Adding scripts to your forms brings a whole new level of interactivity for the user. For example, you can anticipate exactly what a user is going to do and ensure that they do what you want them to do. Or, also using scripts, you can adjust the form to respond to a user's response, thus customizing the form on the fly in response to user inputs.

Figure 8-27. JavaScript enables the appropriate subform to display upon selection of Credit card in the Payment options drop-down list.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• About scripting in LiveCycle Designer
• Using statement completion in the Script Editor
• Adding a world of automation using JavaScript
• Separating form and function: Creating a Script object

Prerequisites

Knowledge of LiveCycle Designer ES.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

LiveCycle Designer ES

• Try LiveCycle Designer ES
• Buy LiveCycle Designer ES

Sample files

• advanced_formscripting.zip (ZIP, 321KB)

Read the complete chapter

• Chapter 8: Performing advanced form scripting (PDF, 1.3M)

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