Form Field Properties, "select all option"

A form with multiple field types such as text and check marks, having the ability to select all of a specific field type to make a properties change like "format" is very useful. In Acrobat 8, a document with say, 50 fields of text, and 20 fields of checks, you could select all checks or text fields to make a properties change without limitations. Please quit removing useful functions.

I guess you were using the specific Field Tool to access the common properties of specific field types. The Field tools have been abandoned (except for the Button Tool) in favor of the Form Edit Mode. (what I think of that is obvious knowing that my main tool for forms development is Acrobat 7… testing in 9 and 10 is OK, however).
So, you might still be able to access the common properties of specific field types by switching to the Form Edit Mode and selecting the according Field tool there. A kludge, works against the hands, and may have unwanted side effects, but a possibility.
It is a shame that we must beg in feature requests for fixing bugs…
Max Wyss.

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This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WSDFC888F9-219C-4b55-90E6-D316E2A85F08.w.htm l

I am working in Acrobat. I trying to create a form dealers will complete and submit. There will be no licensing issues. I have created a button and named it SUBMIT. In the Actions tab I have selected “Submit a form.” I have entered “mailto:[email protected]” under “Enter a URL for this link”. I have also selected “PDF The complete document” as the Export Format.
I saved the file but when I go to the Preview Mode and click the new “Submit” button, I am asked to “Save PDF as” from a menu. Even if I rename the file and click save, nothing happens. I am back in the Preview mode. If I click “Submit” again, I get the same “Save PDF as” routine.
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I am unabel to select all rows in advance table using Select All option

Hi all ,
I am unable to select all the rows in advance table . Select All option in advance table selects all rows present in working page but doesnt select the rows which we get by clicking next button ... i am having a requirement to select all the rows with a single click on select all , is it possible ..
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I'm using an adf table but i don't want to have the "Select All" and "Select None" options above the table. Does someone know how i have to remove those links?
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raki1221 wrote:
i have a dropdown list
i have to select all options from the list by putting one check box,i mean by clicking that checkbox i have to select all options.
If any body knows give answer its urgentThis is not UI forum...post it in Swing or AWT forum..
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However, when I use a different computer running OS X 10.6 and Acrobat Pro 8.3.0 it works just fine.
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Hello Gurus!
I have a question about creating a Java Script withing Acrobat pro. This is what i would like to do: I created a drop-down menu with several selection entries. Upon the customer making one of the selection entries, i would like for the correct fields that i created to become visible and all other fields to hide. Is this even possible to do? The reasoning behind this is because we have a form that customers have to generate in order to request access to certain financial accounts; we have over 20 different types of accounts and for each instance the customer has to fill out the same form. By creating a drop down menu, i can use the same form by just changing the drop-down selection and clicking on the designated fields for that selection. At this time i have over 20 different forms that poing to 20 different account requests and i would hate to send the form 20 different times to one person. The reason i can not add all fields desired for all accounts is due to the fact that the form would be filled with hundreds of checkmarks and instructions thus making the process too tideous for the customer. Hope you guys can help out.
~Vader

The good news is, it can be done (and it has been done).
There are a few things to be aware of, however.
The most important is that the form must be planned well, which means that you must think carefully about your logic and even more so about your field naming (hierarchical field names are your friend). One fundamental issue, you have to be aware of, is that this form no longer will be a "standard form". The consequence of this is that you may have to be aware that you might get into trouble when you have to prove that your user filled out that particular standard form (talk to your compliance and forms management people about that).
You also may have to decide whether the form should be usable in Reader. And, if so, how much you want to spend on the right to do so. You will see below why…
There are actually two approaches for dynamically showing/hiding parts of a form. If your form can be separated between a fixed first page (where you also have the account type selection), and a variable part (depending on the selection), you could use Templates, which you spawn according to the selection, and delete pages when you change the selection. This approach is very easy to implement, but requires Reader Extensions Server to allow it to work in Reader; Acrobat Pro's extended rights are not sufficient for that.
The other approach is showing/hiding fields. If you did your homework well, it would be very easy to first hide all subsequent fields, and then show the ones you need in two lines of code. This approach does not require extended rights for Reader at all, as long as your forms will always have the same number of pages, for each of your account types. This approach also works for the cases where the differences between the individual forms are very small. It does also work for showing/hiding bigger chunks of the form. In that case, you might create the "background" separately, and then put it as an icon into a button field which you will show/hide together with the carefully placed on top of it active fill-out fields.
There is a third possibility, which Adobe Propaganda probably would suggest, and that woudl be subforms in LiveCycle Designer. The consequence is, however, that you won't have PDF forms, but proprietary XFA forms instead. And you may have more developing and maintenance work than with the other approaches.
Back to your original question: you could use a Keystroke script evaluating event.changeEx of the combo box field. Depending on that, you would run your action to set up the according form part. The other way to do it would be evaluating event.value in the onBlur event. The latter would have the advantage that the selection has been made, and you get a bit more time to set up the form (this may in fact be an issue, particularly with Acrobat 9 and 10, which may take their time to show/hide fields).
Another possibility instead of a drop down (combo box field) would be a popup, where you would have a button to press, and the list of selections pops up. This second method uses app.popUpMenuEx().
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Max Wyss.

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