Dynamic Form Commenting

Hello,
I created a dynamic XFA form by LiveCycle Designer. I can not comment on form by using Acrobat. Why we can not comment on dynamic forms?
Thank You
Asiye

The big problem is how Acrobat stores comments. These are stored in a physical location on the page. If your form is a dynamic form, it has the ability to change and if the comment is anchored on a page that disappears due to the dynamic nature of the form, what would happen to the comment. As a result of this being difficult to engineer around, it has not been permitted as Bernd states above.
It would be a very cool feature though!

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Commenting on a Dynamic form

I am having a major issue. I own a copy of Acrobat 8 Professional. I have created a dynamic form with fill-in text fields, radio buttons and combo boxes. I need to initiate a shared review to send the form to several colleagues who only have Reader 8 to get their sign off on the form before we roll it into production. Based on that they need to be able to practice completing the form by using all the dynamic fields as well as use the Commenting tools to leave me their feedback. I have clicked on "Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader" AND "Enable for commenting and analysis in Adobe Reader". However, they are either unable to use the dynamic fields (can't fill in text fields, click on radio buttons or combo boxes) but are able to use the Commenting tools OR I get an error message saying that the security on the document doesn't allow them to do fill the form in. And, checking the security settings, sure enough filling in the form is Not Allowed. I am pulling my hair out! Is it simply impossible to use the dynamic features of the form while also using the Commenting tools? I sure hope not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

The big problem is how Acrobat stores comments. These are stored in a physical location on the page. If your form is a dynamic form, it has the ability to change and if the comment is anchored on a page that disappears due to the dynamic nature of the form, what would happen to the comment. As a result of this being difficult to engineer around, it has not been permitted as Bernd states above.
It would be a very cool feature though!

Commenting on Dynamic Forms

I have several forms that I have created in LiveCycle Designer. Some are static, others are dynamic. When I do any sort of comment (strikethrough, hignlight, etc) on a static form using Acrobat Pro, everything works fine. But on dynamic forms, although I get the options to comment on a form, nothing actually happens when I do so.
Does commenting on dynamic forms in Acrobat not work or am I doing something wrong?
- Nathan

For help with LiveCycle Designer Forms please post in the LiveCycle Designer forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/livecycle/livecycle_es/livecycle_designer_es

Dynamic Forms and WF

Hello,
I have designed a dynamic form, where user can add rows dynamically by clicking a button on the form, the form is working fine in preview in designer.
this form is initiating a LC WF process, but, if I deploy this form to form manager as an XDP and choose to render it to PDF, adding rows function does not work, however if I save this as dynamic PDF from LC designer and deploy it again to form manager, it works !!
However, I can not use PDF generated from LC Designer since I found that commenting and annotations are not working ( I am using acrobat ) which is an important feature, also, web services calls are not working even, again from Acrobat!
How can I set the form server installed with workflow server to render XDP templates into dynamic PDF forms ?
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Greetings,

By default Forms and Form Manager are configured to render a PDF as either static or dynamic based on some values in the XDP. By default those values will tell it to render a static PDF. What you can do, in Designer save as a dynamic PDF, then open the dynamic PDF in Designer and save as an XDP. Upload that XDP to Form Manager, the tags will be present to tell it to be rendered as a dynamic PDF. There's a better way if you are using Designer 7.1 and Forms 7.1, but since I don't know your environment this is a way that will work regardless of versions.
Annotations will not work in dynamic PDF's though. Currently annotations make no sense in dyanmic PDF's since the template of the PDF can dynamically change while annotations are bound to a specific location. IE: You have a dynamic PDF that is initial 4 pages and add an annotation to page 4. Later the template of the PDF changes based on data and user interaction and it is now a 2 page PDF, but the annotation is still on page 4 which no longer exists...
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Saving dynamic forms in Acrobat Reader

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

Thank you very much for your help. As I said this was my first attempt with Livecyle. I had sold the concept of dynamic forms to a collegue and promised to do a dynamic form one for him before going on a winter holiday. Completed the form in a hurry only to find I could not enable users with Acrobat Reader. My worry was that I would not be able to save dynamic forms without additional software, but your helpful comments confirm its something I have done that is causing my issue.
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.
Many thanks George for you assistance, I will retry when I return from my winter break.

