Use AcroJS in LiveCycle Designer

Hi all,
This is my first post and i am totally new to creating pdf forms.
I am using LiveCycle Designer 7.1 to create forms. I want to embed lot of javascript in the form. As per my understanding i need to use AcroJS. But it does not work as it is in the LiveCycle Designer 7.1. I got one doc (Converting Acrobat® JavaScript for Use in
LiveCycle Designer Forms) which tells necessary changes one has to make to acroJS to use in LiveCycle Designer.
Problem is most of the features of acroJS are not available in the LiveCycle Designer. What should i do ? Is there any other tool using which i create forms and embed the Javascript in the form. Or i have to use LiveCycle Designer to create forms. Please advice. Thanks in advance
Ramdas.

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is my first post and i am totally new to creating pdf forms.
> I am using LiveCycle Designer 7.1 to create forms. I want to embed lot of javascript in the form. As per my understanding i need to use AcroJS. But it does not work as it is in the LiveCycle Designer 7.1. I got one doc (Converting Acrobat® JavaScript for Use in
> LiveCycle Designer Forms) which tells necessary changes one has to make to acroJS to use in LiveCycle Designer.
> Problem is most of the features of acroJS are not available in the LiveCycle Designer. What should i do ? Is there any other tool using which i create forms and embed the Javascript in the form. Or i have to use LiveCycle Designer to create forms. Please advice. Thanks in advance
>
> Ramdas.
Ramdas,
You can actually use Acrobat Javascript within a designer form. The
key to being able to do this is accessing the 'document' object. You
can do this with:
var myDoc = event.target;
The 'myDoc' variable will be the Document object within the Acrobat
Javascript model.
One other recommendation...you'll get more responses to your
Designer/Javascript questions in the Designer forum rather than this
one. This forum is for the LiveCycle Forms, which is an enterprise
server product (although the name is somewhat confusing).
Justin Klei
Cardinal Solutions Group
www.cardinalsolutions.com

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