Configuration File zebra300dpi - and in the Avery Dennison printer we setup the printer languge as MLI. We tried to print but we realized the special font cannot be sent from Adobe LiveCycle Designer to this printer, because the label comes from the printer always has the font Arial.
Do you have any idea whether I need upgrade anything to have the Adobe LiveCycle Designer support the special font to this kind of Avery Dennison printers?
PS - We tried another label designer tool, and from the designer side we also set the print lauguage as zebra, and printed the label which contains the special font successfully, which means the Avery Dennison printer with MLI language support the special fonts other than the Arial.
Thanks & regards,
Leon
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Reflect xfa data updates into form fields without xfa.form.remerge()
Following the very useful sample provided here:
Re: SaveXML and LoadXML problem
I noticed that if you update the field values, then the data model is updated immediately, however, if you update the data model node values, then the bound field values are not reflected unless you execute xfa.form.remerge() or xfa.datasets.loadXML(...).
I was looking for a solution to update the data model node values on the form initialize event or load event, and all bound element values to be reflected accordingly. The purpose is to execute a web-service before data binding occurs, and load the data model with the result of the web-service, but without executing remerge() nor loadXML() since both will trigger the "init" events for all elements, and it will be a problem.
The reason for this is that we are binding the element captions to the data model (Data Connection) to implement localization for the form fields.
If this is not possible, this means the only way is to load the data with the XML Data File used to merge with the form template when the form is generated.
The other solution is to load the data using the web service, and write code to update the caption values directly. But this approach removes the abstraction layer of the data model and data binding which helps make the code easier to maintain.
Appreciate your feedback.
Tarek
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import xml data to form in acrobat pro dcs
I have probably 40 forms created using livecycle designer that do not work in dc. They worked fine Acrobat pro XI.I am not interested in recreating the forms since I have hundreds of hours invested already. Is there a way to restore the functionality without closing my business to recreate the forms?
The detail process I am after is how to import form data from an xml file. Nothing happens when I click the import data button. I can't find where I would map the form fields to the xml data field.
Can anyone point me to a step by step?
(Acrobat pro dc, windows 10)
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I'm Losing LiveCycle. What are my Options?
Hello all,
I'm looking for a bit of advice on some direction that has been forced upon me through my enterprise licensing with LiveCycle and Adobe in general. Recently, the people who procure our software decided not to include LiveCycle in our Adobe package. This probably is due to the fact that Adobe separated LiveCycle from Adobe Pro and the standalone fee is too high.
Ok, so that being said, I started learning how to use LiveCycle a number of months ago and had a lot of success. We used it to build and edit PDF forms that are used by our clients to provide reports on work that they do. It is mandatory that they fill out these forms annually. We had a number of major changes to these forms that we were undertaking when the licensing got cancelled. So, now I am in a bit of a flux as I have unfinished forms and I need some direction on what to do next. I am being relied upon to seek out alternatives. My background in this area isn't strong. I've googled around the net looking for alternative solutions to Livecycle. I'm not finding anything. I do see a number of other software packages (there seems to be hundreds!) that do form building and I am having a hard time weeding through the options. So I thought I would ask for some advice.
To be a little more specific, the forms I had built use a lot of customization via JavaScript (validation, formula's to calculate a Cost Statement table, formatting of text values, etc). It was a combination of standalone JavaScript API coding and some of the XFA stuff.
So, the first thing I have been tasked to do is to find software that will allow me to edit these forms and make regular updates. I'm just not sure what other software out there will do some of the same things at a reasonable cost.
The second thing, and this part is only an idea at this time, is to move towards a web form. Something that can accomplish all the same validation and customization that I am doing with my standalone forms and can dump the information entered into the form, into a database on my servers here at the office (generally, when we receive our PDF forms, this data is entered into a database we have). I simply do not have any experience with online forms which is why I haven't moved in this direction yet.
Anyways, I'm interested in any advice. keep in mind my skill level here. Something overly complex may not work for me at this point as I need to find a solution sooner than later.
Cheers.
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Duplicating a static version of a dynamic table in same form
Hi,
I'm creating a contracting template form where I a cover page that holds all the user entered fields. Names, dates, amounts, applicable contract terms etc. Once completed it a click event makes the contract visible with all the data populated from the cover page.
The issue is I have a dynamically expanding table for the payment schedule (see below).
