@faith, Thanks for pointing that out. I have posted a second sample form (attached to this post) which uses a different web service. Hopefully that gives you...
– Stefan Cameron on 2010-09-02 12:51:18
Hi Stefan, I'm fairly new to LiveCycle too, and was wondering if there's any way to set the Master Page height dynamically based on the height of the subform...
– Ben on 2010-09-01 05:29:50
HELP: I have a form with a submit button. When I submit the form in Adobe Reader 9.3.3 I expect a reponse in a browser but instead I get an error message "An e...
– Hasan on 2010-08-31 10:09:26
@David Todd, I have confirmed that the behaviour I saw is "the way things are" at present. That is, displaying annotations above image fields isn't di...
– Stefan Cameron on 2010-08-31 09:08:52
Here is the code I used. I wasn't sure what the console.println statements were for so I added them but that also did not work and now the code no longer catche...
– Emma on 2010-08-30 20:23:07
Hi Stefan I tried your sample, but nRequestStart = sURL.indexOf("?") returns -1. Is there a problem when the PDF is opened on Web? Thanks for help Gerald...
– Gerald Clerc on 2010-08-27 10:29:13
@Gaurav, When you open the PDF in Designer, you're not looking at any values that you may have set in any fields, you're looking at the form's design therefo...
– Stefan Cameron on 2010-08-26 22:52:15
@Anders, By "text field", do you mean an actual text field that you can type into, or static text like a label that cannot be modified by the user? What s...
– Stefan Cameron on 2010-08-26 22:47:53
@Sany, The problem is probably related to the fact that you're mixing JavaScript and FormCalc syntax: Your events are set to be in JavaScript yet you have st...
– Stefan Cameron on 2010-08-26 22:46:06
@Mitesh, I hadn't heard of this before but I did confirm the behaviour with IE8 and Acrobat 9.3.3. IE8 hanged and I had to kill iexplore.exe using the Task M...
– Stefan Cameron on 2010-08-26 22:39:02

New Web Service Sample Form Posted

It was recently brought to my attention that the web service used by my sample form for my tutorial on connecting a form to a web service is no longer operational. Obviously, that makes the sample form much less useful so I have posted a second sample form that uses a different web service. If you have been struggling with the original sample, please have a look at the new one I posted in an update to the original post.

Posted by Stefan Cameron on September 2nd, 2010
Filed under Data Binding,Designer,Tutorials,XFA

LiveCycle Designer ES2 Service Pack 1

The LiveCycle ES2 SP1 update is now available and includes an update to LiveCycle Designer ES2.

Posted by Stefan Cameron on June 18th, 2010
Filed under Designer,LiveCycle

New LiveCycle Enterprise Cafe Knowledge Application

There is a new version of Adobe LiveCycle Café, renamed Adobe Enterprise Café, available for download. The new version lets you “aggregate content related to Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite), Acrobat, Connect, ColdFusion, and the Adobe Flash Platform in a timely and customized fashion.”

If you haven’t tried this out yet, it’s a great knowledge tool that lets you search across the entire Adobe Developer Community and Adobe DevNet resources, as well as get news updates, feeds, online training, events, etc., all in a single Adobe AIR application. You can even chat with other Adobe Developers who are online.

Posted by Stefan Cameron on June 10th, 2010
Filed under Acrobat,Designer,LiveCycle

Show the List of a Drop Down List

Did you know that the list portion of a drop down list field can be displayed programmatically? You can set focus to the field and force its drop list to be displayed all in a single API call:

xfa.host.openList(@object)
xfa.host.openList(@string) -- deprecated since XFA 2.6

where @object is a reference to the drop down list field and @string is the SOM expression of the drop down list field.

xfa.host.openList(myDropDownList); // set focus/show the drop list

The second form of the API has been deprecated since XFA 2.6 which means that since Designer 8.1, it is preferred to use the first form which takes a reference to the field rather than its SOM expression.

If you’re using Designer 8.0 or earlier, you can get the SOM expression of any field by using its somExpression property:

xfa.host.openList(ddlInDesigner71.somExpression)

This works in both JavaScript and FormCalc with the same syntax.

Now if only there was a way to programmatically show the drop calendar of a date/time field…

Posted by Stefan Cameron on May 31st, 2010
Filed under Scripting,Tips,Tutorials,XFA

Border and Margins in Flowed Layouts

My friends at Avoka have posted a very useful tutorial on the unexpected behavior of borders in flowed layouts and how to use margins to fix it. Check it out!

Posted by Stefan Cameron on April 21st, 2010
Filed under Tutorials,XFA

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