Requesting help-Schema creation and databinding

Question

We are using Livecycle ES 2, I am facing issues in traversing forms from one stage to another, forms are not holding datas from the previous stages.
The steps which I followed are,
1) Created schema to define the fields and data types
2) Created two new forms in designer , to which schema has been binded to corresponding fields(data View ->> Create Connection->> Schema)
3) Created a process, created two XML variables(xfaform data type has not been found!)  to hold the created forms
4) Form1 has been mapped to XMLVariable1
5) Form2 has been mapped to XMLVariable2
6) On process, in stage1 - Form1 should appear and in stage2 - Form2 should appear to the end user
7) in between stage1 and stage2, a setvalue stage is there to map the common data from form1 to form2
8) So in stage2, user will get form2 well binded with the data from form2
+ few extra fields for user inputs
9) To map the  data from form1 to form2, I am using "Location-Expression"
property of setvalue stage
10) "Location-Expression" is using the XMLvariables - drill down
XMLVariable2(/process_data/IMFormData/xdp/datasets/data) assign
XMVariable2(/process_data/FormData/xdp/datasets/data)
But, when the form reaches stage2, form2 doesnt holding the data from
form1
Please help me to sort it out.Also, please let me know if there any tools or tips with you to create schema in much faster and efficient way.

Answer 1

You do not need a schema (but you can use one if you need it). The form design is in fact a definition of the data structure. By default when a form is created without a schema the fields get Normal binding which allows data files with nodes and structure that have the same name as the field to populate those fields.
If you still want to create a schema ...you can go into the File/Form Properties/Preview tab and create sampel data. This sample data file can be used by many programs that convert an XML file into a schema. Just do a search in teh web for xml to schema creation and you will get many hits.
Lastly you coudl even use the sample XML file as the input file (Designer's Data connections allow for a sample xml file as well).
Hope that helps
Paul