Expandable response field help

Hi!
I'm having trouble with Adobe Reader X. For some reason the I can't exceed the space provided for the fill in boxes of a PDF file. Am I doing anything wrong? I'm using Windows 7.
Here's the file I'm having trouble with: (page 7)
http://vlns.ca/orientation/English-12-Orientation.pdf

Adobe Reader can't exceed the space.

Similar Messages

I Need help wrapping an expandable text field to the next page, while pushing a subforum beneath it

Hi, I hope I can get some help with this form that I am desperately trying to finish.
I am unable to get an expandable text field to recognize both 1.) the positioned subforum underneath and 2.) the page break. I'll attach the file if it helps get an understanding of what I mean, and maybe someone can see what I did to royally screw it up. The area of the form in question is on page 4 of the attached document. I want the user to be able to write as much as they need in the summary section, and still fill out the last section afterwards.
If more info is needed, let me know and I will do my best to describe what I did. My last solution I tried, before giving up, was to wrap the previous section, as well as the next section of the expandable text field, into its own subforum. Then, I nested the subforums together in another subforum.
Thanks in advance.
-Joshua
Attachment Link:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2iKKEocs4_gTTlwZEpHTWxZVkE

In case anyone sifting through forums, looking for the answer to this question, needs the answer: paulk07 was able to fix my document by unwrapping all of the subforms on the last page and then wrapping it in only 3 subforms (2 positioned/1 flowed) and then set the page to flow.
From there, I set the margins so when the sectioned wrapped to a new page, it didn't end/begin at the edge of the page.
Thanks again paulk07

Expanding text fields side-by-side in a 2 column layout

Hi,
I've been trying to create a form that is a 2-column layout. This form contains expanding text fields that are side-by-side with additional form elements underneath. I managed to get the expandable fields to work, however, if the user writes too much in the text field in the left-hand column and it wraps onto a second page, the text field in the right-hand gets pushed to the second page. I am wondering if someone has experience with this and could help me figure out how to make sure the text field in the right-hand column stays in place as the text field in the left-hand column expands onto 2 pages.
I've tried to wrap each text-field in their own subform that stays fixed, but that seemed to cause the field to expand over the elements below it.
Take care,
Carolyn

Luke23ae wrote:
for my bachelor-thesis I'm trying to create a 2 column layout in pages. The left column should contain all contents, the right column should only contain notes and additional information supporting the 'main' column. So the right column only contains a little text every now and then. Using the Layout Inspector and setting up 2 columns fills the right column automatically withe the contents overflowing the left column. What I'm hoping to archive is to create a 2 column layout leaving the right column blank, allowing me to insert Text-fields (unless there's a better way) wherever I need to add an annotation.
Hi Lukas,
Welcome to Apple Discussions and the Pages '09 forum.
Since you want the text to flow from page to page in the left column, it would appear best to use a single column for the main text, and to limit the width of that column using the right margin stop.
That leaves the right half of the page open for a series of text boxes (or shapes, as shown) to contain the notes and additional information.
I would start with a single text box or shape, resize it to the width you want, then duplicate that one each time you need a new box. That way all your text blocks have a common width to begin with, and if you take care to use only the handle at the center of the bottom edge to resize them, you will not disturb that width setting.
As noted earlier, the floating objects will not automatically travel with the text they apply to if editing causes that text to move.
Regards,
Barry

How can I expand text fields in my PDF file which I built in Forms Central?

I'm working in Windows 7 and just created my first form in Forms Central. I have many text fields that I intended for the end user to be able to type as much information in them as necessary. I selected the "multiple lines of text" setting for each of these fields. I was told by someone at Adobe a while back when I was trying to decide on learning LiveCycle Designer or using the much more user-friendly Forms Central that the form fields would not automatically expand in the PDF form, but that I would be able to click or drag on the fields manually to expand them so that, ultimately, they could be printed with all the comments, for however many pages it would take. I've exported my Forms Central form to a PDF file. However, when I type multiple lines of text in the form fields I set up to be "unlimited," I cannot get the form fields to expand. What have I done wrong? Help, please!

