Expand/Collaps Control in Adobe LiveCycle Desinger Forms.

Is there a control in LC Forms to allow Expand/Collaps of a repeating subform elements ?
Basically, I want to hide/show a list of elements (repeating subform) using a Control that looks like "+" (expand) and "-" (collaps).
How to implement this feature ?
Tarek.

WOW ... this is very nice .
I like your idea about using special font to get this effect.
This is the code I am using for Click Event:
if (sfAttendancesItem._sfTimeEvents.count != 0) {
     var cmdExpandToggleCaption = this.caption.value.resolveNode("#text")
     if (cmdExpandToggleCaption.value == "u") {
          sfTimeEvents.presence="visible";
          cmdExpandToggleCaption.value = "q"
     } else {
          sfTimeEvents.presence="hidden";
          cmdExpandToggleCaption.value= "u"
And, this is the code I am using for the Initialize Event on the parent subform:
this.sfTimeEvents.presence="hidden";
if ( this.sfTimeEvents._sfTimeEventsItem.count == 0) {
  this.cmdExpandToggle.presence="invisible";
And ... it worked.
Thank you so much for the cool idea.
Could you please give a link for all your sample work ... I am sure I am missing a lot.
Tarek.

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    I think I found a very strong lead to my solution, when I was playing with LiveCycle Desinger few days ago.
    On the Singature Field Advanced Setting, there is a place you can attach the public part of a certificate (Digital Signature) of any user, one or more.
    In this part, you tell LC that only those users "signing parties" can sign the field. I tested it and it worked.
    Now, if I can use this feature via JavaScript to find out if the user who is filling the form, can sign this field, then he can fill the form. If he cannot sign the field, then he cannot fill the form. I can do that by setting the "access" property of the Subform. Another solution is that I can prevent the user from hitting the "Submit" button unless he signes the designated Signature Field.
    I have another small issue:
    I found out that if the Signature field is part of a repeating dynamic Subform, it will not work during run-time. Very bad in deed. While I cannot understand why ?, I tool this as "By Desing" feature.
    Now, if the Signature is locking parts of forms which has dynamic content (repeating subforms), it will always show somthing like "Signature is corrupted or form was changed after it was signed".
    Is this normal ? Is there a way to control Dynamic Forms using Digital Signatures without such annoying issues ?
    Thank you.

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