Add Instance

In the first image below the user can click on "AC" to add additional lines for comments. When they have completed that they will click on "Add Line" to add a new instance of that line. In the 2nd image the 2nd line is overwritting the additional comments add to the 1st line. How do I position line two and additional lines to occur at the bottom of the additional comments (1 comment or 5+)
Also I need two more buttons
1. Will add line and copy the contents of the line above
` 2. Move line - Up and Down button that will allow the user to reorder the entries.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi,
The example has several tables, the last two have add, remove buttons, as well as move button and button to add rows directly underneath (add instance and move it in one click).
There is an example I did here for someone. https://acrobat.com/#d=HD6XJ1qofZDf713Yq1P43g. From memory the add instance script also copied the rawValue of the "Send to" object to the "Reviewer" object in the new instance. This should give you a direction.
When it comes to LiveCycle Designer there is no single source with all of the information. Some of the Adobe resources are extremely valuable, but do not make for light reading.
A good book to start out with is JP Terry's book on LC Designer, which is excellent - "Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer".
We have some solutions and blog posts on our website http://www.assuredynamics.com. We are trying to make some of examples more instructional. Also if you go to the blog on our site you will see some other blogs that we strongly recommend.
There is also a range of online resources. You may find these resources helpful:
http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_lc_scriptingBasics
http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_lc_scriptingReference
http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_lc_formCalc
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/Adobe_XML_Form_Object_Model_Reference.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/lc_migrating_acrobat_xmlform. pdf
And a very handy resource (and while it is for version 6 it is still very good because of the way it is laid out):http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tips/CalcScripts.pdf
The help file also helps with syntax and LC Designer comes with templates/examples.
Lastly, check out the Developer's Network on http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/
Also a book that doesn't deal with scripting at all but is very good on form layout is "Forms that Work" by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney.
The Adobe "PDF Forms Bible" is okay, but mainly focuses on AcroForms.
Windjack Solutions have a subscription based service for solutions and scripts at http://www.pdfscripting.com. It has a lot of AcroForm script that can be amended to suit LC Designer and a growing library of LC Designer solutions.
Hope that helps,
Niall

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Ok I had a look at your form (nice form by the way ...good job). The expression you are using to determine the number of instances is not correct....as well when you sum the salaries it is the details subform that has th eiccurance numbers so that needs the * notation. Here is the 1st calc modified
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Thanks for your reply..I made it happen using the for loop with Index and resolve node. However there is another issue which occured after that..I have a date/time field in that repeating subform instance.
The run time property is set to Current Date/Time. Now the issue is whenever i click on save, form.recalculate instance changes the existing time value in the previous subbform instance as well
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Actually I have several requirements. I have attached the pdf as this seems easier at this point.
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Ideally I would like to have just one box with all countries and be able to tell the pdf that certain countries have the characteristic “Online”.
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