Adobe LiveCycle ES-document date expiration

Can LiveCycle ES set a date for a document to expire?

There is a component of LiveCycle called Rights Management (used to be called Policy server) where you can set a policy on a document where the user has to authenticate to open the doc. You can set an expiry date on the doc so that even if the user enters the correct information it will not open. You can also display a link pointing to a new doc or simply put a message up exlaining that the doc has expired.

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Jamie

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at the moment I'm "learning" how to create interactive forms with the Adobe LiveCycle Designer. I hope anyone already did something like that too and can help me a bit?!
Creating forms with XML data in the background etc. is not that problem. Also using little schemas to provide data to a dropdown list - I fand that no trouble. But now I want to request some dynamic data from an external data provider.
I have a nice book from SAP Press laying next to me that tells me how to create a webservice based on a BAPI in SAP and how that webservice delivers some table data. But before I try to get data out of SAP, I would like to retrieve data by using MII (12.0 at first). I already built a transaction that creates some XML and imported the WSDLGen as a new data connection in Adobe LC Designer. No problem so far. I can execute it and I get some data back. But the XML that comes back is not formatted as table data as expected from Adobe LC so I can't build a table from it. I only receive the first dataset - every value as a single value, not as a table or row.
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Edited by: Anika Delzeit on Feb 3, 2010 12:21 PM

It sounds like you need use the adobe schema in MII so the output of your transaction matches it.
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Adobe LiveCycle Designer Document?

Hi to all,
I need some useful documents for Adobe LiveCycle Designer... From the basic...
*Points will be rewarded for useful links...
GS

Hi,
Hope these links will help u
Design Concepts of Adobe Interactive Forms Using Web Dynpro Java ( Adobe Live Cycle Designer 7.1 )
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0401535-f81c-2a10-0192-ffd41e8e8d59
Documentation and Samples for Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1
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Online Interactive Forms
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2b6db1c4-0801-0010-faa5-ff4b4df55b45
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Iv'e created a custom report and has difficulty in formatting the DateTime fields where I wanted to show "EST" timezone but the report is setting it to "GMT". I'm not sure where to configure the timezone in Adobe LiveCycle when the data that I'm using already has an EST timezone. This is the pattern that I'm using date{MMM D, YYYY} time{h:MM:SS A Z}. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.
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I need some help reading xml data from pdfs created by Adobe LiveCycle and also writing xml data back to the form.
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I am using Visual Basic .NET to access the data programatically.
Can anyone help me with some hints? A library, SDK? Any information would be very helpful.
I am quite new with this Electronic Forms issue and I do not even know where to start.
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Hi lonel,
Do you want an online solution?
I mean, it follows this workflow:
1. The user will open the PDF by clicking a link, and a server-side program will generate the PDF and prepopulate it with data from some data sources, and render the PDF to the client (Browser),
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5. While the user is filling the PDF (inside a Browser), there might be a need to perform some lookup on the server, and update the form parts accordingly as a result of the lookup process.
For 1-4 above, I have developed a complete base library using ASP.NET which helps you to perform the above.
You can goto my Google Workspace and you will find a bunch of documents, sample PDFs, collections and VB Classes. To best view them, login using some Google Account.
For point 4 above, one way to perform this effect, is to regenerate the required XML Data (which has the saved data before and the new lookup data), remerge the entire XML result with and empty PDF Form, and render the XFA (PDF Form) back to the client. But, if the PDF has one or more signatures, it will not work. So, in this case, you can update the Form Fields of a Saved PDF Form with new Data from the server, but the net effect is that you will have to loose all the signatures that were added on the PDF before.
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2. You can update few (not many) fields while the PDF is opened (under the Browser via IFRAME) by passing the new field values using the URL Query String method. I have not done this, but I like this method, and I think it is cool. You need to write a server side code to ensure the the new filed values are passed back to the client using the correct URL with the Query String, and you need to write some javascript code inside the PDF to parse the URL and get the new field values and update them accordingly. See this as an example:
http://www.halnesbitt.com/pages/pdfqs.php
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http://www.windjack.com/WindJack/Browser2PDF/brwsr2acroJS.htm
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Tarek.

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