We are dealing with a similar situation. We have downloaded LiveCycle and created the form, but as we knew would happen, the changes that come for the content of the form are causing us to max our trial version, and as soon as the form needs a change outside of the trial time period, we are faced with the next dilemma, as Adobe doesn't offer to purchase a single license at a reasonable rate. The only reason we wanted LiveCycle was for the dynamic field feature. I plead with you to consider offering that feature in Forms Central. The other issue that we are having is that our users sometimes need to paste a table into the expandable text field. Is that even possible in Live Cycle? We don't at this point need the web-based functioning that Live Cycle offers. Thank you.

Transfer the response data from response field of a webservice.

Hi Experts,
I am working on Consuming the webservice in the Adobe Form,
My requirement is like i have to populate different set of fields from the responses i get from the webservice, based on the click of different buttons.
Say i have to populate Fields f1 & f2, if Button B1 is pressed, and f3 & f4 if Button B2 is pressed.
Hope i have made my requirement till now.
Now i have written the script to shift the data from the fields generated from WebService to the fields where i actually require the data i.e. f1 & f2 in the above case at teh "validate" event of the response fields from webservice.
but it always gives me some popup stating this field's validate failed, which should not be there.
So, any help from you that give me a solution that shifts the data immediately on the population of response fields wihout a popup, would be helpful and highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Amita

Hi,
Consider that you have three fields "f1", "f2", "f3" and want to populate the data in the fields "f2" and "f3" based on the value entered in the field "f1" through webservice.
So write the JavaScript Coding in the "Change" Event of the field "f1" for eg.
     var cURL = 'http://webservice';
     var service = SOAP.connect(cURL);
     xfa.connectionSet.DataConnectionName.execute(0);
and there itself after the above script write the other validations for fields "f2" and "f3" and populate the values to the respective fields.
For Binding to the respective fields: go to the field object pallete and in binding tab define the binding of webservice in the "Import/Export" binding at the Last.
And if you want to do any validations for the fields "f2" and "f3" then define two more fields like "hiddenf2" and "hiddenf3" and do make the presence of these fields to hidden and do specify the binding of webservice and after the JavaScript WebService call populate do the required validations and after that populate the values to the respective fields.
Regards
Pradeep Goli

Trying to add a flowable/expandable text field to the end of a form

I have created a form in LiveCycle Designer. At the end of that form, I would like a Summary text box that expands to allow the person who is filling out the form to type as much information as is necessary and it will all be visible/print when they are done. I have the field to the point where it will expand (finally!) but I have requested that the field allow page breaks (including all subforms it is contained within) but when it expands, it all carries over to the next page and doesn't allow us to go beyond one page of typing. Is there anyway to remedy this situation so the text will actually "flow" from one page to another instead of just carrying it over?

I appreciate you replying to my post and maybe this is just that I have never used the forum before but your reply said that you hoped the sample document would help me and I don't see a sample document attached to the reply. Am I missing something?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:32:12 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Trying to add a flowable/expandable text field to the end of a form
I hope this sample file solve your issue too.
>

Expandable form fields?

I am on a Mac and have CS6 with Acrobat X. I was going to purchase LiveCycle Designer but apparently it is PC only. I don't have a lot of time to learn or purchase a new program right now but will if I have to. Does Acrobat X have the ability to create expandable form fields? I am blown away at how hard this info is to find. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am fairly new at creating editable PDFs. I have been creating them in InDesign and exporting as interactive PDFs. Thanks!!!

Brooklynmc wrote:
Thank you. Is there a way to do expandable form fields on a Mac or will I have to work on a PC for the first time in my life? Is there a program that can do expandable forms on a Mac. I can purchase new software if I must. I am really trying to avoid buying LiveCycle (If it is even available anymore) and sitting at our PC station. I am 41 years old and have never worked on a PC. Thanks again!
It will cost you some money but you can run LiveCycle designer on Mac.
Here are steps:
Separate Hard drive to put the PC Partition on ($100 or so)
Software called Parallels (About $79.00)
Windows 7 Software ($2-300 dollars depending on version)
Live Cycle Designer (I think last I checked it was about $400.00)
Install Parallels on Mac and setup windows pration on the external Drive.
Install Windows on the external External Drive.
Install Live Cycle designer. On the PC Partition.
You can use the Mac Printer in Parallels to Print.
If you really need LiveCycle Designers features daily then this is the way to go.
Plus you get the oportunity get the joy of fighting all the Viruses, Worms, Trogans, Malware and zero day event afforded to modern PC's It will be as if you bought a you a HP, Toshiba, Dell computer.

