Need To: Keep Script Objects Unique to Specific Forms

We create xdp's and then allow users to 'stitch' these together forming one complete PDF.
These form's code check data entry, completeness, calculations, etc. One of its biggest features is that it highlights required fields (not the built in required field highlight) and conditionally required fields as needed.
Global Functions (using a script object) works wonders onimmediate form feedback to the user. However, when we combine 2 or more xdp's together, the script objects disappear - leaving the first form's script object only.
We need the script objects to stay unique to each form without 'dropping off' after stitching forms together.
Any ideas??

I would probably use a TreeMap that referenced the counter.

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We use Adobe Form Server.
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The script objects are unique to the form and are named differently (ie. "GlobalFunctions_8190" vs "GlobalFunctions_200878").
How can we correct this? Is it how the Form Server was set up?
Please help.

Just in playing with it, I added an extra ${endif} at the end of the network section and the error went away. Since I only have one network connection, I don't know if it breaks something else or not.

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I need to keep some objects around for the entire life of the server.
However would I make sure of that? In other words, how do I prevent them
being gc'd?
TIA,
Bill

Say I have a singleton. If it wasn't in a app server, I can, for example,
have it instaniated in the main and hold the ref there. But in the app
server, wouldn't such a singleton subject to gc since no one is holding the
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quite expensive. How can I make sure that doesn't happen?
"Philip Strube" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hi Bill,
Bill wrote:
I need to keep some objects around for the entire life of the server.
However would I make sure of that? In other words, how do I prevent them
being gc'd?same way as singleton instances are usually kept: in a static variable.
If you hot-deploy your application, but you don't want your mentioned
objects to be destroyed, put the classes in a jar in the server classpath.
If they are in your application's ear or war, they will be destroyed and
re-created on hotdeploy.
If you don't hot-deploy, you don't need to care about.
TIA,
BillViele Grüße ;-)
Philip

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Hi,
What seems to happen when you remove a form object that has code that is currently executing is that it can't find the next line. You might want to put all your code in the script object.
so in the click event you have;
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I mean, just because I have a fragment (which you can't edit the script for), why does Livecycle need me to NOT edit say the initialise event on the Main form.
Yes, I can remove my fragments, edit and reinsert. Also if the event already has a script, I can edit the xml. But neither of these are terribly convenient.
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The purpose of the fragment is to create re-usable or standard components. In most cases the fragment is not created by the same person designing the form and they do not want the from designer to modify any part of the fragment (it is a separate XDP file). There may be code in that fragment that relies on the structure that exists. If you have the rights you can always edit the fragment and when your PDF is created the changes will be picked up.
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In Acrobat Pro you can create a document script as follows:
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If you create button on the page then create an action on Mouse Up Run a JavaScript which looks like this:
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Thanks Steve,
It works without a hitch. Im still getting my head around JavaScript and 2 weeks, 6 hours a day of reading and testing and reading is slowly getting clearer I think.
Just to make sure Im getting this clear in my head. The way I had the script before was when it was applied to the field that showed the value it was referring to this as the field itself. So it worked not worries because it was point to the itself.
When I tried to apply the same script in a script object field (variables) that the whole documents can reference it was only in as a variable. The line form1.variables.setTotals.Totals(); did not do anything because it did not see the totals as a function and refer to it, and as a result nothing would appear in the filed. By adding obj to the script it tells the form that its an object and the objects formula is spei1 + spei2. This now means that the script can be applied to any filed and that is where form1.variables.setTotals.Totals(this); comes in. It tells the filed apply the object (Totals [spei1 + spei2] ) to this filed.
Does this mean that any script placed in the Variables field needs to be referred to as objects?
The reason I was taking this approach was to resolve a problem posted earlier.
I thought by having the script as a script object that was applied to the document rather than the field it would update the other fields that refer to it. Which I now realize will not happen. Could you suggest a conditional statement that I could put in to:
If special item 1 = $12.00 the result in the total = $12.00. If I then click on one of the fields in the special column say in Monday for example the result should be $12.00. If I then decide to enter another $12.00 in special item 2 the total will now be $24.00 but the Monday result will still say $12.00.
Is there a way to have it check that it the figure which may appear in the Special column, to update that result as well?
Should I be look at a message box instead telling the user there is a difference and for them to re-click on the Monday field to update it?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards, John.

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