What’s the script you’re using in the button’s Click event to update the values of the hidden text fields? If your script is written in JavaScript, have you looked at the JavaScript Console in Acrobat to see if there are any errors?

I am getting this weird problem in LiveCycle (not that it operates smoothly on other occasions). I have a few text fields on the form which are hidden (there to hold user entered options across various sessions). There is a button whose click event updates the values of these fields. The problem is, even though in the click event, it shows the values (rawValue) of the text fields as being updated, these are not updated on the form itself. If I use app.alert() in click event to see values, these are shown as updated values but the values in the fields don’t change (I have checked this by making the fields visible so that I can spot the change). These remain null forever.

If you can help, I will greatly appreciate that. I have checked Adobe Forums to see if there is a related post but found none. The nearest I can find is yours and I am encouraged to see that you actually reply to the posts; on many sites, replies are found rarely (if ever).

Thank you in advance.

Rahul.

I’m afraid I can’t help you decrypt a password-protected PDF. It’s not something you should be trying to do…

I’m assuming that you mean your text field has a sunken border only around its content area (i.e. only around the value), not its nominal extent (i.e. its caption and value). To do this, you simply need to use the PrePrint and PostPrint to hide and show, respectively, the content area border of the field.

Select the text field and use the “Window > Script Editor” command to show the Script Editor palette. Choose the PrePrint event and hide the content area border (you may also have to set the language to JavaScript since I’m showing JavaScript in this example):

this.ui.oneOfChild.border.presence = "hidden";

Next, choose the PostPrint event and make the border visible again:

this.ui.oneOfChild.border.presence = "visible";

That’s it!

I would suggest you set the access property of your date/time field to “readOnly” instead of “protected”. This will make the field non-interactive and it will no longer respond to any mouse or keyboard events.

I have a problem that is related to this topic. I have a date field in an instantiated subform that has a script on the exit event that makes one of three sets of hidden buttons visible, depending on the date entered. Clicking on one of the buttons makes a third (text) field visible and adds “1″ to one of two numeric fields (for counting purposes). On that click event, it also changes the date field to access: “protected” and hides the buttons. Basically, after all these events, I don’t want any more changes.

The problem is with the protection of the date field. Although it does prevent any changes to the date, if the mouse clicks in the caption part of the date field (not the calendar field), it triggers the exit event and the buttons appear. The bigger problem is that if one of those buttons is clicked, it adds 1 to the numeric field and then the count is off. The script works perfectly as long as there is no clicking on the date field after all this above events happen. I thought that “protected” meant that no events would be triggered. Is there anyway around this?

Thank you!