Creating an expandable text field without a scrollbar

Hi All! Hope someone can help.
I need to create a flowable subform that will allow text fields to expand without a scrollbar. I have been researching the forums and have found this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2372965
When modifying the template above for practice, The fields expand correctly but when i make one from scratch it doesnt work at all!
Here are the steps I have followed in creating a expandable text field from scratch:
1. Open Adobe Lifecycle Designer and open a plain blank form
2. Take a "text field" from the object library and place it on the form
3. I noticed there is already a blue border (subform) for this document by default for the new form so I changed the content from "position" to "flowed", flow direction from "top to bottom" and checked "allow page breaks". Also changed the layout for y: autofit
4. I then right clicked on the text fields orange border and clicked "wrap in subform". I changed the content from "position" to "flowed", flow direction from "top to bottom" and checked "allow page breaks". Also changed the layout for y: autofit
5. Finally for the text field itself I made sure that "allow multiple linkes" and "allow page breaks within content" was checked. Also changed the layout for y: expand to fit
I still cant get it work am I missing something? Ive been twirking around with this for hours and this forum wont let me upload my example. Any help would be great!

Hi,
You need to save the form as dynamic pdf form i.e xdp and on exit of the text field only text field will be expanded.
But make sure the main form should be flowed and page breaks should be allowed.Textfield should have the allow multiple lines option ,allow page breaks,and auto expand height(Y axis) should be checked.
Regards,
ManjuVardhan

Retrieve Height of an expandable text field

Hi,
I have a table in a dynamic interactive PDF form. When the user enters text into a text field of the table, the field can expand over multiple lines. I want to know how I can retrieve the height of the expanded field so that I can resize other elements in the table such that they are kept in line with the expanded text box. It appears the height property (h) is always zero, and the maxH is also zero.
Any help appreciated.
Phil Rimmington

It's possible to retrieve this information but you have to use the xfa.layout model instead of the xfa.form model in order to do so.
By retrieving the h or maxH property of an object by doing
this.h
this.maxH
means that you're accessing these properties from the xfa.form model which
defines the objects on the form. This model, however, doesn't give you layout information such as the resulting number of pages in a dynamic form once data has been merged into it or, in your case, the actual/current height of a field which expands in height to fit its content.
The layout information must be retrieved from the xfa.layout model using methods that take references to the object whose layout information is sought.
In this case, we want the actual/current height of a field which is height-expandable. We therefore need to use the xfa.layout.h method as follows, in JavaScript:
xfa.layout.h(TextField1, "mm");
The first parameter takes a reference to the field in question and the second takes a string which identifies the unit of measure in which you want the height returned (the default is points (pt)). You can use "cm", "mm", "in", "px", "pt", etc.
Note that you shouldn't use xfa.layout methods unless xfa.layout.ready returns
true or else the information you get may be out-of-sync with how the form actually ends-up being laid-out.
I've attached a sample form which has a multi-lined, height-expandable text field and a button. Clicking the button will produce a message box containing the actual/current height of the text field.
Stefan
Adobe Systems

How do i expand a field in a line with 3 other fields when forms design will not allow

how do i expand a field in a line with 3 other fields when forms design will not allow it? I also want to shrink one of the fields and cannot do so.

