Expanding Text

RH7
WebHelp
I have an expanding text link that properly displays the
expanded text, except for the color of the text. Regardless of what
I do, e.g., change the color in the style sheet and even change the
color within the Expanding Text text box, the result is the same --
black text. What am I doing wrong?

Welcome to our community, weltverbesserer
Examine the HTML code behind your topic. You probably have an
embedded or inline styling that is overriding what the style sheet
specifies.
To check for embedded styling, look near the top of the file
and see if you have any code beginning with:
<style>
If you see it, select everything from
<style> to the closing
</style and delete it from the code.
After you have done this, click File > Save All. Then see
if things seem to display as you expected.
Cheers... Rick

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Expanding text java script

I got a java script from a coworker that allows me to click
on a button and display expanded text. The problem is, when its
clicked, the page jumps back to the top of the page. Any ideas?
Here is a sample of the code:
<a href="#"
onclick="document.getElementById('what_is').style.display=(document.getElementById('what_ is').style.display=='block')?'none':'block';"><img
src="Images/More.jpg" border="0" align="left" />
Thanks!!!!
PS- please be gentle, I have never used java script before.
:)

nst_21710 wrote:
> I got a java script from a coworker that allows me to
click on a button and
> display expanded text. The problem is, when its clicked,
the page jumps back to
> the top of the page. Any ideas?
>
> Here is a sample of the code:
> <a href="#"
>
onclick="document.getElementById('what_is').style.display=(document.getElementBy
>
Id('what_is').style.display=='block')?'none':'block';"><img
> src="Images/More.jpg" border="0" align="left" />
>
> Thanks!!!!
>
> PS- please be gentle, I have never used java script
before. :)
>
replace:
<a href="#"
with:
<a href="javascript:;"
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Expanding Text shows up as links

I have something odd going on. I use RoboEngine and publish
all my projects together. A majority of my projects show the
expanding text produced by using the Glossary Hotspot Wizard
correctly, but a handful is showing the terms for the expanded text
as LINKS. The color of the terms that are being displayed correctly
is red, the ones showing up as links are blue and are underscored.
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Hi Vick
I think what is working against you here is the simple fact
you are using RoboEngine. This indicates you are either using
RoboInfo or are producing WebHelp Pro outuput. I'm guessing that
you are in a very small minority. As such, there is simply a dearth
of folks experienced with your product.
Are you able to produce regular WebHelp? If so, does the
problem manifest then? Assuming the answer to both of those
questions is "yes", then maybe we can help. But until we do know
the answer, I'm guessing we are all assuming it may be something
simply related to using RoboEngine as opposed to being more generic
in nature.
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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

Expanding Text Glossary Terms into Popup windows

I am using RH6 and I have a help project that uses expanding
text glossary terms throughout all the topics. When the topic is
printed out, the glossary terms are auto expanded and it disrupts
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terms to just popup hyperlink windows?
If not, how can I find all the expanding text glossary terms
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Can they be searched for in a Report?

There's another way. Enclose your glossary definitions in
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Hello,
I am working from Robohelp X5 and have often been using
expanding text within my project. When im creating my expanding
text and hyperlinking funtions it appears to look the way i have
set it up however, after publishing my project some of the
expanding text are already open (cascaded) and some are closed. I
would like them all to be closed unless selected by the end user.
How can I do this?

When you apply a hyperlink to any size of text, RH will apply
the hyperlink style in the css stylesheet, which specifies the
character size.
The challenge is to apply your text specs after the phrase
that begins with
<a href= .................>
This is hard to achieve in WYSIWYG, because the RH html
viewer takes some shortcuts compared to the WebHelp output code.
Harvey

Expanding text in an auto-sized popup window can cause the text to overflow

First Topic includes a popup link. This includes rather long expanding text. When this is activated, the popup is too small to show everything, and has no scrolling possibility. Anyone know a workaround?
I tried to report this as a bug through the Adobe Feature Request/Bug Report Form, but it vanished into thin air and I can't check whether it was recorded or not...

Instead of an autosizing popup you could define a size that allows for the expansion or add some blank lines at the end of the popup topic, on opening there will be white space at the end but it provides expansion space. The latter will not work where the popup topics are long enough to invoke scroll bars.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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Expanding Text Style

RH7:
How do I assign a style to all glossary (expanding text)
entries?
Semicolon1

Expanding text is inserted via the DHTML menu, as Peter
indicated; that's why you can't select it from the Style drop-down
menu. You can't indent the paragraph for the style because
expanding text is designed to come immediately after a word. It
isn't a separate paragraph; the text is inserted into the current
paragraph. Because Expanding Text is a character style, you can't
customize any paragraph properties.
It sounds like you might find the Drop-Down Text style more
useful. The text is designed to come after the paragraph that
contains the drop-down link, so you can indent it and customize it
like any other paragrph style.

Expanding text boxes to multiple pages

I have a dynamic form with expanding text boxes that I originally designed on one page. As I put in the needed items it was clear to have it fit I would need to go to a second page to have everything needed. When it is the first page alone the preview pdf works properly automaticallly moving the overflow to the next page. When the second page is inserted to finsih the form the areas not fitting on the first page when typed into the preview fall off into space and you can no longer see them. I've treid moving around the heirarchy and have not figured it out. Does anyone know hoi to fix this? Is it possible to have a 2 page dynamic form that expands?

Sorry I have been on vacation and in Europe for a week so I was not able to get to this before I left.
The root subform (Page level) must be set to flowed if you want it to act the way you want. When doing that you can ignore the need to add the 2nd page and allow the product to break the page where it is needed. I modified your form so it would do this. Note that there is no Page 2 and I added some additional subforms to break up different parts of the form (Headers and unnamed subforms). It is good practice to name your subforms and if you do any code that was added may need to be adjusted to take into account these additional structural changes.
Please find attached the modifed sample.
Paul

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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

How to use that arrow/plus sign to expand text on a page...

Hi all,
I'd like to learn and find out how to use a symbol or icon or
whatever to expand text on one of my pages. We've all seen it but I
have no idea what they're using to do it, in fact I'm not even sure
what the correct name is! I was going to do a view source to try to
figure it out, but I can't seem to remember any sites where I've
seen it.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, thanks.

Take a look at the SwapClass tutorial from Project VII:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/swapclassmenu/index.htm
Their demo uses SwapClass for a menu, but you can adapt it
for exactly what
you're talking about.
HTH,
John
"jcbuche" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:fq7ac9$l8$[email protected]..
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to learn and find out how to use a symbol or
icon or whatever to
> expand text on one of my pages. We've all seen it but I
have no idea what
> they're using to do it. I was going to do a view source
to try to figure
> it
> out, but I can't seem to remember any sites where I've
seen it.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, thanks.
>

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.

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.
>

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

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