Change minitoc show/hide prompt in RH9

This has been asked regarding earlier versions and I am hoping a solution has been introduced since then. I want to change the default minitoc prompt that reads, in unnecessarily exotic English, "In this Topic Hide" and "In this Topic Show". I would like it to read, plainly and simply, "Show content list" and Hide content list".
Has anyone found a way to do this?

Excellent! Works fine. Just wish it could be a project default rather than a manual task.
My minitoc now appears as:
Contents -- Hide
·         Topic 1
·         Topic 2
·         Topic 3
Which will be clearer to my readers than:
In this Topic Hide
Michael West

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Line: 2646
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==
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="..\..\sty-std-topic.css">
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Show/Hide a column in a Table region

I have search page which queries the data and displays the records in a table region. We need to have an option to show or hide a non-database column at the end of the each row in the table. If the checkbox is selected, the last column should appear and if checkbox is deselected it should get disappeared.
I have used a transient attribute in the VO and using that transient attribute trying to show the text field when the checkbox is selected. For ex, if the search returns 6 rows - if you select the checkbox of the first row , the last column "CTS" gets displayed without any issues but if you select the other rows (without checking the first row), the CTS column is not displayed.
The column is getting displayed only IF you select the checkbox of the first row and try it other rows. If you try to select the checkbox of other rows without selecting the 1st row, it doesnt show the CTS column.
AM has the PPR event
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public void CheckOnClick(String v_chkBox,String SalesContact,Boolean executeQuery)
System.out.println("Enters Checkbox event()");
USSContactMainVOImpl pVO= getUSSContactMainVO1();
Row poRow[]=pVO.getFilteredRows("Chkbox","Y"); // get all the selected rows
for(int i=0;i<poRow.length;i++ )
Row rowi=poRow;
System.out.println("Value:" + rowi.getAttribute("Chkbox") );
rowi.setAttribute("CTSEngineer_TR",Boolean.TRUE); // transient attr
//end of CheckOnClick()

I just referred to the Dev Guide and understand that we can use the identifier of the PPR event source row (Page 262) but still the issue persists.
String rowReference = pageContext.getParameter(OAWebBeanConstants.EVENT_SOURCE_ROW_REFERENCE);
I have a rawtext as the first column( its just a dummy column since the PPR event is not getting fired if the checkbox is the 1st control/column) and the 2nd column is the check box which has a PPR event. The PPR event fires whenever the check box is selected or deselected but surprising the text field gets editable only if the 1st row is clicked.
Changed code is as always - not sure why the table shows/hides the text column only if the 1st column is selected. Will appreciate any help.
PFR:
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if ("OnSelect".equals(pageContext.getParameter(OAWebBeanConstants.EVENT_PARAM)))
OAApplicationModule am = pageContext.getApplicationModule(webBean);
System.out.println("The AM name is "+am);
Boolean executeQuery = BooleanUtils.getBoolean(false);
String str1 = pageContext.getParameter("Check_Box");
String v_SalesContact = pageContext.getParameter("SalesContact_qry");
//1401
String rowReference = pageContext.getParameter(OAWebBeanConstants.EVENT_SOURCE_ROW_REFERENCE);
Serializable[] parameters = {str1,v_SalesContact,rowReference,executeQuery };//1401
Class[] paramTypes = { String.class,String.class,String.class,Boolean.class };//1401
am.invokeMethod("CheckOnClick",parameters,paramTypes);
AM(PPR Event)
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public void CheckOnClick(String v_chkBox,String SalesContact,String rowReference,Boolean executeQuery)
OARow rowx = (OARow)findRowByRef(rowReference);
if (rowx !=null){
System.out.println("row ref");
System.out.println("reo fref"+ rowx.getAttribute("CTSEngineer_TR") );
rowx.setAttribute("CTSEngineer_TR",Boolean.TRUE);
Edited by: MyOAF on Jan 14, 2010 6:25 AM
Edited by: MyOAF on Jan 14, 2010 6:26 AM

Show/hide fields when selecting an option from a drop-down menu.

Hello Gurus!
I have a question about creating a Java Script withing Acrobat pro. This is what i would like to do: I created a drop-down menu with several selection entries. Upon the customer making one of the selection entries, i would like for the correct fields that i created to become visible and all other fields to hide. Is this even possible to do? The reasoning behind this is because we have a form that customers have to generate in order to request access to certain financial accounts; we have over 20 different types of accounts and for each instance the customer has to fill out the same form. By creating a drop down menu, i can use the same form by just changing the drop-down selection and clicking on the designated fields for that selection. At this time i have over 20 different forms that poing to 20 different account requests and i would hate to send the form 20 different times to one person. The reason i can not add all fields desired for all accounts is due to the fact that the form would be filled with hundreds of checkmarks and instructions thus making the process too tideous for the customer. Hope you guys can help out.
~Vader

The good news is, it can be done (and it has been done).
There are a few things to be aware of, however.
The most important is that the form must be planned well, which means that you must think carefully about your logic and even more so about your field naming (hierarchical field names are your friend). One fundamental issue, you have to be aware of, is that this form no longer will be a "standard form". The consequence of this is that you may have to be aware that you might get into trouble when you have to prove that your user filled out that particular standard form (talk to your compliance and forms management people about that).
You also may have to decide whether the form should be usable in Reader. And, if so, how much you want to spend on the right to do so. You will see below why…
There are actually two approaches for dynamically showing/hiding parts of a form. If your form can be separated between a fixed first page (where you also have the account type selection), and a variable part (depending on the selection), you could use Templates, which you spawn according to the selection, and delete pages when you change the selection. This approach is very easy to implement, but requires Reader Extensions Server to allow it to work in Reader; Acrobat Pro's extended rights are not sufficient for that.
The other approach is showing/hiding fields. If you did your homework well, it would be very easy to first hide all subsequent fields, and then show the ones you need in two lines of code. This approach does not require extended rights for Reader at all, as long as your forms will always have the same number of pages, for each of your account types. This approach also works for the cases where the differences between the individual forms are very small. It does also work for showing/hiding bigger chunks of the form. In that case, you might create the "background" separately, and then put it as an icon into a button field which you will show/hide together with the carefully placed on top of it active fill-out fields.
There is a third possibility, which Adobe Propaganda probably would suggest, and that woudl be subforms in LiveCycle Designer. The consequence is, however, that you won't have PDF forms, but proprietary XFA forms instead. And you may have more developing and maintenance work than with the other approaches.
Back to your original question: you could use a Keystroke script evaluating event.changeEx of the combo box field. Depending on that, you would run your action to set up the according form part. The other way to do it would be evaluating event.value in the onBlur event. The latter would have the advantage that the selection has been made, and you get a bit more time to set up the form (this may in fact be an issue, particularly with Acrobat 9 and 10, which may take their time to show/hide fields).
Another possibility instead of a drop down (combo box field) would be a popup, where you would have a button to press, and the list of selections pops up. This second method uses app.popUpMenuEx().
Hope this can help.
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Show/Hide Permissions on the upload iview

Hi All,
I wonder, if there is some way to solve my problem?
What I need is to add <u>Show/Hide Permissions</u> to the upload iview.
Do you remember, we have <u>Show/Hide Properties </u> on the upload iview, so that users can upload files and also add properties on the same screen (and they find it very useful). But if they want to change permissions, they have to return to the KM navigation and open permissions iview for the item. If I'll be able to add entrance to the permissions on the same screen, it will help a lot.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
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> they have to return to the KM navigation and open
> permissions iview for the item
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