Populating Forms

I'm new to Designer and I've tried doing a search but I'm not finding an actual answer. Can someone please tell me if you can populate a PDF form with data from an xml file. I played around with designer and I'm able to bind fields but I want the data in the xml file to display in the fields on the PDF. Any help is greatly appreciated.

With lifecycle designer create the template PDF form (blank form ) and save it as a interactive form. Create the data XML file in a format specific to XDP and save this file as data_File.xdp (or whatever name u like but with .xdp). In the XDP file, you can specify the template PDF file name. Double Click and open the XDp file- you will see the XDP data merged with the template PDF file.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Samant

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I need to make a dynamically populating form - I cannot find the instruction - is there a video on adobe tv? Please help me - I am desperate. Thanks a lot! K_S_

Hi..
I think you can do it with ADF .When you click field1 in your form get the value to bean using serverListner.And create method in AMImpl to filter records from TableB by passing your field1 value.make sure to add client interface to this filter method(clientInterface in yourAM.xml) and add it to page using bindings to as methodAction.Then you can show filtered TableB using popoup.

Track Multiple Pre-Populated Forms?

I'll do my best to describe the situation, hopefully it is understandable. I have created a form using LiveCycle. This form is save-able in Acrobat. This form has been filled out and saved for many different people; so I have the same form for each person, but each form has unique data already entered in and saved in the form fields. My goal is to send out these different pre-populated forms using tracker, have people edit them as they need to, and then submit the edited forms back to me (via Outlook email). My ultimate goal is to have the info that tracker makes available (the automatic list of who received the forms, who has returned them, etc.) available at a glance, so that I can track these forms easily. Is this end result possible using pre-populated forms, or will I have to send each pre-populated form to the form recepient individually?

I am sorry to report that Formscentral doesn't integrate with any external database and doesn't support the pre-population of fields. You might try looking at Adobe's Livecycle product for your solution.
Andrew

Help needed on Populating forms

Hi,
I am new to Apex and would appreciate any help regarding this.
The scenario is as follows: I need to have a form which can be saved and edited each time user logs in untill the user presses submit button. Now I have created a form (with text, radiogroup, checkboxes LOV's etc) which inserts the data entered and selected by the user to the database when he presses 'save'. But the next time the user logs in, I am unable to display the form with the previously entered data. How do I populate the database values to the form (As I mentioned before, the form contains radiogroup, LOV'S etc) ?
Thank you.
Regards,
Sumana

Hi,
Sorry for late reply... and thank you for sending the link...
Priyanka, I checked out the link... its fine... but thats not my requirement...
it is as follows:
1) there is login page...with login_info table and user_id as primary key
2)a form whose data is stored in a table with user_id as foreign key.
3)form has 2 buttons- create and apply changes.
4)for the first time...user enters data and clicks create.
5)when he logs in for 2nd time...the data he entered previously must be populated into the form...so that he can update it and save t by clicking apply changes button...
now how do i populate data of that particular user when he logs in? Do i use sessions?
And regarding automatic dml...its working fine...but automatic row fetch is not happening... So, i have written a separate procedure..by which i can now populate forms when i have hardcoded user_id...
how to do this dynamically?

PCR SPEG not populating Form and giving FormCalc errors

First of all we are running on Enterprise Portal 7.0, Adobe Document
Services on SP10. We are running the ESS and MSS business packages with
the latest Support Package 7. We are also using the Adobe LiveCycle
Designer 7.1 Patch 3.
We are experiencing a Script Error when we attempt to create a
Personel Change Request through MSS. The Manager logs in, navigates to
create Personel Change Request, selects and Employee and selects Change
to Personel Group or Subgroup.
The System displays our Form, except that there isn't any data populated
and Adobe Reader displays a popup which reads:
Script failed (language is formcalc; context is xfa[0].form[0].data
[0].#subform[0].DE.DEContent[0].ISR_TextEdit_DisplayOnly[0)
script=//Concatenate two charactertis for display: object text (object
#)//concat
($record.<characteristic>.DATA.FIELD, "(",$record,<characteristic>.DATA.FIELD,")"
Error: no expression encountered -- script result is undefined.
The form itself simply displays a blank for with tags
<Form Title>
<CI Title>
<Label> <Description>
<DE Title>
<DE Description>
To get to this point, we ran the report RSCLCCOP and did a copy of the
objects as described on Page 128 of the Business Package for Manager
Self-Service Documentation.
We then went into QISRSCENARIO set the notification to 56, and went to
generate the form ISR_FORM_SPEG. We selected generate form from SAP
Design, and then proceeded to click "Maintain in Logon Language" which
happens to be english.
I feel like I'm missing a step... any ideas?

