Specify the name of a field in FormsCentral

Hi,
I would like to make a PDF form using FormsCentral. I then want to be able to auto-fill that PDF file using an XFDF file. In order to efficiently do that I need to be able to change the names FormsCentral assigns to fields. Is this possible?
Currently, if I have a field with a label like 'Full Name', FormsCentral will assign a field name like 'Full Name_dflgkjh430987fdg489745' and I then have to go into a 3rd party editor and change them to logical things like 'fullName'. This is a real pain as I have to re-do it every time the FormsCentral file is edited.
This seems like such a simple request but FormsCentral seems to have no options to do anything like this. Am I missing something?
Help would be much appreciated!

Hello Joan:
If you mean the label of the form you can do with CTR + Double Click.
Remember not to change the integrity of the database. Is only allowed to user fields
make changes at the level of views, stored procedures, among others, which do not compromise the integrity of
data.
Remember, even if they change the label, has changed the field name in the database, only the presentation
the form.
Edwin Mauricio Nieto Leó

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How to get the name of a field without specifying it as a string (somehow v

Is it possible to get the name of a field (or method) somehow via the class in which it is declared?
The reason why I ask is, that quite often the name of a field is important, because the name is the anchor for further processing, like for example when using reflection (e.g. Class.getfield(NameOfTheField)).
Assume you have class FooSimple with the field String firstName.
Now you would do something like this:
Class<FooSimple> cls = FooSimple.class;
Field f = cls.getField("firstName");
The problem is, that the string firstName is kind of hard coded. When the name of the field in class FooSimple changes (e.g. to theFirstName), the invocation will not work anymore when you forget to change the string too.
I think it would be very helpful to have access to the name of the field directly via the class by doing something like this.
Class<FooSimple> cls = FooSimple.class;
Field f = cls.getField(FooSimple.firstName.fieldName);
The Java Compiler would then resolve FooSimple.firstName.fieldName to the string firstName. When later the name of the field is changed, the IDE would change the name everywhere where it is used. So if the name of the field would be changed to theFirstName the IDE would also change the statement to
Class<FooSimple> cls = FooSimple.class;
Field f = cls.getField(FooSimple.theFirstName.fieldName);
A technique like this would be in my opinion much more safety and more generic.
Any ideas?
Best Regards.

Well, I think the discussion is going in a wrong direction because the original issue was not to discuss if it is worth coding some helper classes or a framework or that like. Let me bring it back to my original point.
Basically you can reduce my original question to this:
Currently it is possible to use the reflection API on a class level without specifying the name of the class with a string constant.
My issue is, that I think it would be a nice extension for Java, if the same would be possible for field variables of a Java class. Currently the only way you can do this is by specifying the field variable with a string constant.
Let me bring some motivations which brought me to this issue.
Assume you have an entity bean which represents a DB table and you use Java Persistence (either JPA or something like Hibernate). Then you would have a class looking like this (very simple sample to make this reply shorter).
@Entity
@Table(name = "PERSON")
public class Person implements Serializable {
@Column(name = "NAME")
private String name;
// constructor, getter, setter, etc. not listed here
}The whole issue of the design of JPA is, that such entity beans represent the mapping between the object model and the DB model, the mapping is expressed with annotations.
Okay, now lets assume you write a query in Query Language, e.g.
String sql = select p from Person p where name = :name;name is the name of the field variable, :name is the parameter you later set with Query.setParameter method.
What is not so nice is the fact, that you use the name of the class and the name of the field variables hardcoded to construct the query. Now you could think that basically this information is part of your entity class. First you start with the name of the class (i.e. the table name) to decouple this hardcoding.
You could write instead:
String sql = select p from + Person.class.getSimpleName() + p where name = :name;This is really nice, because whenever you change the name of your Person class, this change happens automatically for the sql statement as well.
I think the next thoughts are obvious, now, since you have decoupled the hardcoded part of the name of the class, you would like to do the same for the names of the field variables. But now you are stuck, there is no way to do this using a similar technique like for the name of the class. Either you stay with the query as it is now, or, to make it a little bit better, you code string constants for the field variables and use them. This issue brought me to the point that I think it would be nice to have the possibility to get the name of a field variable in a similar way as you can get it for the name of the class.
Conceptually it is just to go one level deeper, i.e.
first level is to get the name of a class
second level is to get the name of the field variable of a class.
Another sample would be, if you want to code something by using reflection. You have perfectly access to the reflection API starting at the class level like Person.class.allTheNiceReflectionMethods. There is no need to specify the class first with a string constant first, you directly start with the class, you can even be generic and just work on the Class.class level and still have access to all these nice methods to get out the information you need.
But if you need to start with a very specific field variable (like in the sample above), you must go by using a string constant like Person.class.getDeclaredField(name).
So basically I think that there exist already millions of lines of Java code where a field variable is specified for further processing, especially in combination with the reflection functionality and everywhere the field variables are specified by these string constants in double quotes. I would assume, that everyone has the same problem, once changing the name of the field variable means to take care that also the content of the string which specifies the name of the field variable is changed.
I am wondering why one of the replies commented, why the name of a field variable is changed, it sounds to me that this is something which basically never happens. I dont know, I think that this happens actually quite often and thanks to all these nice IDEs and their rename feature this is usually no problem. From time to time names of classes change, name of field change, yes, they are often even completely rewritten, new field variables come in some are deleted, whatever it is. The way I currently can access the name of a class makes the code safer, because when I consequently go with Class.class.getSimpleName I always know, that when I rename the class all these statements are changed too If I delete such a class, I at least get a compile error.
My very simple issues is, that I think it would be nice to have the same comfort not only on a class level but also on the level of field variables, nothing more, nothing less.
To be honest, I have not browsed the forum yet if such an issue was already raised by other people (I will do this now), but somehow it is hard to imagine, that I am the first one.
Best regards.