Rich Text in a XML Dynamic Form

Hi guys,
I'm having a problem accessing the property "richValue" of a text field.
What I'm trying to do is get comments entered in a text field to be added to a list of comments(rich, text Field), similar to chat window. So each comment added (via a button click) will be formatted differently depending on other form parameters.
Using LiveCycle Designer ES to create dynamic pdf form, target version 8.1 or higher. Testing using Acrobat Professional 8.1.2 .
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Have tested:
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console.println("Comment: " + util.spansToXML(field.richValue));
]undefined "is the result".
Also tested:
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]"nothing happens, no error, fields don't change nothing"
OK is rich text supported in xfa dynamic forms?
My aim is to be able to take someone's comments, format them and add them to a list of comments (like a log of comments), via javascript.
Can anyone assist? It will be much appreciated.

send me your form,will try and fix it for you
[email protected]

Is there ANY way to keep track of changes or versions in a dynamic form, viewed in Reader

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!

No replies, so I assume that there isn't any way to do this at present. Do people agree that this would be a really useful feature?

Validation of multiple empty fields in dynamic form

Hi,
I have created multiple fields dynamic form consisting of both mandatory & optional fields. Since the mandatory fields are validated by default, I want to validate the optional fields while submitting as PDF document dynamically and prompt me to continue or discard the submission. Also validating each & every field is not valid option as my form contains more than 200 fields.
I have tried with the below script which I successfully used to lock the form but in validating the empty fields I have a problem. Although I populate all the fields in the form, still I receive the validation message. Can anybody help me out on this issue?
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break
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Jay

I discovered how to accomplish this using the Manage Dynamic Form Wizard and changed the "Display as" field property from "Text field" to "Text" for the fields I wanted read only.
Now I have another problem, the properties of one of the fields (for comments) was "Text area" when I changed it to "Text" I now have this extremely long line that streches the width of the browser.
Is there a way to get this line to wrap? This is he line I'm working with...
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Dennis
I found the answer to this problem, Günter had answered it in another post.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1875032#1875032
Dennis

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I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. Here's my code. Issue explained below.
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What I'm doing here is fairly basic.I'm running a query with a number of configs in it...and then creating a loop to output them. Ultimately, I only want the configurations that didnt have 0 submitted in the form on the previous page. Each one of the configs in the config query has a dynamic form variable on the previous page with a quantity tied to it. I am trying to eliminate all quantities past that aren't 0 (or not eliminate, just not show)...as you can see from the cfif statement.
Here's where it gets weird. You'll notice I output #form['baseconfig#reviewconfigloader.basemodelID#']#, just for testing, which shows me the quantity as it should. I ran a test and put in a couple of 1s, 0s, 12s, 6s, etc in the form fields on the previous page. If this thing worked, it wouldnt show anything for any of the records with their basemodelID value being submitted as 0. Not the case. It shows all records. What is more hilarious is that it outputs perfectly in my test #form['baseconfig#reviewconfigloader.basemodelID#']#, showing the correct numbers entered in the previous form, the 1s, the 0s, etc, tied to each record. But for whatever reason, the cfif code isn't catching it.
What's even more bizarre...I replaced the cfif ("form.baseconfig#reviewconfigloader.basemodelID#") NEQ 0 with GT 12 (12 was the highest number that I put in the form) and it still showed all records. Then I put it in as LT 12 and it showed nothing. I decided to take it one step further and put it in for GT 1231243242343 (random massive number), which it still showed all of the records. So somehow, my CFIF statement thinks that ("form.baseconfig#reviewconfigloader.basemodelID#") is a incredibly large number, although when I output it in the row below, it is the number it should be.
I'm stumped. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!

Hey Dan...thanks....unfortunately...with the cfif testing, thats kinda what I'm
doing because I dont have an "expected" value. My expected value is anything a user inputs thats greater than zero, hence NEQ 0 and NEQ "". The real problem is taht what I'm outputting works and what the cfif clause is seeing is obviously very different.
As far as your comment about looping out the variables and then setting a query equal to the value in a cfquery, remember...these are form objects and therefore nothing can be tied back to the database. The result from the code is establishing a form variable (example.... form.basemodel1 (if 1 was the basemodelID from the database query) so it can capture whatever data the user has passed from the previous page in a text input. So that input could have been 23, it could have been 1053.
So really the only way to do it is create a query and loop out the variables.... and attach them to form objects (basemodel1, basemodel2, basemodel3 etc where the 1,2 and 3 are the unique ID's for those models in the database), and then look for where those form objects may have been filled in in the previous page by stating IF this form object not equal to 0 or "", output the data.
Does that make sense? Thanks for the help guys I'm completely stumped by this. I've done this a million times with CFIF and I'm really struggling with why this isnt working....
JE

