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LiveCycle ES: Developing Forms (2 days)

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Description

This course introduces and teaches, in detail, techniques for developing forms for data capture and data display using Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES. Through significant amounts of thoroughly guided hands-on practice, by the end of the course you will know how to create static as well dynamic, interactive, data-bound forms including input validation, localized fields, accessibility information, embedded barcodes, and simple through advanced scripted interactions.

Audience

Interactive form developers.

Pre-requisites

Experience with XML and Javascript helpful.

Duration

Two days

Course Outline

Introducing the course

Introducing form layout

Understanding forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES
Designing interactive forms
Previewing an interactive form
Controlling tab order, presence, and accessibility
Creating and using tables
Organizing forms using subforms and object naming

Controlling user input and data display

Formatting and validating user input
Setting and using locale information
Applying display and edit patterns
Applying validation patterns

Scripting form interactions

Adding business logic with scripts
Creating conditional form interactions
Validating user input using scripts
Sharing data and controlling focus
Creating scripts using calculations

Working with flowed layout

Understanding subforms in dynamic forms
Using expanding tables in dynamic forms
Flowing tables over multiple pages

Creating shared and reusable form content

Creating and using custom objects
Creating and using form fragments
Creating and using script fragments
Creating and using conditional subform fragments
Using master pages and global field bindings
Creating and organizing form templates

Importing Existing Forms

Re-using existing PDF forms in Designer
Re-using Microsoft Word forms in Designer

Defining XML relationships in Designer

Designing forms using data connections
Using XML schema to create a form
Working with data bindings in a form
Using explicit data binding in a form
Binding tables to repeating data
Binding subforms to repeating data
Using SOAP based web services

Using barcode data in forms

Using paper forms barcode objects
Managing barcode data capacity

Using digital signatures

Using digital signatures to verify a form
Using document signatures to verify a field collection

Using advanced scripting techniques

Understanding script use in forms
Introducing script objects
Implementing custom multi-field validation
Creating a data drill-down effect
Implementing version dependent form behavior