IBM workplace forms to Adobe LiveCycle forms

Hi
I have been using IBM Workplace forms in my application for a long time and now want to migrate to adobe livecycle forms. Please can anyone tell me about how much similar are both? What all should i look out for while migrating. ?
Regards
Ullas

We are also looking into a similar type of project. I'm not well versed in the IBM software, but I suspect there is no utlity or conversion tool to automate some of the transition work. (ie creating fields and other common objects)
We are looking at re-desinging the forms from scratch.

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Standards or Best Practices on limits to Adobe LiveCycle forms as data input tools?

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It sounds like you need use the adobe schema in MII so the output of your transaction matches it.
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I've read in the "Best Practices for Improving Performance in Dynamic PDF Forms" that Adobe LiveCycle Forms can explicitly off-load the job of rendering a form onto Adobe Reader.
My question is, "Can Adobe Document Services do the same?" ADS is for users working in a SAP environment but it's suppose to have the same functionality as "Adobe LiveCycle Forms", so I'm hoping we'll be able to do this.

Well, I know it's possible, but I have no idea how you would do it in that environment. You may want to speak to your SAP support guys for that.
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Hi - I created a form in Adobe Livecycle and have a button on it to send the form via email. t worked, but only for those with PC. I could not get it to work with Apple Yosemite even with reader installed . is there a way i can make it work for apple /

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LiveCycle = XFA forms.
afaik - These cannot be used in Apple OSs.
Be well...

Hi - I created a form in Adobe Livecycle and have a button on it to send the form via email. the button did not work and i looked online and saw where you could change it to a regular button and enter the email for it to go. it worked, but only for thos

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Noted.
The LiveCycle user to user forum is across town at:
Adobe LiveCycle
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How to use Adobe LiveCycle Forms Standard / Pro to leverage features in Adobe Reader

Can someone please tell me how to use the Adobe LiveCycle Forms Standard or Pro module to leverage features in Adobe Reader? Do you also need to have the Reader Extensions Module?
The forms data sheet says that it is possible to leverage features in Adobe Reader but does not go on to detail how.

Depends on your deployment pattern. You can just use Reader Extensions if you're publishing forms on a site, if you need to prefill or perform other processing on the template then LiveCycle Forms is needed. If you want to render to HTML5 for tablet support then Forms Pro is needed.

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Try repairing your default PDF handler.
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Hi,
I have created a Form in Adobe Livecycle Designer ES 8.1.
The form contains 6 pages.I want to display the particular page by clicking the button. I have designed those buttons in MasterPage like header.
I am able to display the particular page. One condition i need to display 1 & 2 page at a time .I am not able display this scenario.
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form1.#variables[0].controller - (JavaScript, client)
var im;
var pageName;
var currentPageNum;
var dataStore;
var logLevel;
var history;
* ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
* Copyright 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated
* All Rights Reserved
* NOTICE: Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute
* this file in accordance with the terms of the Adobe license
* agreement accompanying it. If you have received this file
* from a source other than Adobe, then your use, modification,
* or distribution of it requires the prior written permission
* of Adobe.
* MVC Model 2 XFA Sample Implementation
* Created on Feb 22, 2005
* Author Herve Dupriez
* Email [email protected]
* Version 1.0
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debugLog("executeAction " + action );
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if ( prev > 0 && prev < pageName.length )
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// 3: debug
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if ( dataNodes != null )
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var currentElement = dataNodes.item(j);
debugLog("listNodes found " + currentElement.name );
if ( currentElement.name.substr(0,5) == "page_" ) {
var action = currentElement.name.substr(5) ;
setCurrentPage( getPageNum( action ) );
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Adobe LiveCycle Form Not Saving Data

I have designed dozens of Adobe LiveCycle forms and have extended rights (enable usage rights in adobe reader). My problem is that sometimes the form is not saving the data for end users. One of my end users even updated Adobe Reader, but still nothing is working and he is becoming increasingly frustrated. Any other suggestions.

Make sure all your fields have a binding set even if it is just their name.
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Hope that helps.
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Adobe LiveCycle Forms not opening in Chrome.

Adobe LiveCycle Forms not opening in Chrome.
Today, I noticed that if the PDF from is opened from Chrome when it is rendered from an IIS server using the following methoed:
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Response.WriteFile(""...file-path-name...")
Just Yesterday morning it was working fine.
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UPDATE:
This is a reported issue in latest Chrome Update:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333449
This is an update to give more details.
Following is the environment I use:
Chrome Version (type about:version into your omnibox): 32.0.1700.76
Adobe Reader: XI
Adobe Acrobat 9.5
Operating System (Windows 7/8/Vista/XP, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS): Windows 7
Extensions (type Chrome:extensions into your omnibox): SnappySnippet 0.4
- Adobe Reader Plugin is enabled.
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- All other extensions are disabled.
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See attached snapshots for more details.
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I have an adobe livecycle form, that will be rendered to java/j2ee application.
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This link has the minimum system requirement listed for Photoshop Cs5.1: Minimum System Requirements
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Read Only HTML Forms using adobe livecycle Output ES

Hi,
We have a requirement to display the adobe html forms in read-only format. got to know from adobe consultants that Adobe Livecycle Output ES has this feature. but i am not able to find out any services or components that would give me this functionality.
Is there a way to get these readonly forms using Adobe Livecycle Output ES.

