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LiveCycle Components for your Solutions

Have you ever wondered which LiveCycle components you would need to build your solution? There is a vast array of tools at your disposition within LiveCycle so how do you figure-out which ones you’ll need? Furthermore, they’re not all included in the package — some are part of LiveCycle Foundation while others are purchased “a la carte”. To make sure you purchase/install only what you’ll need, check-out this post on Avoka’s LiveCycle Blog. It’s a very useful list to have.


Posted by Stefan Cameron on March 4th, 2009
Filed under LiveCycle

Form Guide + PDF in AIR

Check this out: My colleague Trevor Ward, developer on the Form Guide Team, has just posted a very cool sample of an AIR app running a Form Guide complete with data and an embedded PDF on the LiveCycle Form Guide blog. Please keep in mind that it’s just a proof-of-concept but it should give you enough to go on to build your own solution if you’ve been wondering if/how this could be done.


Posted by Stefan Cameron on February 26th, 2009
Filed under Form Guides

Expandable Table with Totals

It seems that calculating totals in an expandable table with a dynamic/repeatable row is a hot topic lately so I thought I would post a tutorial on how to build a simple table which represents a purchase order where you can add and remove line items and various totals are automatically calculated.

Before we get started, you’ll need Designer 7.1 and Acrobat/Reader 7.0.5 at minimum to run through this tutorial. I will be using Designer 8.2 and Acrobat/Reader 9.0 to do the tutorial so it’s possible some of the UI may have changed slightly since the 7.1/7.05 versions.

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Posted by Stefan Cameron on February 25th, 2009
Filed under Data Binding,Designer,FormCalc,Scripting,Tables,Tutorials,XFA

Ottawa Winterman 2009

Since I spend most of my free time outside of work and electronic forms on my road bike and training for running races, I thought I would share a few pictures of the 10k I ran at the very first Ottawa Winterman race today, Feb 22, 2009. In true Canadian form, we ran outside in the blowing snow. Thankfully it wasn’t very cold: About -3C with a windchill around -10C. I wasn’t as serious about this race as with others so I was just out to have fun and I still managed a respectable 50:14 finish time despite the greasy, slushy road conditions!

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Posted by Stefan Cameron on February 22nd, 2009
Filed under General

Recording of AUC eSeminar on LiveCycle Designer

The recording of the Acrobat User Community eSeminar on Advanced Forms and LiveCycle Designer by Easel Solution’s Angie Okamoto is now available for viewing. Angie demonstrates advanced concepts in creating dynamic forms with LC Designer and you can also see all of the Q&A comment threads between the attendees and the team of specialists answering the questions.


Posted by Stefan Cameron on February 13th, 2009
Filed under Data Binding,Designer,Instance Manager,Scripting,Tables,Tutorials