Importing data into dynamic form

I have not yet had a chance to work with LiveCycle, and I have been given a project which I need to determine if LiveCycle would be the correct solution. The client originally wanted this to be a Microsoft Word form, but I doubt that I can meet the requirements using Word.
I need to design a form which a user can enter multiple line items either manually, or by importing existing data. The data itself would be about 40-50 distinct pieces of data, in a block of several sections and multiple lines (i.e Name, Address block, Phone/fax/email, contact and comment section, etc) and would be a combination of text fields and checkboxes. There would be 2-3 of these blocks per page (with a static header/footer), plus a cover page with data fields for the organization using the form.
I know that I could create this type of dynamic form in LiveCycle to be entered manually, but I don’t know what options, if any, I would have in giving the user the ability to import existing data from an unknown source (could be a text file, a local or hosted database, excel, etc.).
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Can data be imported from a data source the user chooses? Are there any limitations to what kinds of data sources can be used? Would I need to program a custom function to allow the user to match the proper fields for the import, or is there a built in function to handle this?
Would there be any platform/application limitations? Can the form be used with Reader on a desktop computer (Mac or PC), or on a tablet (and if so, is a specific app necessary instead of the default app)?
Are there any other foreseeable issues I may have to deal with?

Thanks for the info. A few followup questions if you don't mind:
1. Needs to configure an ODBC-connection on every system it is used.
This form will be sent to our client, and they will send it to their customers. Can the connection setup be scripted, or is it simple enough that a generic set of instruction can be given to the end user to allow them to setup the connection and map their fields to the form's content easily?
2. Requires Acrobat or a reader-enabled from to use in Reader. Data is automatically populated in the form fields. Only xml files for import allowed. Allows to use XSLT to format imported data.
I doubt that the end user would have their data in a compatible XML format, so this option may not be necessary. Is Reader-enabling a form in LiveCycle comparable to the process in Acrobat? I have heard LiveCycle Enterprise is very expensive and required for certain functions, does this apply here? Does this require a specific server setup for these forms?
3. Difficult scripting to update field values automatically. Works in Reader and Acrobat.
The data would not need to be updated automatically, just pull current data into the form. This would be a one-way operation, there would be no need to update the data source from values within the form. I would still need to give the user a way to map their fields to the form.
Are you aware of any tutorials or example files that would help give me a start? I had a brief look at the LiveCycle Designer ES2 Scripting Reference, but I"m not sure which objects to look into.
None of these methods will work on mobile devices as there is currently no support of XFA in Reader Mobile.
Good to know. The same is probably true if I were to create the form in Word/Office.

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HELP!!! Can anyone please provide some guidance on how to create a dynamic form where selected text boxes appears, based on options chosen in a drop-down box.
I have a form which – based on the department that's selected from a drop-down box – will have different form fields/text boxes, etc, made available.
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Stuart.

Hi Stuart,
In this sort of situation, you will need to be a bit creative.
I would suggest a pipeline function called as if it was a report.
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Really easy one (I think). A have a dynamic form, which updates a dynamic list. Is there a way to alter a text area in the dynamic form, so that it is a fixed area i.e. when you get to the end of the line/characater usage, the cursor goes down to the next line rather than creating a horizontal scroll bar and running forever into the distance. I have played around with Wrap options without luck, the css doesn;t seem to play much of a part as this is an actual text area in Dreamweaver as opposed to a CSS clipping in the list.
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NJFuller wrote:
Perfect! Thank you Albert. Is it possible to add virtual wrap to a box in a dynamic list? As that is not presented in a normal html form'ish style way.....?
Hi Nathan,
as a Dynamic List displays pure text only, you´ll need to help yourself by formatting the displayed column using PHP. There are several ways to add "virtual" line breaks, and the most straightforward (though certainly not the most elegant) solution would be to apply the PHP function wordwrap which wraps a string to a given number of characters.
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