How do I generate the pdf file using the name of a field. How can I help

how do I generate the pdf file using the name of a field. How can I help

Hi,
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Change the name of a field in the forms

Hello, experts:
As I can change the name of a field in the forms?
When you change the name of a field on the form, the field name in the database also changes?
Joan

Hello Joan:
If you mean the label of the form you can do with CTR + Double Click.
Remember not to change the integrity of the database. Is only allowed to user fields
make changes at the level of views, stored procedures, among others, which do not compromise the integrity of
data.
Remember, even if they change the label, has changed the field name in the database, only the presentation
the form.
Edwin Mauricio Nieto Leó

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I want to change the name of the std field.....
I used CMOD option but it changed the name across the client ......
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Plz try this Link
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Dear all,
Here is my problem.
I have a 3 text fields wraped in a subform.
I have also created a button so I can add new instance of this sub form at runtime.
All that works nice.
However, I also have a HTML subbmit button, and when I submit the form to my script, I only get the last instance of the fields in the subform mentioned above.
I am not sure what is the best solution for that.
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Senior Datbase Manager
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Hi Dhiyan,
Thanks for raplying.
Your suggestion does work in the way that id does change the caption of the fields dinamically.
However, looks like when I use the HTML submit button the form still submits the data only in the last fields of the repeated subform and their names have not changed.
Probably when you say that the name of the field is its caption you mean just a static text. But I am refearing to fields where you can enter data inside.
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So when I lets say add 3 instances in my acrobat form, I want to user to click an HTML submit button, and then through a PHP script I can submit all the 3 instance to a database.
However, when I check the REQUEST array, I only see these 2 fields once (instead of 3 times) and they contain the data of the last added row.
I assume that the problem could be solved if I can somehow change their names while I add rows.
So for example in the first row I will have:
InstanceNumber_1 and YearOccured_1
in the second:
InstanceNumber_2 and YearOccured_2
and in third
InstanceNumber_3 and YearOccured_3
And so when I submit the form it will submit the data of all the rows.
I am not sure if that is possible though. But definatelly I do not know how to do it ))
What I did to go around this is:
I have created 2 other (hidden) fields.
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However, I was hoping for some little more elegant solution, that is if I can change the names and so have all the fields data submitted. Or any other good suggestion
If anyone knows, will buy you a beer )
Thanks again
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Here is the code snippet used......
ServletOutputStream outstr = response.getOutputStream();
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java.net.URL url = new java.net.URL(itemPath);
javax.activation.URLDataSource source = new javax.activation.URLDataSource(url);
javax.activation.DataHandler dataHand = new javax.activation.DataHandler(source);
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Specifying Repository Name in the Forte Shortcut

I have been looking for information on how to specify the Repository Name
with the Forte shortcut. I have a couple of repositories and I would
like to create a Forte shortcut for each repository. I am running Forte
3.0.E.0 on an NT 4.0 box. I have been trying the following command:
c:\forte\install\bin\ftcmd.exe run "forte -fr bt:central -fnd
<nodename>"
Where central is the name of the physical repository on <nodename>. I've
tried several variations without success and cannot connect with the
CentralRepository. Any suggestions? I know that I can startup the Forte
Control Panel and specify the name on that dialog, but that is tedious
when trying to switch between multiple repositories. Thanks.
Bradley K Wells
Strong Capital Management, Inc
http://www.strong-funds.com

It looks like you are not using the proper syntax for ftcmd. Refer to "A Guide to the Forte Workshops" p51,54 for the complete list of flags for ftcmd.
I believe the following is what you should use. If you are accessing a repos through a rpserver, then the repos flag needs the repos name and does not need the repos type (bt). The repos name is the value for the -n flag for the rpserver.
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Andrew Zwerin
[email protected]
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From: [email protected]@internetmime on Mon, Dec 22, 1997 7:59 PM
Subject: Specifying Repository Name in the Forte Shortcut
I have been looking for information on how to specify the Repository Name
with the Forte shortcut. I have a couple of repositories and I would
like to create a Forte shortcut for each repository. I am running Forte
3.0.E.0 on an NT 4.0 box. I have been trying the following command:
c:\forte\install\bin\ftcmd.exe run "forte -fr bt:central -fnd
<nodename>"
Where central is the name of the physical repository on <nodename>. I've
tried several variations without success and cannot connect with the
CentralRepository. Any suggestions? I know that I can startup the Forte
Control Panel and specify the name on that dialog, but that is tedious
when trying to switch between multiple repositories. Thanks.
Bradley K Wells
Strong Capital Management, Inc
http://www.strong-funds.com
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I've developed a report running Oracle Reports 10g that is being emailed to a user. I would like to specify the name of the file and it's extension that is attached. Are there variables or parameters in Oracle Reports that I can use to accomplish this?
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