Grouping issue- LiveCycle Designer 7.0

Question

Hello,
We are trying for the past few days to create a dynamic PDF that uses an XML Data source to parse and display grouped information, We have taken a look at the samples but none of them seem to be helpful in this case.
For ex.
If we have a XML data source like:
  1
  john
  smith
  1
  jane
  smith
  2
  mike
  jones
  2
  michelle
  jones
We would want the output PDF to display a table with grouped information like below
LOCATION NO:1         
First Name | Last Name | 
John       | Smith     |
Jane       | Smith     |
LOCATION NO:2         
First Name | Last Name | 
Mike       | Jones     |
Michelle   | Jones     |
We have tried to create the above using SubForms, but have been so far unsuccessful, any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Prem

Answer 1

Well I'm fairly new to this kind of thing still but here is what I came up with after playing around with it. There may be a better solution but here is what I came up with.
I built a subform named "record". Inside that subform I build 3 more subforms. The first subform named "Location" contains a text field named loc_no. The next subform named "Titles" contains a couple of static text fields that I used as labels for "First name" and "Second name". The last subform named "Names" contains two text fields named "fname" and "lname". I specified all of the subforms to repeat and set the minimum occurances to 1.
Here is what my xml file looks like that will bring the data in to the fields and add as many subforms as there is data.
1
FIRST 1
LAST 1
FIRST 2
LAST 2
FIRST 3
LAST 3
FIRST 4
LAST 4
2
FIRST 1
LAST 1
FIRST 2
LAST 2
FIRST 3
LAST 3
I suppose you could do this with a table if you have Designer 7.1 but not everyone has it so I did this with subforms and fields arranged to make a table like design.
Just playing around with the xml data file I have added more names and location numbers and then imported the data into the form opened up in Acrobat to see how it works. I have even specified the xml data file to be the default data file when viewing the form in PDF Preview.
Steven