Row 1 is fixed as they'd always have 1 payment that is due when the contract is signed, but row 2 lets them schedule installment payments. The footer totals the Amounts in column 3 and validates that it equals the total amount of the agreement. Everything works like a charm.
What I need is for this table to be then copied to a later part of the form as a static table based on the completed dynamic table on the cover page. I'm attempting to have the cover page be the only place where users are entering information. I can always put the dynamic form into the payment portion of the contract but want to avoid it if I can.
Is this even possible? I feel like I'm missing something simple. I've searched for previous questions on the topic and had little luck or the links to examples are no longer active. I'm only self taught and most of what I've found has not been explicitly detailed for someone who just follows tutorials.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
-Megan
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Livecycle Designer ES4 - is this software coming to end of support?
Hi All,
I have a couple of questions with regards to the Livecycle Designer ES4 that i hope to get some advise:
1. Is Livecycle Designer ES4 coming of end of life, or end or support?
2. Currently i am using Livecycle Designer ES4 to create and edit dynamic PDF forms for my clients, if it is coming to end of support, do i need to migrate to AEM forms? Will i still be able to edit and create dynamic PDF forms using Livecycle Designer ES4?
3. If i still use Livecycle Designer ES4 to create and edit forms, is there any limitation?
4. About AEM, do they have a form designer program similar to Livecycle Designer ES4? Do i need to be train in a new environment again?
Basically i hope to be able to support my clients requirement, where we will create or edit dynamic forms for their use.
Please kindly advise,
Much appreciated, Thanks!
Best Regards,
Ray
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conditional data binding question
Hi, guys
I'm new bee in LiveCycle Designer. I got questions about conditional data binding question in adobe Live Cycle designer ES3.
My XML files structure is like following:
<item>
<Name>name1</Name>
<Type>A</Type>
<Amount>10</Amount>
</item>
<item>
<Name>name2</Name>
<Type>B</Type>
<Amount>20</Amount>
</item>
<item>
<Name>name3</Name>
<Type>B</Type>
<Amount>30</Amount>
</item>
........
And now I want to display items only with type= A . How can I get this conditional data binding?
I've already use SOM predicates in item's Data Binding expression like this: $.item.[Type=='A'] but it return syntax error.
BR, PiPi Li
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how do you assign script (uppercase/sentence case) output to a variable?
Hi, I posted a question and a forum user Raghu was really great, and helped to get a working demo going, but i'm still a bit lost
the demo form is attached, and as you can see Raghu has some cool code on the variables to make stuff go ALL CAPS and Sentence caps, which is what we need, and you can see that it works cause it is output to the text fields and appears correctly.
Now thats cool, i suspect were 90+ % of the way there, but what i dont know how to do is to have the input text (the name fields rawValue) turned into variables so i can use them without first putting them into fields and referencing those
Raghu kindly explained that this could be done by calling it as a function, (and no doubt he's right) but i don't know how to do that.....
can anyone clarify, ideally with an idiot proof example or two
I need to be able to attach the code/call the function to about 20 fields in each form, and have a variable for each of those fields, like so
First Name Field - rawvValue entered " Julia"
Middle Name Field - rawValue entered "katie"
Last name field - - rawValue entered "smith"
to get 6 vars that i call call directly ie FNUpper (for JULIA) FNSC (for Julia) MNUPPER (for KATIE) and so on
anyone out there able to explain/demonstrate this in idiot proof lingo?
thanks for the help
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Can't add a new column to LCD table? Option there, just wont add it.
I have a LCD form with a table in it. Im trying to simply add a new column to the table. The option is there but the column just wont appear after clicking add Column to Left. I selected a column, right clicked the space > Insert > Column to left. But wont intsert. The table object properties tab shows rows and colum numbers but they are grayed out.
See screenshots:
http://www.emermed.net/staging/forums...
http://www.emermed.net/staging/forums...
This is a dynamic table where a new row can be inserted using a button. Is that dynamic nature the issue? Id hate to undo all the dynamic flow and programming just to add a column then reapply everything.
Thanks!
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How to export data from a string to a CSV file
Hello,
i do have a string in a Livecycle Designer script object with a couple of rows with different entries divided by a semicolon:
COLUMN1;COLUMN2;COLUMN3 Entry1;Entry2;Entry3 Entry4;Entry5;Entry6
The goal is now to export this string from Livecycle Designer into a CSV file by clicking a button. Is there any solution suggested?
Thank you very much.
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