Hi Tim,
The error - : no expression encountered -- script result is undefined, is simply because the script editor for the respective event doesnt conatain any active code.(all codes are commented).
For , data not getting displayed, you may check out the bindings for each field and the corresdponding layout for the respective form.
SFP transaction -> form name -> layout - to see the layout.
In layout, layout -> click on the respective adobe field -> object pallette -> binding.
check proper binding has been provided for each field from the context (data view pallette).
Do update, once you have solved your issue.
Thanks andRegards,
Anto

Saving a Populated Form

How can you save a form that has been populated by a user, so they can repoen it later and see what they entered into the form?

They need to use a PDF viewer that's capable of saving a filled in form. This means Acrobat, Reader 11, or previous version of Reader if the document has been Reader-enabled. You can Reader-enabled a form with Acrobat. For example, in Acrobat 11 that last thing you'd do before distributing the form to users is select: File > Save as Other > Reader Extended PDF > Enable More Tools
The menu item is different with every version of Acrobat, starting with 8 Pro.

Pre-populating forms with radio button values

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my action page is not being pre-populate with the value that is passed from the radio button selection. Can get my hands around what I am actually doing wrong. I have changed my code several times and can not keep up with any more. So below, I have included the main page and the action page that needs to be pre-populated with the data from the database. Thank you in advance for you help and time.
MAIN.cfm
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<cfset today = DateFormat(Now(),"mmmm d, yyyy")>
<cfset current_time = TimeFormat(Now(),"h:mm tt")>
<cfset application_name = "Corporate Intranet Directory">
         <cfset current_url ='http://'& #CGI.SERVER_NAME# & ':'& #CGI.SERVER_PORT# & #CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#>
<cfset current_browser = #CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT#>
<html>
<head>
<title>Employee Directory</title>
</head>

<h1>Employee Directory</h1>
<body>

<cfoutput>Today's date is #today#</cfoutput><br>
<cfoutput>The current time is #current_time#</cfoutput><p>

<p><cfoutput>URL of this template: #current_url#</cfoutput>
<cfoutput>Browser used: #current_browser#</cfoutput></p>

<tr bgcolor = "yellow">
<td>Search</td>
</tr><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="EmailAddress"
size="20" maxlength="100"><br>
<input type="Submit" value="Search"><p>

<cfquery name="employeeOfTheMonth" datasource="Directory">
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                e.LastName
            from
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<cfquery name="employees" datasource="Directory">
select
e.EmployeeID,
e.FirstName,
e.LastName,
e.Title,
                e.PhoneExtension,
                e.EmailAddress,
                d.DepartmentName,
d.DepartmentID
from
Employees e,
                Departments d
            where
            e.DepartmentID = d.DepartmentID
</cfquery>
<table border="2" bordercolor="blue">

          <cfoutput query="employeeOfTheMonth">
<tr>
            <th align="center" colspan="5">Employee of the Month: #employeeOfTheMonth.FirstName# #employeeOfTheMonth.LastName# </th>
            </tr>
            </cfoutput>
            <tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Department</th>
<th>Phone Extension</th>
                <th>Email</th>
</tr>

<form action="admin3.cfm?EmployeeID=#EmployeeID#" method="post">
<cfoutput query="employees">
<cfswitch expression="#DepartmentID#">
    <cfcase value="1">
       <cfset backgroundcolor="00FFFF">
   </cfcase>
<cfcase value="2">
       <cfset backgroundcolor="ff6699">
   </cfcase>
<cfcase value="3">
       <cfset backgroundcolor="99ff99">
   </cfcase>
<cfcase value="4">
       <cfset backgroundcolor="ffcc99">
   </cfcase>
<cfcase value="5">
       <cfset backgroundcolor="cc99ff">
   </cfcase>
    <cfdefaultcase>
        <cfset backgroundcolor="red">
    </cfdefaultcase>
</cfswitch>
<tr bgcolor=#backgroundcolor#>
<td><input type ="radio" name="EmployeeID" value="#employees.EmployeeID#"</td>
<td><a href="http://localhost:8500/spiderbytes/assignments/employee_details.cfm?EmployeeID=#EmployeeID#"> #employees.FirstName# #employees.LastName#</td>
<td>#employees.Title#</td>
                <td>#employees.DepartmentName#</td>
<td>#employees.PhoneExtension#</td>
                    <td>#employees.EmailAddress#</td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
<tr>

