Let me put it simply: I got burned by using a particular syntax to check the existence of a field inside a subform object due to form compatibility settings in LiveCycle Designer 8.2.
What?
It started with a form I had created using Designer 8.1 which was set to target Acrobat 8.1/XFA 2.6. Later-on, I installed Designer 8.2 and wanted to update my form to target Acrobat 9/XFA 2.8.
In my form, I had a script object with various functions that used the following syntax to test the existence of a field inside a subform object which was passed-in to these functions as a parameter:
if (subformObj.someField)
The result of this was what I expected: If ‘someField’ existed inside ‘subformObj’, the IF statement would evaluate to ‘true’; if it didn’t, it would evaluate to ‘false’. According to the rules of dynamic properties in JavaScript, this was all fine and dandy.
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Posted by Stefan Cameron on February 11th, 2009
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Acrobat,
Debugging,
Designer,
Scripting,
XFA
Angie Okamoto, Director of Enterprise Development at Easel Solutions, and Ted Padova, the "PDF Guru" and author of the "Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible" series, have published a new book titled, "PDF Forms Using Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Bible". I’m sure it’ll be a great reference!
Their book is available now on Amazon.com and Wiley.com.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on February 5th, 2009
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Acrobat,
Books,
Data Binding,
Designer,
Instance Manager,
Scripting,
Tables,
Tutorials,
XFA
Here’s your chance to make your voice heard with the Adobe Reader Team: They’re looking for your feedback on what you want most in future versions. Would you like Reader to be a smaller download? Should it be easier to use? Does it need a specific feature?
Please take 5 minutes to complete the survey by January 31, 2009, and let the team know what your thoughts are.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on January 12th, 2009
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Acrobat
For those of you still waiting for a PDF version of the JavaScript for Acrobat 9 API documentation, I have some unfortunate news: I have learned that there will be no PDF version issued. The only documentation available will be the LiveDocs version which I reported on earlier.
I think that’s really unfortunate since PDFs (and CHMs) tend to be faster (no need to wait for page loads every time you select a topic), better indexed, easier to search and available offline. What’s your preference?
Posted by Stefan Cameron on December 8th, 2008
Filed under
Acrobat,
AcroForm Objects,
Scripting
Welcome to the third and final part of a three-part post series tutorial on importing data into a form guide and a PDF. The first part covered the form design, the second part covered the Flex code and the third part will cover designing and debugging the form guide that will complete the solution.
Form Guide Layout
The goal is to design a form guide which will provide two panels: one for user options and the other for results.
The first panel will expose the 4 fields inside the GuideObjects subform (which are only meant to be exposed in the form guide — hence why the GuideObjects subform has the Initialize script to hide it if the host isn’t “Flash”). The user will have the option to choose an actor and/or category for further filtering and will then click on the GetMovies button to execute the request on the Movie Service. When the requested XML is returned to the form guide, the GetMovies result handler will convert the XML into instances of MovieRow inside the Listing table.
The second panel will use a repeater layout to expose the Listing table’s contents within the form guide however this panel will only be accessible if the movie query returned 1 or more results.
Once the results are in, the user will then be able to switch (“flip”) to the PDF view which will show the Listing table in the form, from which the user could then print or archive the results.
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Posted by Stefan Cameron on November 19th, 2008
Filed under
Acrobat,
Bugs,
Conferences,
Debugging,
Form Guides,
Scripting,
Tables,
Tutorials
