Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 Questions Go Here

You can use this forum for questions relating to Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8. LiveCycle Designer 8 is available as part of the trial for Adobe Acrobat Professional 8, and will be available in a standalone version in 2007.
There are a lot of improvements to Designer in LiveCycle Designer 8, but the main concepts and UI is the same. Because of that, we won't be creating a seperate forum for LC Designer 8, we'll use this same forum (which has been renamed to just "LiveCycle Designer".
If you have questions, please post them in this thread.
Thanks!
Mike

Just upgraded to Acrobat 8. My users are now receiving a warning when the form is opened in adobe reader 7.0.8 that says "WARNING, this form is not supported with the current version of adobe reader. Upgrade tot he latest version for full support." THis message seems to stay for quite a while, and is confusing the users who have the latest version of adobe reader.

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I am currently working on a PDF document using nested tables.
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Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.

Hello John,
We define data in the context area only. The defined data in the context area will be available in the Layout area in the hierachy model(Data View tab).
In the Layout tab, we just need to design the form.
Hope I am clear. Please let us know if you want more details.
Thanks
Ramakrishna

Out of memory errors shortly after saving Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Stuck in a loop. I am being forced to give up on a pdf that I put hours of work in.
I can open the document and work in it for a while, but one large text box will instantly crash the program if I select it.
The name of the text box is very long. This was named as the file was converted automatically with the acrobat professional forms wizard.
If I could delete the field i would but as soon as I select it I am hosed.
The debugger opens asking me if I want to open visual studio.
I have no choice but to just give up on all the work on this document.
I am using xp and no logs are written to the event view or in the
any files with the word log in it in the adobe folder.
I have adobe livecycle Designer ES 8.2.1.4029
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So I print word as a pdf, the open it in acrobat pro and run the forms wizard, then I can convert that to LiveCycle.
it works.
I have to get this project done, so I will go back to word and either reduce the textbox size, and thankfully I can copy the work I do have out of the corrupt pdf.
My question is, is there a way I can somehow delete the evil text box that instantly crashes the program.
Wow.

Hi,
Can you attach the file to the forum and I can see if I can delete the text box here?
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Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7

I am currently learning how to use Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0. My employer gave me the file to install a trial version along with pdf files with tutorials explaining how to use it. I am having trouble with the tutorials that involving scripting. Though I copy the script code directly from the pdf and follow the instructions. I have a hard time getting it to work correctly.
The one that I have had the most problem with is the tutorial entitled "Providing Interactive database lookup from forms." It can found at this address: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lc_designer_db_lookup_tip.pdf#search=%22%22providing%20interactive%20database%20lookup%22%22 I followed the instructions to create a new data connection from the mdb file provided. There was a script to populate a drop down box that I was able to get to work after changing the syntax a bit. However the script that is on the button to execute the query I couldn't ever get to work.
Here are the instructions copied directly from the pdf.
13. Select the Refresh object. In the Script Editor, choose the following:
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Whenever I click the button I received the following error:
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7250/errorbr6.png
Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong? Also does anyone know of where I can get good information about how to script these forms to integrate with SAP? Thank you for your help.

Hi Jason,
as you are using the Adobe stand-alone Designer and tutorials, you should direct your questions directly to Adobe (probably on their website) as the samples shipped with the stand-alone product do not necessarily work in the SAP environment.
For SAP integration, you need to install SAP NetWeaver AS(demo versions, for example, here in SDN on the download site) and use the versions of the Adobe components delivered by SAP. SAP also provides tutorials for the Interactive Forms integration in Web Dynpro.
Start looking at this topic on the SDN homepage at http://sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/interactiveforms where you will also find many links.
You can connect to SAP using the Adobe stand-alone products, too, but given Adobe's development partnership with SAP, this approach doesn't make much sense - and it is, as I stated above, a question for Adobe, not SAP.
Kind regards,
Markus Meisl
SAP NetWeaver Product Management

Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 Beginner

I am very much new to adobe form design tools. Now my company wants me to develop an eForms system using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.
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I have a vital form that clients fill out, which is passed to many people in the company along the workflow. The form is a Planner and we have in the following PDF, Word Doc..
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But I also have the PHP files created so that the Planner can be sent to by email to various people in the workflow with certain fileds ommitted they they do not need to see, but instead of the XML file beiong served up i need the filled PDF Planner to be served.
I can do this locally with ease on a testing server, but I am currently trying to use another host that uses cross-platform compatibility so i can use PHP and the pdftk.exe to achieve this, as that is why I am having to serve up an XML file b/c we use a Linux server for our website, and cant execute the exe.
Now that I am testing the other server (cross-platform host), just to use them to do the PDF handling (and it's only $5 per month) I am having problems with getting READ, WRITE, EXECUTE permissions..
Si guess a good question to ask is can PHP do the same procedure as the pdftk.exe, and i can eleminate it.
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http://www.andrewheiss.com/Tutorials?page=LiveCycle_PDFs_and_MySQL
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I use to have Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8

Can somone enlighten me...I use to have Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 and now, after downloading creative cloud it is gone. Can someone let me know why a program that I paid for as part of CS3 is now missing????? I need it back...