It is possible that all there is not enough room on your line to grow the field. You can try a few things :
- Make the form width wider by dragging the right edge of the form or via the Form Setup dialog (File > Form Setup... and change the Form Width)
- You can make other field on the row narrower (if they are not already at their minimum width).
Each field type has a minimum width. What field type are you trying to make smaller?
For example : Text and Multiline can go down to a width of 30. Dropdown min width depends on the length of the long item in the dropdown list.
Hope this helps
Gen

File to RFC/BAPI - Async- How to capture response field value

Hi,
I am doing File to RFC/BAPI Scenario. I have Two BAPI's. THe same source xml file is mapped to the Two Target BAPI's.
For the first flow i.e File to BAPI1, I need to capture BAPI Response, field value and pass this value as Input to the BAPI2.
How do I proceed with the Mapping. I am working on PI 7.1
Any input would be Appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
Varun

Hi Varun,
apparently you need a Business Process:
XML -> BP (asynchronous), Map to Bapi1 request structure
BP -> BAPI 1 (synchronous)
Transformations step with multi mapping merging XML and Bapi1 response to Bapi2 request structure
BP-> BAPI2
Regards,
Udo

Expanding text field to allow for multiple pages

Hi all,
Disclaimer: Not a JAVA/programmer type. I typically Google things to death and try to learn from there. Created a form and followed some other's suggestions but I'm in a bind with expanding a field (text field) to allow for users to enter info and for it to print the full entry once submitted.
I changed the form to be sent using the email button to select recipients and as a pdf doc. I'd like to keep it this way. I created the form and didn't use a template. I just signed up and am looking for the button to attach the doc, created in Livecycle Designer ES with the hopes that someone could take a look at it. Can't find the attach button. If someone can provide their email address to take a look, that would be great.
Niall, I've been reading your posts and actually tried copying/pasting in one of your fields (re: subform as Flow, etc) but so far, no luck.
I selected all the usual variables for the subform/text box:
Allow Multiple Lines, Allow Breaks, Expand to Fit (Height).
Please advise if someone would be available to take a look and I'll send it to you. Thanks in advance for any recommendations/availability.

Hi Jeff,
Yes you can force the highlight colour on using the following script in the docReady event of the root node (normally form1):
app.runtimeHighlight = true;
You can also change the highlight colour, but this is a personal choice. Generally I would leave it at the default. This ways users are getting the same experience.
For the email submit, there are a couple of choices. If you use a regular button (instead of the Email Submit Button) you can script for custom recipients, subject line and message. There are examples here. You are probably better sticking with the example for versions of Acrobat/Reader v9 and below. You are looking for the last button. The script can be reduced to match your requirements.
http://www.assuredynamics.com/index.php/code-solutions/email-solutions/
If you want to share a form, you will need to upload it to a file sharing site, like Acrobat.com and then post the published link here.
You can use a regular button for the URL, so that on the click event the user is directed to Adobe's site:
app.launchURL("http://get.adobe.com/reader/", true);
Lastly you must Reader Enable the form before you send it out.
Good luck,
Niall
Assure Dynamics

Expanding text field & page numbers

Got a form with an expanding text field. Also have page # of # on the form. When the text field expands to multiple pages, it overlays (?) the page # of #.
Any idea on how I can not have the text field expand to cover it up ??

The colors can be adjusted ....if its blue on your machine that is OK.
Can you share the form with me so I can see what is happening?
Can you send it to [email protected] and I will have a look. Please include a description of the issue in your email.
Paul

Not able to find values in LOV of field "Help Desk" of Global contract

Not able to find values in LOV of field "Help Desk" of Global contract defaults.
This value should be coming from resource setup.
Resource is already created.

Issue resolved:
The resource should ahve valid Email id in HR People setup

Accessing Field Help from item on different Page

I manually created a tabular form used for posting and I wanted to implement the field help for the column headers. I have a seperate maintenance form that already has the appropriate help text stored for each item. I want to have my tabular form popup help get the help text from the other form. I looked at the code from the other form and it was doing this for the field:
javascript:popupFieldHelp('25020711860698767','439667227918056')
So I went into the Report attributes section of my tabular form and entered this:
<a href = "javascript:popupFieldHelp('25020711860698767','439667227918056')"> Security Type </a>
It seems to work perfectly, but I just want to make sure this is the best way to do this. Are the arguments sent to popupFieldHelp unique for every item in an application?

Sorry. Had to change the href so you could see what I typed:
<-a href = "javascript:popupFieldHelp('25020711860698767','439667227918056')">Security Type<-/a>

Expandable response field help

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for