<td align="right" colspan="5"><cfoutput>#employees.recordCount# Employee(s) found.</cfoutput></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="Submit" name="Action" value="Add New Employee">
<input type="Submit" name="Action" value="Edit Employee">
<input type="Submit" name="Action" value="Delete Employee"><p>
</form>

<CFINCLUDE template="footer.cfm">
</body>
</html>
ADMIN.cfm
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Add New Employee</title>
</head>
<body>
<CFIF ISDEFINED("Action")>

<h1><CFOUTPUT>#Action#</CFOUTPUT></h1>

<CFIF Action IS "Edit Employee" OR Action IS "Delete Employee">

<cfquery name="DisplayEmployeeRecord" datasource="Directory">
SELECT *
FROM Employees
Where EmployeeID = #EmployeeID#
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="DisplayEmployeeRecord">
<cfset variable.EmployeeID = "#EmployeeID#">
<cfset variable.FirstName = "#FirstName#">
<cfset variable.LastName = "#LastName#">
<cfset variable.DepartmentID = "#DepartmentID#">
<cfset variable.Title = "#Title#">
<cfset variable.Salary = "#Salary#">
<cfset variable.PhoneExtension = "#PhoneExtension#">
<cfset variable.HomeAddress = "#HomeAddress#">
</cfoutput>
</CFIF>
<form action="query.cfm" method="post">
<table border="2">

<input type="hidden" name="EmployeeID_required" value="First Name is
a required field">
<input type="hidden" name="FirstName_required" value="First Name is
a required field">
<input type="hidden" name="LastName_required" value="Last Name is
a required field">
<input type="hidden" name="DepartmentID_required" value=" Department ID is
a required field - Please fill in the coorsponding Department ID for the employee">
<input type="hidden" name="EmailAddress_required" value="Email Address is
a required field">

<tr>
<td>
First Name (required): </td>
<td><input type="Text"
name="FirstName" size="35" maxlength="35"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Last Name (required): </td>
<td><input type="Text" name="LastName"
size="35" maxlength="35"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Department Number (required): </td>
<td><input type="Text"
name="DepartmentID" size="35" maxlength="4"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Title: </td>
<td><input type="Text"
name="Title" size="35" maxlength="35"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Salary: </td>
<td><input type="Text" name="Salary"
size="35" maxlength="10"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Email (required): </td>
<td><input type="Text" name="EmailAddress"
size="35" maxlength="35"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Work Phone: </td>
<td><input type="Text" name="PhoneExtension"
size="35" maxlength="10"><br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Address: </td>
<td><input type="Text" name="HomeAddress"
size="35" maxlength="50"><br></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<th align "center" colspan ="2">
<br><input type="Submit" name="Action" value="<cfoutput>#Action#</cfoutput>">
</th>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

<CFINCLUDE template="footer.cfm">
</body>
</html>
</CFIF>

Thanks for your reply. The radio button was placed inside the anchor so that when the user selects that employee, it will pre-populate the from base upon the "Action" selected (i.e. Edit Employee and Delete Employee). I quite sure this can be done with out using javascript. I know that I accomplish this by using a drop-down list, but I would like to use the radio buttons instead because I would have to change my code.
Here is the code with the radio button:
<tr bgcolor=#backgroundcolor#>
<td><input type ="radio" name="EmployeeID" value="#employees.EmployeeID#"</td>
<td><a href="http://localhost:8500/spiderbytes/assignments/employee_details.cfm?EmployeeID=#EmployeeID#"> #employees.FirstName# #employees.LastName#</td>
<td>#employees.Title#</td>
                <td>#employees.DepartmentName#</td>
<td>#employees.PhoneExtension#</td>
                    <td>#employees.EmailAddress#</td>
</tr>
Here is are some ways that I coded my form action is coded:
<form action="admin3.cfm" method="post"> OR
<form action="admin3.cfm?EmployeeID =# EmployeeID#" method="post">

Disable UI controls on pre-populated forms

I have a form pdf that gets populated from the server's data.
Once it has been populated from the server it does not need
nor should it show the Form UI controls. I know you can turn off
the UI controls in the properties of a regular PDF, but creating
pdf forms so that the server can pre-populate it requires you to use livecycle designer and there is no option to turn off
the UI controls in LC designer.

