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Designing Forms With Adobe Livecycle Designer: W A L C D ?
Designing Forms With Adobe Livecycle Designer: W A L C D ?
Designing Forms With Adobe Livecycle Designer: W A L C D ?
This handout is simply an outline to be used as a guide in class. Adobe Designer offers many ways to accomplish different tasks. The steps below identify at least one way to accomplish a task in Adobe Designer. We will explore as much of this program as time allows.
Open an empty form online, print the form, and complete it by hand. Open an empty form online, fill in the details online or offline, and submit the information online. View an online form that contains merged data (merging is done by an application or online by another user) and print out a hard copy. View an online form that contains merged data, optionally edit the information online, and submit the revised information online. Fill part of a form online and submit to it to an automated workflow or another user for additional processing.
1. Click File, New. The New Form Assistant dialog box appears. Note: The New Form Assistant also appears when you select New Form on the Welcome screen. 2. Select New Blank Form. Click Next.
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4. The Fill Then Submit option is selected. When you select the Fill Then Submit option as the return method, Designer automatically adds a Submit By Email button to the new form design. When the person filling the form clicks this button, an email message containing an attachment with the information appears. Click Next.
5. Type your email address. The email message, with the data attachment that is created, will be addressed to you. Click Finish.
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6. The new form design opens. Notice that the wizard has placed the Submit By Email button on your form design.
The Layout Editor contains four tabs: Body Pages, Master Pages, XML Source, and PDF Preview. By default, the Body Pages tab appears in the Layout Editor. You select the tabs that you want to show or hide in the View menu. Edit the body and master pages to create the form design in the Layout Editor. Master pages specify the layout and the background for the form design. You add objects that will occur in the same position throughout the form design on a master page. Objects in the body page do not appear in the master page. The Master Pages tab is hidden by default. Design View (Body pages) contain a form's content. You create and edit the form in the Body Pages tab. Objects in the master page appear in the body page, but cannot be selected. The XML Source tab contains the form design's XML code. The XML source code defines all aspects of the form, representing the form design. The XML Source tab is hidden by default. Caution: It is strongly recommended that you do NOT edit the XML code directly.
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1. If you do not see the Object Library on the right side of the screen, click Window, Object Library. The Object Library appears on the right side of the form.
2. In the Object Library click the Text Field object. 3. Click on the form where you'd like the First Name field to appear. The new field appears and you can move it and resize it to suit your requirements. This object has two parts: the caption and the place where people will type information, which is referred to as the value. Caption Value
4. Select the text Text Field and type First Name. This text is the caption for the field. 5. To decrease the space between the caption and the box where people will type their first name, drag the boundary line between the caption and value to the left. Note: It's a good idea to assign a name to each object in a form design. Object names are used when adjusting the tab order and especially useful if you use the XML format to return information. 6. Some palettes may not be open in the Designer workspace. If you do not see the palette that you need, select it from the Window menu to display it. In the Object palette, click the Binding tab and type FirstName (no spaces) in the Name box.
Creating a Multiple Line Field (Comments) 1. In the Object Library, click the Text Field object. 2. Click on the form where you'd like the Comments field to appear. The new field appears and you can move it and resize it to suit your requirements. This object has two parts: the caption and the value. 3. Select the caption text Text Field and type Comments. 4. In the Object palette, click the Binding tab and type Comments in the Name box. Page 5 of 9
5. To allow the person filling out the form to enter more than one line of text, click the Field tab on the Object palette and select Allow Multiple Lines.
6. In the Layout palette under the Caption area, select Top from the Position list. The caption for the field moves above the value.
2. Click on the form where you want the radio button to appear. 3. Select the text Radio Button and type the caption Yes. 4. Click the Radio Button object in the Object Library and click on the form next to the first radio button. Page 6 of 9
5. Select the text Radio Button and type the caption No. 6. In the Object palette, click the Binding tab and type a name for the field in the Name box.
2. Click on the form where you want the check box to appear. The object appears and you can adjust it to suit your requirements. 3. Select the text Check Box and type Contact Me. 4. In the Object palette, click the Binding tab and type ContactMe in the Name box.
2. Click on the form where you want the drop-down list to appear. The object appears and you can adjust it to suit your requirements. 3. Select the text Drop-down List and type Year in School. 4. In the Object palette, click the Binding tab and type YrSchool in the Name box. Page 7 of 9
5. In the Object palette, click the Field tab and enter the list items. For this example, enter Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior in the List Items box by clicking on the green square with the plus sign in it then pressing the Enter key on the keyboard.
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Save In Specifies the location where you want to locate a file. File Name Enter a file name in this box for the form. Save As Type Lists the available file types for saving forms. Static PDF Form (*.pdf) Saves forms as static PDF, based on the Acrobat and Adobe Reader target version specified. Static PDF forms render once and are displayed on the client in the Acrobat or Adobe Reader target version. They are not rerendered in response to user interaction. The PDF form may have been designed with a flowable layout, but when the static PDF form is created, its layout is fixed and the resulting PDF form will not rerender on the client. Static PDF forms can be interactive or non-interactive. Dynamic XML Form (*.pdf) Saves forms as dynamic PDF, based on the Acrobat and Adobe Reader target version. The form design can contain dynamic elements. Dynamic PDF forms render on the client in Adobe Reader and, depending on the end-user interactions, can rerender on the client several times. Changes to the appearance of an object are possible in Adobe Reader because Adobe Reader has enough information to rerender the final output. For example, objects can change color, pagination can change, and objects can appear or disappear. If an end user clicks a button that adds a new row to a table, the form is rerendered in Adobe Reader. Adobe XML Form (*.xdp) Saves forms in the native XML-based file format created by LiveCycle Designer ES. Use this option if you will be using LiveCycle Forms ES. Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES Template (*.tds) Saves the basic structure for a form as a template. It can contain components and settings, such as fonts, page layout, formatting, and scripts. Use it as a starting point for a new form.
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