Problem: Adding subform instances

Hello,
I'm trying to add some instances of a subform.
Therefor I added the Instance Control Button to my form.
I customized it to my form and tested it.
But when I click the Button, nothing happened. After 5 times, a message opened, that I have reached the limit of instances. But no instance is visible.
What could be the problem?
Alternative: Can I programmatically change the minimum count of repeats of the subform? It's possible that I could calculate, how much lines I need. So that is the second chance.

I solved my problem.
The reason that instances that were added did not show is because there were positioned subforms below where I was adding instances and they covered up new instances because they did not move.
I solved the problem by re-organizing the form.
1. All objects were put in a positioned sub-form. Some of them were in a subform by themselves.
2. Each positioned subform was wrapped in a flowed subform with flow direction Western Text. The flow direction probably doesn't matter here because the flowed subform has only one object in it.
3. The page-level subform was made flowed, direction western text.
4. The form must be saved as a dynamic form.
When I added instances, everything moved down correctly.
You can probably not wrap everything in positioned subforms first, but you have to account for LiveCycle left-justifying everything in flowed subforms by putting blank text boxes to act as spacers to keep fields in place.

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