Dear Dfoto,
Thank you so much for being so kind to spend the effort and reply back, I though my question was left behind the sun... but now I am very happy in deed.
To be more specific, the Form has 2 parts. The first part "Subform1" any one can fill and sign.
The second part "Subform2", only certain users can fill and sign.
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.
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after two days search on the above topic without results I hope someone here can help me.
The problem:
I have an Adobe PDF form created with Adobe Livecycle Designer that has a dynamic table inside it. The table Table1 consists of a Header Row with 4 cells of text and a data row Row1 with four cells each one having a Textfield Cell1, Cell2,Cell3 and Cell4.
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
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        <cfpdfformparam name="Cell4" value="4">
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        <cfpdfformparam name="Cell1" value="5">
        <cfpdfformparam name="Cell2" value="6">
        <cfpdfformparam name="Cell3" value="7">
        <cfpdfformparam name="Cell4" value="8">
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    </cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfsubform>
</cfpdfsubform>
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</cfloop>
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Acroread 8.1.2 unable to process PDF 1.6 documents generated by Adobe LiveCycle Forms 7.0

Our workflow uses LiveCycle Forms to generate PDF 1.6 documents with embedded JavaScript and XML. These PDFs work fine with Adobe Reader 8.1.2 on Windows; they display correctly, the interactive fields work as expected and the documents can be printed properly.
However, acroread 8.1.2 on Solaris is not able to process the same documents correctly. When we run acroread headlessly as follows:
cat xxx.pdf | acroread -toPostScript -level2 > xxx.ps
the resulting PostScript file displays a message saying "To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrate to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html"
I have confirmed that we are using the latest version of acroread for Solaris.
Does anyone have any insight into why this message is being generated by acroread 8.1.2?
edit: acroread is able to process other PDFs as above without problem. It only has problems with PDFs generated by LiveCycle Forms which include embedded JavaScript and XML.

Neha,
Thanks for the response.
We are running acroread headlessly since it is on a remote server that we access via telnet. Without an XServer session, I can't tell whether acroread is able to read and display the PDF files normally. However, we can view the PDFs with Adobe Reader 8.1.2 on Windows and the acroread -toPostScript command-line that we are using does work properly with other PDFs.
I will email you a copy of a problematic PDF shortly.
Regards,
Steven Dickson

Read/write xml data from/to adobe livecycle forms (pdf)

Hello,
I need some help reading xml data from pdfs created by Adobe LiveCycle and also writing xml data back to the form.
The forms have been created using PROD LC 8.2 and in the future they will be created using PROD LC 9.5.
I am using Visual Basic .NET to access the data programatically.
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I am quite new with this Electronic Forms issue and I do not even know where to start.
Thank you,
Ionel

Hi lonel,
Do you want an online solution?
I mean, it follows this workflow:
1. The user will open the PDF by clicking a link, and a server-side program will generate the PDF and prepopulate it with data from some data sources, and render the PDF to the client (Browser),
2. The user will fill the PDF.
3. The user will click a Submit button and save the PDF and Data on the server.
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5. While the user is filling the PDF (inside a Browser), there might be a need to perform some lookup on the server, and update the form parts accordingly as a result of the lookup process.
For 1-4 above, I have developed a complete base library using ASP.NET which helps you to perform the above.
You can goto my Google Workspace and you will find a bunch of documents, sample PDFs, collections and VB Classes. To best view them, login using some Google Account.
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1. Using a Web Service as a Data Connection. This is very easy if you have a traditional Web Service. I have used this method several times and will use it again if the need be. But, there is a problem. If the result of the Web Service is an Array of some Data, and you want to remerge the XFA to get the required effect after executing the web service ... and ... if there are some Drop-Down-List (DDL) fields, the bindings of the DDL Items of those fields will be lost. But, you can rebuild them (on enter event of the DDL Field) if you have saved them in the embedded XML Data.
2. You can update few (not many) fields while the PDF is opened (under the Browser via IFRAME) by passing the new field values using the URL Query String method. I have not done this, but I like this method, and I think it is cool. You need to write a server side code to ensure the the new filed values are passed back to the client using the correct URL with the Query String, and you need to write some javascript code inside the PDF to parse the URL and get the new field values and update them accordingly. See this as an example:
http://www.halnesbitt.com/pages/pdfqs.php
3. This method is very advanced and uses message communication ques between the Browser and the PDF (which is opened inside IFRAME element) using HostContainer object. This method will enable 2-way communication between the Browser and the PDF on the client side using javascript. I'd love to use this method one day. See example here:
http://www.windjack.com/WindJack/Browser2PDF/brwsr2acroJS.htm
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