Hi Purple Rod and Tim Lumpkins,
LiveCycle Designer is no longer included with Acrobat XI, but if you were a member of Creative Cloud prior to October 15, 2012 you can get access to the last version released just by requesting it. Please go here:
http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_acr_livecycle_upgrade_en?sdid=KAXTG
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My Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES closes when I open it....:(

Hello all, I want to thank you beforehand for the help regarding this matter. I use Windows Vista and my Adobe LiveCycle Designer was working before but for the last week and a half or so I have not been able to get it to work! I have done scandisk/defrag/and have multiple software to keep my computer clean so I have taken those precautions beforehand. To the problem...:
My Adobe LiveCycle Designer opens up and it was working previously as mentioned, but when I try to open it by either opening or converting a form or creating a new form with a template, I am not able to as it gives me an error message and closes! It gives me an error message of "Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES has stopped working" and a screenshot of this is provided at the following link:
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Hi,
I have a few screenshots here that show Windows XP and Vista: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2226510#2226510.
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How to install fonts in Adobe Livecycle Designer

Hi All,
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I found in the installation of the ADS configuration Guide this informations.
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ADOBE LiveCycle Designer 8 - EMAIL SUBMIT BUTTON DOES NOT WORK

I created a new form in Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8, but the email submit button, nor a regular button assigned with a 'submit' function will do anything. It should initiate a new Outlook email but it does not. My default programs are set correctly (default email program and the default "mailto" program are set to Outlook). This document was created not only with ALC8, but on a Windows Vista PC with MS Office 2007. I ran a test to see if it would work on a WinXP SP2 machine with Office 2003 and it still did not work.
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Alan
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filename_dataset_0001.pdf
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Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES Error while Connecting to MYSQL ODBC Driver

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was really irritating.
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Connector /ODBC 3.51 and the DB Connection is working good for MS
Access( though i don't need MySQL Connector fot this ).
Any Help would be highly appreciated
Thanks Alok

Hi
I'm getting an strange error message when i try to connect a LC PDF form to
MYSQL DB using MySQL Connector /ODBC 3.51 Driver
Here is the complete detail how i was trying to build a connection
string :-
I Opened a form in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2 Ver.9.0.0
Clicked on Data View Pallete --> New Data Connection --> selected OLEDB Database radio button --> Build a Connection string (clicked on build button) --> selected MS OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (the default selected option ) --> clicked on Next >> button --> Use connection string (radio button) --> Build connection string on clicking Build button --> Select Data Source windows opens --> Clicked on Machine Data Source tab --> created a new data source (with User Data Source) --> Selected the MySQL ODBC Driver (MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver) --> Clicked on next button and then Finish
A Connector/ ODBC 3.51.28 - Add Data Source Name window opens up which have the DSN connection details (DSN Name , Server , user , password , database).
I put all the default details
After this i got a error message saying that
Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES has encountered a problem and needs to
close. we are sorry for the inconvenience
I tried this number of time and was getting this error message every
time i try to put the DSN Detail and trying to connect to the DB. This
was really irritating.
Can somebody's what's the Issue . Is this a Resource Conflict or
something else
P.S :- I am using Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2 Ver.9.0.0 with Windows XP and MySQL
Connector /ODBC 3.51 and the DB Connection is working good for MS
Access( though i don't need MySQL Connector fot this ).
Any Help would be highly appreciated
Thanks Alok

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I can put the list of employee names into an Excel spreadsheet or an Access Database.
I have tried following information posted in different places in the web, but I must be doing something wrong??
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Cost of Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES

Hi Friends,
1. I would like to know the cost of Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES
2. Yearly Maintenance cost for the same.
Thanks.

Hi,
you should contact Adobe directly with this inquiry.
This costs for the purchase and the maintenance can vary depending on the licencing you choose.
Start here:
[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/designer/[/url]

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I'm attaching screenshots I hope it can help you to understand me, in the screenshots I'm marking the table I generated.
My code is (Language FormCalc ):
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var aux
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                Table4.Row1[i].CellMesure.rawValue = xfa.resolveNode(concat("tblTable[",i,"].rowItem.frmHiddenItem.frmQuantity.txtQuantityUnit"))
                Table4.Row1[i].Cell2.rawValue = xfa.resolveNode(concat("tblTable[",i,"].rowItem.colDescription"))
                Table4.Row1[i].Cell3.rawValue = xfa.resolveNode(concat("tblTable[",i,"].rowItem.tblNetValue.rowNetValue.decHiddenNetAmount"))
                Table4.Row1[i].CellCurrency.rawValue = xfa.resolveNode(concat("tblTable[",i,"].rowItem.tblNetValue.rowNetValue.txtNetAmountCurrency"))
                Table4.Row1[i].Cell0.rawValue = xfa.resolveNode(concat("tblTable[",i,"].rowItem.colProduct"))
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endfor
Thank you very much.
Best regards.
Sincerely.
Ismael Lara

Hi Ismael,
as far as I can see there might be a mistake in the code itself. Did you check the tablerows you compare here?
I think you might have unexpected values at here:
tblTable[i].rowItem.colProduct.rawValue eq Table4.Row1[j].Cell0.rawValue
This might cause your unexpected result. Your results are never higher than expected, am I right?
~Florian

ADOBE AIR for offline applications or Adobe LiveCycle Designer Offline form

Hi Experts,
I have a requirement of recreating the XK01 Customer Master Creation functionality and host it as online application in SAP Netweaver Enterprise Portal. I have done this by creating a Web Dynpro ABAP application and embedding a adobe livecycle designer interactive forms (having same fields as required for Customer Master creation in XK01). In online scenario, the PDF form opens up in browser. In offline scenario, the user can fill up the form and upload the form using UPLOAD button created in the Web Dynpro application. There has been some performance issues like if we have too many dropdown UI elements in the form (having many entries in each), then the form takes too much time to get uploaded.
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Please advise.
Regards.
Rohit

hi,do you still need an answer for this question?
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Kind regards,
Anton Pierhagen

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