Hi Ian
You should use relative positions relative to SBO 's own controls. If you used fixed ones, the user could resize the form and it would of then been moved again. Yes, it will be slower without xml.
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Populating Form for Update

I will try my best to articulate this and hopefully not
confuse anyone:
I am trying to create an Event Update form that will allow
users to update/change Event Names in case one gets mispelled or
changed. I am bring the EventID into a set of Radio buttons that
can be selected and I would like for it to PrePopulate a Text Form
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EventID and Multiple EventNames or I get 1 EventID but cannot
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to the corresponding EventID to be updated.
Attached is my code for the Update page with the textbox that
needs to be populated but is not happening so far.

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I am no longer able to recieve populated forms from online apps

For the last few months mt online applications are coming to me garbled and no longer in the printable application format as irginally setup. I dont know why but the only thing I can think of is an update to Adobe broke the process somehow. The apps are filled in at http://mhdeals.net credit app link and sent via email to me. Once i click on the PDF attached to my email it pops open a security bar to allow once or add to trusted, it doesnt matter if i add or allow once it always opens the application but its blank. If i download and open with a text editor it shows the data that is supposed to be in the form. I then have to weed out the pertinent info and manual complete an app. It's frustrating because it worked for years and now it doesnt.

It sounds as if you've changed the format for submitting.
Can you open one of these responses up in a text editor, and post the FIRST FEW LINES. Check carefully that there's no personal info, just in case.

Populating form from Access Database

Hi,
I am trying to get the following script to populate a form. I have gone through recent threads. Here I have put in the single quotation marks around RedProject, however it comes back with a syntex error.
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$sourceSet.Red_List.#command.query.commandType = "text"
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$sourceSet.Red_List.#command.query.select.nodes.item(0).value = Concat("Select * from 02_Red_Hazard_List Where RedProject = "', Ltrim(Rtrim(form1.#subform[0].RedQuery.RedProject.rawValue)) ,'"")
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$sourceSet.Red_List.open()
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If I leave the single quotation marks out, (as per a previous example which works????), then the script burns "Error: open operation failed. [Microsoft][ODBS Microsoft Access Driver] Too few parametrs. Expected 1."
Any ideas please ;-)
Thanks Niall

Hi,
I am trying to get the following script to populate a form. I have gone through recent threads. Here I have put in the single quotation marks around RedProject, however it comes back with a syntex error.
if (Len(Ltrim(Rtrim(form1.#subform[0].RedQuery.RedProject.rawValue))) > 0) then
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$sourceSet.Red_List.#command.query.select.nodes.item(0).value = Concat("Select * from 02_Red_Hazard_List Where RedProject = "', Ltrim(Rtrim(form1.#subform[0].RedQuery.RedProject.rawValue)) ,'"")
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If I leave the single quotation marks out, (as per a previous example which works????), then the script burns "Error: open operation failed. [Microsoft][ODBS Microsoft Access Driver] Too few parametrs. Expected 1."
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Auto populating a form with Adobe Reader

Hi,
I have a few questions regarding fillable forms- any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Basically, I'm trying to make a fillable form that users can fill in with adobe reader. Within the same document, I need a page that will have several fields that will auto-populate based on the user responses typed into earlier fields. Is this possible to do? I haven't purchased acrobat yet, but if it's possible to make a form like this, then I'll buy the program. I know it's possible to do something similar in MS word, but I find those forms really clunky and they're a pain to use with locking/unlocking etc. Ultimately, I need a form that is very simple to use and can be filled in (including the auto-populate function) with just a basic adobe reader, as not everyone using the form would have acrobat. I also need some options for making the final auto-populating form aesthetically pleasing. Would acrobat do the job?
Thanks again for your help!

You might want to explain exactly what you mean by "autopopulate". The answer is yes, it's certainly possible, but may need some scripting depending on exactly what it is you want to do.
Regarding aesthetics, that's up to you. Normally you'd create the form layout in a program such as InDesign, Word, or whatever else you have available and use Acrobat to convert the source document to PDF. You'd then add the interactive form fields in Acrobat and set them up to behave as you want.
Note that you can download the trial version of Acrobat and use it for a while before you need to buy it: www.adobe.com/go/tryacrobatpro/

Could not getting field values from form

hi,
hellow, can you help me for solving the bellow problem
i have form its enctype attribute of form tag is setted as multipart/form-data. when i am submiting this form, i call a request.getParameter(); in the submitting jsp file. But for any controls such as text,checkbox,select box etc could not get its corresponding value.

