Best Simple Dynamic Form Content Practice

I have an idea for a form which has simple content subforms that I'm trying to put togther and I'm hoping I can do this in ColdFusion but I'm not that good at it yet to know what the best practices are to getting this done.
I have a form with a general question followed by choices with radio buttons. I'm looking for added form content to be displayed when one or more radio buttons are selected. For example:
What service are you looking for?
() Hair
() Nails
() Shave
() Wax
Then if somone selected "Hair", under Hair more form content would be displayed. For example:
What service are you looking for?
() Hair
          What are you doing
               () getting ready for a wedding
               () going on a date
               Do you need a
               () cut
               () trim
               () Style
                    () Mohawk
                    () Mullet
() Nails
() Shave
() Wax
Sort of like that with the added content adding to the form. I'm collecting the data in a simple MS Access DB and working with CS4. My server runs the latest version of CF.
Sounds simple enough but I'm not sure how to go about it and/or what the best practices are. Any guideance?
Thank you for any help in advance!!!
-- Dax

Hmmm. Actually, maybe using radio buttons is not such a good idea since I want subforms to populate for each selection and there can be more than one, even all, selected so maybe checkboxes. But here's the catch. What you're suggesting is that the user hit the submit button to return the sub form and that's not what I'm looking for. I'm actually looking for the functionality that the form itself expands with a selection automatically. In other words, user checks box, then the form expands with additional questions for their selection. Then when the entire form is filled out as best it can, the user submits the data. THAT's more like what I'm looking for.

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        <tr>
          <td>Straatnaam:</td>
          <td><input type="text" name="Straat" id="Straat" class='invul' value="<?php echo isset($_POST['Straat'])? $_POST['Straat'] : ''; ?>" />
            <?php if(in_array('Straat', $validation)): ?>
            <span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['Straat']; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?></td>
          <td>Huisnummer:</td>
          <td><input name="Huisnummer" type="text" id="Huisnummer" class='invul' size="10" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['Huisnummer'])? $_POST['Huisnummer'] : ''; ?>" />
            <?php if(in_array('Huisnummer', $validation)): ?>
            <span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['Huisnummer']; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Postcode:</td>
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            <?php if(in_array('Postcode', $validation)): ?>
            <span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['Postcode']; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?></td>
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            <?php if(in_array('Plaats', $validation)): ?>
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            <?php endif; ?></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Email Adres:*</td>
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            <?php if(in_array('email', $validation)): ?>
            <span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['email']; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Telefoonnummer:</td>
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            <?php if(in_array('Telefoon', $validation)): ?>
            <span class="error"><?php echo $error_messages['Telefoon']; ?></span>
            <?php endif; ?></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <p>
        <label for="Straat"></label>
        <label for="Huisnummer"><br />
        </label>
        <input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Verstuur" />
               <input type="reset" name="Reset" id="Reset" value="Wissen" />
      </p>
    </form>
    <?php else: ?>
    <div class="bedankt">
      <p>Bedankt voor uw aanvraag!</p>
      <p>Wij zullen uw aanvraag zo spoedig mogelijk behandelen. Meestal duurt dit 2 a 3 werkdagen.</p>
      <p><img src="icons/vinddit3.gif" width="220" height="80" alt="logo" /></p>
</div>
    <p>
      <script type='text/javascript'>
setTimeout("ourRedirect()", 5000)
function ourRedirect() {
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      <?php endif; ?>
</body>
</html>
and .JS
window.addEvent('domready', function() {
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          var form = $('comments_form');
          // if the form is found...
          if (form) {
                    // obtain error fields
                    var name = $('fullname');
                    var email = $('email');
                    var comment = $('comment');
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                    var isValid = true;
                    // input error function for the error messages
                    var addError = function (field, msg) {
                              field.addClass('error'); // Add error class to field
                              var error = field.getParent().getElement('span') || new Element('span', {'class': 'error'}); // add error message if not already placed
                              error.set('text', msg); // error text msg
                              error.inject(field, 'after'); // Insert error message after field
// detach error function used to delete any error messages and remove the error class
                    var removeError = function (field) {
                              field.removeClass('error'); // Remove error class from form fields
                              var error = field.getParent().getElement('span'); // find any existing error messages
// destroy if error message
                              if (error) {
                                        error.destroy();
// insert submit form event
                    form.addEvent('submit', function (e) {
                              // Test name length
                              if (name.get('value').length === 0) {
                                        isValid = false;
                                        addError(name, nameError);
                              } else {
                                        isValid = true;
                                        removeError(name);
// check email length
                              if (email.get('value').length === 0) {
                                        isValid = false;
                                        addError(email, emailError);
                              // check email validity
                              } else if (!email.get('value').test(/^([a-zA-Z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-zA-Z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+ [a-zA-Z]{2,6}$/)) {
                                        isValid = false;
                                        addError(email, emailError);
                              } else {
                                        isValid = true;
                                        removeError(email);
                // check comment length
                              if (comment.get('value').length === 0) {
                                        isValid = false;
                                        addError(comment, commentError);
                              } else {
                                        isValid = true;
                                        removeError(comment);
                              // If form invalid then stop event happening
                              if (!isValid) {
                                        e.stop();

