I have just been asked to be one of the speakers/trainers for the “Developing Enterprise Solutions Using Adobe Solution Accelerators” lab in the LiveCycle Develop track at MAX this year. Once you’ve registered for MAX, launch the Scheduler and choose “By Session > Filter By: (product) LiveCycle ES; (speaker) Cameron, Stefan” to see my sessions. I will most likely be focusing my time on the Correspondence Generation (CGR) and Content Creation (CCR) building blocks which ship as part of the Solution Accelerator SDKs.
See you there!
Aug 24, 2009 — Added links to the CCR and CGR building blocks.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on July 22nd, 2009
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CM,
Conferences,
LiveCycle
Mark Szulc has posted a nice article on a few more features you can look forward to in the next version of Designer. Since the new version is now in beta, as part of the LiveCycle ES2 Beta Program, we can start talking about what the team has been working on for the past year.
One feature I’m sure will help-out a lot of folks starting-out is Actions. With this feature, you can now tell Designer that you want to do things like “make {text field B} appear when {check box A} is checked” and it will do all the heavy lifting for you — no need to write the script you normally would’ve needed to (or even know how to script it yourself)! In fact, you may find this handy even if you’re an XFA form scripting veteran since you will no longer have to worry about scripting all the simpler things and spend more time on your advanced scripts.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on July 20th, 2009
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Designer,
Scripting
Stephanie, from the LC Designer Team, has posted a nice article on up-coming enhancements she made to the Object Assist and other aspects of the Script Editor. This will be available in the next release of Designer. Looks pretty cool! I know it’ll help me out a lot when I write form scripts.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on July 17th, 2009
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Designer,
Scripting
Hello everyone!
I’m back from my month-long vacation and will be attempting to catch-up on your comments over the next couple of weeks.
I had a great time staying local, doing lots of (bicycle) riding (about 180km/week) and running (1 short run plus 1 long run, averaging 24km, per week), walking, soaking-in the sunshine and watching some movies.
I also had time to hone my volunteer web design/development skills while enhancing the Capital BrassWorks* website and my InDesign/Photoshop/Illustrator skills while helping my wife, Rebecca Lewis*, with some ad designs for her new real estate business in Ottawa.
* Note that Adobe Systems Inc. is not in any way affiliated with these organizations/companies.
Posted by Stefan Cameron on July 6th, 2009
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General
Well, I’m not out for coffee for an entire month but I will be away on vacation starting today, returning July 6, 2009. I will not be posting during that time period but I will try my best to keep-up with comments though it will not be my first priority…
In the mean time, if you feel like a coffee break, you should check-out the new Adobe LiveCycle Café: It’s a really cool AIR app by Adobe that integrates all sorts of LiveCycle-related resources into one convenient dashboard. It even lets you tag content for offline use and store personal notes, online or offline.
You get a really nice News page:
A view of all LiveCycle-related blogs (showing mine in the image below):
(There’s even a tab that lets you switch between “Post Summary” and “Site” to see the article via the feed or the actual web page.)
Another really nice feature is the ability to search in one location across all Adobe LiveCycle resources. For instance, I searched for “assignNode” (a function to create data nodes in the Data DOM) and actually got a hit right in a LiveCycle reference document — very handy!
Enjoy the coffee!
Posted by Stefan Cameron on June 5th, 2009
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Acrobat,
Designer,
General,
LiveCycle,
XFA