Its obvious why its not picking up the change in the second action.
Lets see...
Here is your case I
You get the populated form which is also put in the request with updated value from the JSP....
(1)
protected Forward updateGoalObjective(GoalsForm form)
form.setGoalId(44); //int field set to 44
return new Forward("success");
You set one of the fields some other value....in one but how will the second action know about it???
You try to execute the second action and the action grabs the form from the request again. This is the original form submitted by the JSP so you still see that value...
You will have to pass in the customized or processed form for the form to be able to get it...
protected Forward showGoal(GoalsForm form)
System.out.println(form.getGoalId()); //prints 68
return new Forward("success");
In your second case you create a new form...why would you want to do that if you have a form value being set in JSP??
The answer is you should be doing something Like this:
* @jpf:action form="goalsForm"
* @jpf:forward name="success" path="showGoal.do"
protected Forward updateGoalObjective(GoalsForm form)
//other code
form.setGoalId(44); //int field set to 44
return new Forward("success", form);
* @jpf:action form="goalsForm"
* @jpf:forward name="success" path="Goal.jsp"
protected Forward showGoal(GoalsForm form)
System.out.println(form.getGoalId()); //prints 68
return new Forward("success");
}

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Hi,
I have a JSP called jsp1 that use a form called form1.
I use the next line in jsp1 to tell this :
<jsp:useBean id="form1" class="Form" scope="request"/>
In struts-config :
<form-beans>
<form-bean name="form1" type="Form"/>
</form-beans>
<action path="/jsp" type="Action" name="Form" scope="request">
<forward name="success" path="jsp2.jsp"/>
</action>
In the action linked to this form, I populate my form.
Next, I would like, in the second JSP jsp2, to USE THE SAME FORM form1, so that I can use some datas I have inserted in it after I have called the action of jsp1.
I hope you will understand my BAD english :)
HELP ME PLEASE, it is very urgent !

Maybe it is not very clear... I am going to explain it in another way :
I have one form that I use in JSP (init.jsp) thanks to this line :
<jsp:useBean id=3D"Form" class=3D"com.form.MyForm" scope=3D"request"/>
In my struts-config.xml :
<action path=3D"/fastsearch"
     type=3D"com.action.MyAction"
     name=3D"Form"
     scope=3D"request">
     <forward name=3D"success" path=3D"success.jsp"/>
</action>
Thanks to MyAction, I populate the fields of my form. I can access to =
this fields in success.jsp.
Here the perform method of MyAction :=20
public ActionForward perform(ActionMapping mapping,
                    ActionForm form,
                         HttpServletRequest req,
                         HttpServletResponse res) {
     (MyForm)form.populate();=09
     req.setAttribute("TempForm", ((MyForm)form));
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Now, I would like that when I click on a link in success.jsp to go to =
another JSP page (last.jsp), I can access to my populated form !=20
At this moment, I have=20
<jsp:useBean id=3D"TempForm" class=3D"com.form.MyForm" =
scope=3D"request"/> at the beginning of last.jsp, but it does not =
work...
I hope you understand what I want to say ;)

Is there a way to merge Static PDF files and PDF Forms

Hi All,
The issue I am facing is this: 1200+ PDF forms that employees
will need to sign. The docs are being created in MS Word, and all
have a standard signature block. We have prototyped using LiveCycle
Designer 8 to add fields to static PDF files (print Word files into
Acrobat, import into LiveCycle and paste in fields) but this is
pretty labor-intensive to use with a minimum of 1200 forms per
quarter.
The employee forms go into a CF8/Oracle library app (stored
as BLOBs) and served up for 7,000 or so employees to sign. Posted
data goes back into database.
Here is the issue:
Does anyone know any way to use some combination of cfpdf /
cfpdfform / cfdocument that will allow us to create ONE generic
signature block form, 1200 static PDF files, and merge them on the
fly?
<cfdocument> apparently does not allow PDF data to be
included with a <cfpdfform>, as I have tried outputting PDF
variables, toBinary(PDF variable), PDF served by <cfcontent>
and various other combinations.
(If the non-form data were HTML, we could easily output in a
<cfdocumentsection> of the cfdocument, and add the
<cfpdfform source="#genericForm#" action="populate"> and be
done with it. But, we can't.)
<cfpdf action="merge"> with a combination of a static
PDF file and a populated form results in a flattend PDF file with
no form data.
I am acutely aware that LiveCycle 8 uses the XFA schema, and
regular PDF documents use a different schema. And, this may
prohibit what we want to do.
If anyone has experience with CF8 PDFs and PDF forms, or has
any helpful thoughts, I would be appreciatively gross. Needless to
say, this is a six month project that must be live at the end
November.
Thanks!
Jim Bates
Verizon Business

As I mentioned on the other thread, the forms need to be
flattened. CFPDF cannot flatten LiveCycle forms, only Acrobat
Forms. The suggested solution was to use LiveCycle ES
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c052176

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