lisavs12686 wrote:
Whould it also be possible to send the sender the submited data (looking like the filled in form or so)?
not really nessecary but whould be a nice jextra
You can but you would need to send it as an html email which is much more complicated.
What you would do is build a page/table construction like below. You would need to use the php variables to echo out the information in the <td></td> cells (example below).
$reply = $_POST['email'];
$from = '[email protected]';
$replysubject = "Auto-Reply: Website Name";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $from\r\nReply-to: $reply";
$replymessage = '
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Comments from Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 10px 15px;">Name: </strong>'.$name.'
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>';
mail($reply, $replysubject, $replymessage, $headers);

Page Number Disappesrs when click on Reset button in Dynamic Form

Dear all,
In dynamic forms I have taken Page n of m field outside the content area in master pages.I have added the reset button in body pages of the form.In the pdf When I click on Reset button the page nos are disappearing along with the other data.
I want the page no should not disappear.How can I get rid of this problem. If any body can please help me.
Thanks a bunch in advance
Regards
Rakesh

Firefox checks on the server if the file has been modified if you use the back button.<br />
If the page was requested by sending post data to the server then Firefox sends that post data and asks for confirmation.<br />
You can try to use the tab history of the Back button skip sites that require sending post data.
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.cache.check_doc_frequency

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[urlHi, I am currently having difficulty dynamically updating content server portlets. I have a portlet of the following form:[/url]
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story author3 title3 01/02/03
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I can set up the basics of this portlet, but when I try to add any real functionality I run into one of two problems.
First Problem: Passing Information
I cannot find a way to pass information between content portlets. For instance, if the user would like to "re-sort" this table based on "date", I would like to have the user click on the "date" column heading and then reload the page. To do so, I would have to pass the section name back to the page so that it could resort based on this data. I have not found anyway to effectively pass information to a content server portlet. I am building these pages through use of the presentation template framework (so I can have access to the content items) but that seems to change the way portlets are handled.
I got around this limitation with a regular portlet by creating an intermediary page which captures passed information and stores it to the session state. Once the information was in the session state, it is accessible to the portlet on the first page. However, this only works because remote portlets do not change their session id once loaded. Content Server portlets, on the other hand, change their session id after every reload of the browser or page change. I can send information from a content server portlet to an intermediary page, but I cannot send it back to the portlet because the session id has changed so I have no idea of knowing where to send the information. I can write it to a session state, but by the time I return to the portal page, the content server has changed its session id so it does not know where to look any longer.
I suppose it would be possible to create an application state variable and append it with some static token (if there is some static variable per portal session) but I would rather not have to deal with application variables if at all possible.
Second Problem: Dynamically Updating PCS Tags
Even if I were able to the pass information back to my content server portlet, I run into another issue. The easiest way to sort content server items is using the filter command in the pcs:foreach tag. So, if I wanted to sort by author name, I could do something like the following <pcs:foreach var="item" expr="filter(folderByName('content'), filtered.name == '"name")" or something like that (the syntax may be incorrect, I just wrote this off the top of my head). However, it appears that the way the presentation templates are compiled goes in the order of PCS tags THEN JSP. So I would have no way of dynamically changing the variable on which I sort. For example, if I clicked on "Date" above in my table, I would like to be able to dynamically change my code so that I sort on date, and not name. I cannot find a solution to this problem.
My workaround is to use the pcs tags to write out all the possible sortings to java array objects. This gives me access to the data on a JSP level and based on whatever the user will chose, I could then display that array. While this works, it is extremely ghetto and inefficient. Any help or suggestions would be fantastic.
Thanks a lot,
Jason Grauel

