Developing Forms with LiveCycle ES4 Designer

This introductory Adobe Certified course teaches techniques for developing forms using LiveCycle ES4 Designer. We use a guided “Check list” style format in the instructor-led delivery of this class. Through significant amounts of hands-on practice, by the end of the course you will know how to create static as well as dynamic interactive forms. Topics covered in this course include building a template, setting up Designer preferences, building a library group for custom objects, formatting a text field to place in the library, building a dynamic form with an expanding fields, building a dynamic form with an expanding table, building a multi-signature form without auto populate date fields, multi-signature form with scripted auto populate date fields, building a calculation (FornCalc vs. JavaScript), and Saving a Form as Reader extended.

AUDIENCE

Anyone new to the program and others who are experienced in the program gain from this class. This training benfits Form Developers, Form Managers/Records Managers, IT personnel, Government Forms and support personnel.

Course Outline

BUILDING A FORM TEMPLATE

• Form types in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES4
• Master Page Development
• Drawing Aids settings
• Standard Object library and key objects used
• Form Development utilizing a Border box
• Palettes (Object, Layout, Accessibility and Border)
• Custom objects for Page display
• Saving a Template file
• Template Manager
• Creating a New Form from a Template
• Static Forms vs. Dynamic Forms

SETTING UP DESIGNER PREFERENCES

• Toolbars (Left of Workspace)
• Tabs above the Form
• Library Groups (Right of Workspace)
• Palettes
• Drawing Aids
• Form Properties

BUILDING A LIBRARY GROUP FOR CUSTOM OBJECTS

• Adding a New Library Group
• Renaming the Library Group
• Properties and Sharing
• Adding objects to the Library Group

FORMATTING A TEXT FIELD TO PLACE IN THE LIBRARY

• Changing the Caption location
• Changing the Appearance
• Changing the User Input properties
• Changing the Border
• Changing the Fonts (Label and Value)
• Setting the Accessibility properties

BUILDING A DYNAMIC FORM WITH AN EXPANDING FIELD

• Master Page Objects
• Pagination settings
• Body or Design pages
• Wrapping objects in Subforms
• Positioned vs. Flowed Content
• Objects settings in Flowed Content
• Layout Setting s for Field expansion
• Allow for Page Breaks between pages
• Saving the Form as a Dynamic Form
• Preview PDF for testing the Form

BUILDING A DYNAMIC FORM WITH AN EXPANDING TABLE

• Master Page Objects
• Pagination settings
• Body or Design pages
• Wrapping objects in Subforms
• Positioned vs. Flowed Content
• Objects settings in Flowed Content
• Layout Settings for Field expansion
• Allow for Page Breaks between pages
• Action builder to build the Add and Delete JavaScript scripts
• Enabling “Repeat Row for Each Data Item” with enabled Min count for Repeating Row
• Dynamic XML Forms
• Preview PDF for testing the Form

BUILDING EXCLUSIVE CHECKBOXES USING ACTION BUILDER

• Build and Identify the “YES” “NO” Check Boxes
• Action Builder to build the Scripts
• Preview PDF for testing the Form

BUILDING A MULTI SIGNATURE FORM WITHOUT AUTO POPULATE DATE FIELDS

• Placing Signature Fields om the Form from the Standard Library
• Creating and Managing Signature Collections
• Assigning Collections to Signatures
• Preview PDF for testing the Form

BUILDING A MULTI SIGNATURE FORM WITH AUTO POPULATE DATE FIELDS

• Placing Signature Fields in Forms
• Changing the Field Names in Hierarchy or the Binding tab.
• Modifying the “change” and “preSign” event Scripts for each Signature field.
• Creating and Managing Signature Collections
• Assigning Collections to Signatures
• Preview PDF for testing the Form

BUILDING A CALCULATION (FORMCALC VS. JAVASCRIPT)

• Adding Decimal and Numeric Fields to the Form
• Changing the Patterns for the Display types.
• Changing the Script editor to choose languages
• Entering Code and differences with both languages
• Checking Script Syntax errors before testing
• Preview PDF for testing the Form

SAVING A FORM AS READER EXTENDED

• Opening the Form in Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Saving the Form as Reader Extended
• Open the Form in Adobe Reader to test Saving Data