Comments on: Featur-O-meter for Designer 8.2

By: Sven Pelta

Sven Pelta — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:34:30 +0000

Stefan,

I was actually referring to floating fields that can be edited in Acrobat/Reader. We have a lot of requests from customers for that.

By: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:46:38 +0000

One more suggestion with Form Guides, it would be great if a FooterRow with totals to be added to a DataGrid.

I understand that Flex 3.0 has the AdvancedDataGrid that adds a total row feature so here’s hoping I can just replace the Flex SDK directory in the Guide Builder (C:\Program Files\Adobe\LiveCycle Designer ES\8.1\plugins\GuideBuilder\flexsdk) with the Flex 3.0 SDK then create a custom RepeaterGrid component that uses the new AdvancedDataGrid. This will be easier than implementing the solution listed here: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/2007/04/datagrid_footers.html.

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:20:32 +0000

Albert M,

Having the ability to programmatically set the name of the XML data file that is emailed from Acrobat/Reader is something many, many people have been requesting for a long time. I hope lots of people vote on that feature!

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:25:53 +0000

John Nesbitt,

That’s a great suggestion. The Guide Builder should provide an easier way than creating a custom component in order to override formatting properties of guide fields/text.

By: Albert M

Albert M — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:31:30 +0000

Collect and manage XML files from PDF forms by mail would be far easier if you can assign their name and/or the object of the mail.

By: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:12:46 +0000

With Form Guides, you should be able to change the appearance (colour, size, font, etc) of Guide Text, captions or bound panel help text without having to break the binding.

This should be either via a CSS class or the standard appearance settings (in properties).

(You cannot bind a Guide Text to a TextField and then make that appear in bold red)

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:39:53 +0000

Sven Pelta,

Sounds like you’re having some trouble with editing Floating Fields. There are ways to edit Floating Field properties. One way is to select them directly in the Hierarchy palette and then change their properties via the Object palette. Another way is to edit the text object in which they’re placed, click on the place-holder (usually looks like “{TextField1}” within the text) to highlight the Floating Field and then use the Object palette to modify its properties once again.

Does that help at all or is there something more specific that you are unable to do (or unable to do easily)?

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:35:57 +0000

Masi,

That’s very interesting feedback, thank you! I don’t think that really fits within the Featur-O-Meter as it sounds like it represents a fundamental change Designer. I have, however, passed your comments onto our Product Manager for appropriate consideration.

By: Sven Pelta

Sven Pelta — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:06:22 +0000

Three words: Editable Floating Fields.

By: John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:45:07 +0000

Trevor,

Thank you very much for your reply!

I’m stoked that the Guide Text can be bound to a TextField. I knew you could link Guide Text to a field but I’d only ever tried linking it to a Text field (as opposed to a TextField).

I couldn’t replicate the initial presence setting issue – I must have been doing something wrong when I first came across it. Sorry for that.

John.