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However, you should be careful to name javascript functions and global variables uniquely so that they do not conflict with any other javascript on the page. To do this, you can append the item id to function and variable names, for example,
function doSomething<pcs:value expr="pcs_id"></pcs:value>() {
return true;
Randy

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How do you create PDF dynamic forms and save them so that they can be completed and saved in Acrobat Reader.

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I think Livecycle is a great product, but fragmented information is available for individual users. Bought the Book PDF Forms Using LifeCycle Designer (Acrobat 9) and joined PDFscripting web service which are both good in there own way. I get confused with Adobe's help, not being IT techie and the difference of Enterprise Editions of LifeCycle on how to get the best out of LiveCycle.
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Broken Delete button in Dynamic Form. For the ADDT gurus!

I have a feeling i may be at Günter's mercy on this one. Hope you have time to look at this; of course for any and all, the same applies!
I have a dynamic list which i spent quite a lot of time with - rearranging elements within the ADDT generated KT_tng table. Just moving one recordset piece can take up to 30 seconds, so it takes QUITE a while with a lot of data to move.
Anyways, i seem to have "broken" the delete button in mine. I hope someone can help me fix it, i really dont have time to redo all the changes i did to the dynamic list layout. (i did test as i went to make sure i didnt break it, but guess i just missed a piece..) I changed mainly the location of things, and CSS.
I have an older version where the delete button works. I have compared but cannot find the answer. Both versions do everything else, live, with the database & their respective dynamic forms.
I have all 4 files live, and unprotected, for now, and txt versions of all four. If you need to test anything with the live pages, its ok, most of the data is dummy data.
Ive been saturated in ADDT dynamic lists, and dont have a background of hand coder, but am learning a lot, quick. so i have tried hard to understand this exact issue i created - im not looking for others to do my work. just my little disclaimer :)
/* TEXT VERSIONS */
/*Broken delete button*/
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_list.txt
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_form.txt
/*Working delete button */
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_list2_.txt
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_list2_detailsl.txt
/*LIVE PHP VERSIONS*/
/*broken delete button*/
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_list.php
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_form.php
/*working delete button*/
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_list2_.php
http://www.aquatictrainingservice.com/admin/courses_list2_detailsl.php
best
ben

Include the following javascript code under the onClick event of the delete button.
It works for me.
onClick:
var x=window.confirm('Are you sure ?')
if (x)
do_event(this.form,this.name,1,'ON_CLICK','');
else
return false

How to print a PDF form content when i have the content

Hi SAPGURUS,
I have an urgent requirement.
I have the content of a PDF form in raw format and it is saved in some repositry .Now How can i create a spool request and print the form.
I can use the function module FP_JOB_OPEN and then gat the dynamic function module name and then close it by FP_JOB_CLOSE .
But as i already have the PDF form content i need not create it again by calling the dynamic function module.And i can't do so because both applications are altogether separate from each other that is creation of the PDF form and printing it.
Could you help me in guiding the way to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance
Sanjeev

Hi Sanjeev,
I have currently the same issue, please have you solved it?
Thank you
Tomas

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I need to provide a measure of content control.
I looked at acrobat.com for help. There is a rather convoluted method and I don't know if I can get my company to go along with it.
I have a dynamic form and it has to be dynamic, so I cannot change it to static to give it Comment/Markup ability - out of the question.
Does anyone know of ANY way to keep track of changes or comments or anything? And if you know, please be as specific as possible.
Thanks!

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