Connecting a LiveCycle PDF form to an Excel File

Hi folks,
There is some example or good tutorial about this subject?
Thank you,
Yair

This is a pretty good start. You need to create an ODBC connection to your excel file:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/designerHelp/index.htm?content=000553.html
Failing that - could you save your Excel as CSV and import it?

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Thanks.

Hi,
You should have a look at Stefan Cameron's site, which has many solutions for setting up data connections. Search for spreadsheet generally and here: http://forms.stefcameron.com/2006/09/18/connecting-a-form-to-a-database/.
However please note that if the users have Reader, then the form would need to be Reader Enabled using the full LC Reader Extensions server component. Extending the form in Acrobat will not work.
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Try flattening the form before exporting to Excel. You can do this via PDF Optimizer, Preflight, the following JavaScript that you execute in the interactive JavaScript console (Ctrl+J):
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A feature in a Paid level subscription (Basic and Plus) is downloading a PDF of the response from the View Responses tab by selecting any response row and choosing "Download Response as PDF Form". This downloads a PDF of the response with all multi-line text fields expanded to fit all the text the user input so it can be printed.
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~graffiti wrote:
No version of Reader can save a filled in form unless it has been enabled first.
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Before you deploy a form you can entend its functionality for users with Reader. If you don't do this, users with Reader will only be able to submit by http.
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