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Designing forms for input

Customizing form guides

Gilles Maurice (Mar. 31, 2008)
Create custom form guide libraries, guide layouts, and panel layouts using Flex Builder.

XML Forms Architecture (XFA) specification version 2.7

Adobe (Mar. 10, 2008)
Refer to the latest specification for developing applications that create XFA templates and process XFA forms.

LiveCycle Workbench ES integration tutorial

Steve Tibbet (Aug. 20, 2007)
This tutorial demonstrates some key LiveCycle Workbench ES features, including the integrated asset repository and seamless document version control.

LiveCycle Designer ES form fragment tutorial

Stephan Cameron (July 16, 2007)
Create new fragments, incorporate fragments into existing forms, and simultaneously update multiple forms using fragments.

Using fragments

Adobe (June 4, 2007)
Use fragments to simplify and speed up the creation and maintenance of large numbers of forms.

LiveCycle Designer ES Scripting Reference (PDF, 3MB)

Adobe (June 4, 2007)
This guide describes the different objects available in the XML Form Object Model for scripting and their associated properties and methods.

FormCalc User Reference (PDF, 608K)

Adobe (June 4, 2007)
Understand the FormCalc language and the building blocks that make up FormCalc expressions.

Previous LiveCycle products

Best Practices for improving performance in dynamic PDF forms (PDF, 566K)

Learn the best practices in creating dynamic interactive PDF forms in LiveCycle Designer for use with Adobe Reader 7.0.5 and later.
Using an XML schema to build a PDF form

Import an XML schema into a form design and bind the schema to the form.
Compatibility of Adobe LiveCycle Designer 6.0 form designs with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 (PDF, 269k)

This document describes the issues that you may encounter when working with LiveCycle Designer 6.0 form designs in LiveCycle Designer 7.1.
Providing interactive database lookup from forms (PDF, 1.1M)

Learn how to use Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 to write data to and retrieve information from databases.
Using XML schema definitions with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 (PDF, 722k)

Use XML schema definitions to create electronic forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0.
Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 tips (PDF, 1.4M)

Start building forms using the LiveCycle Designer form design tool.

Viewing all scripts in a template (PDF, 316k)

Use this tip to view all scripts in a template.
Determining the Adobe Acrobat/Reader version (PDF, 1.7M)

It is critical to understand which version of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader your customer is using.
Understanding Compare Documents using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (PDF, 1.2M)

Use the Compare Documents feature to compare two PDF documents.
Summary of new key features in Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 (PDF, 262k)

This document describes new key features in LiveCycle Designer 7.1 and changes to LiveCycle Designer 7.0 features.
Validating entries in form fields (PDF, 487k)

Use Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 to define validations for form fields.
Validating XML data against a schema (PDF, 788k)

Save data from a form created in Adobe LiveCycle Designer to an XML file for validation against a schema.
Understanding the Execute function in Adobe LiveCycle Designer (PDF, 843k)

Learn how the Execute function works and what happens when you implement it on a button.
Combining LiveCycle 6.x server products with LiveCycle Designer 7.0 and Acrobat 7.0 or Reader 7.0 (PDF, 399k)

Use this tip to ensure compatibility.
Using the Snapshot tool (PDF, 252k)

An easy way to identify a print region.
Creating a custom dynamic stamp (PDF, 800k)

Create your own dynamic stamps.
Understanding the Submit function in Adobe LiveCycle Designer (PDF, 918k)

This tip discusses the Submit control—how it works and what happens when you implement it on a button.

JavaScript

Converting Acrobat JavaScript for use in Adobe LiveCycle Designer forms (PDF, 549k)

This document explains how to convert JavaScript contained in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Acrobat Standard forms for use in Adobe LiveCycle Designer forms.

Connecting Document JavaScript to 3D Views (PDF, 1.8M)

Use the 3D Tool to embed U3 (Universal 3D) objects in a PDF document.

Web services

LiveCycle Reader Extensions web service sample (ZIP, 6.07M)

A sample web service that uses Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions. Includes an EAR file for deployment as well as the source code that can be directly imported into Eclipse.

Web service example (PDF, 339k)

Use this example to calculate lease payment.

XML

Adobe XML Forms architecture (XFA)

The Adobe XML architecture combines the powerful data and business logic capabilities of XML with the rich presentation capabilities of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
Using XML schema definitions with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0 (PDF, 722k)

Use XML schema definitions to create electronic forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0.
Adding new data to an existing DATA DOM (ZIP, 613k)

This sample shows how you can add new data to an existing DATA DOM.

Adobe XML Form Object Model (PDF, 2.9M)

The Adobe XML Form Object Model provides a form design based approach to creating forms that distinguishes between the form’s layout and content.
Validating XML data against a schema (PDF, 788k)

Save data from a form created in Adobe LiveCycle Designer to an XML file for validation against a schema.
Migrating from Acrobat forms to XML forms (PDF, 298k)

This tip discusses converting JavaScript and actions created in Acrobat (using AcroForms) to work in Adobe LiveCycle Designer (using XML forms).

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