Comments on: RichText tricks for TextField in Designer

By: E. Loralon

E. Loralon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:28 +0000

Thank you Parth,

Yes, actually when I discovered the Ctrl+E I thought my problem was solved but the users want more features.

So I proposed to do the following: add a word template to my form and create a button on the form to open the word document so that the users work from one form/location.

II am currently able to achieve the above but the question is now to have another button on the form to print both the form and the attachment.

So I was wondering whether you might be able to help me using JavaScript to create a button that will print the form and the attached document at the same time.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Loralon

By: Srini Dhulipalla

Srini Dhulipalla — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:13:31 +0000

Parth,
This is a nice and useful post. I have been thinking different options but your solution makes the simplest solution.

Thanks for posting..
Regards
Srini

By: pandyaparth

pandyaparth — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:09:22 +0000

Hi Bob,
I think I’ve got a sample that you would like!! I implemented the Text field usage that I talked in my reply earlier and that works on reader 8 too!
It may be helpful to you in achieving same results across multiple reader versions.
The sample is at http://livecyclekarma.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/floatingtext-with-pagebreak.pdf

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:36:52 +0000

OK, the solution to my last post was installing Adobe Reader 9.0. Of course the problem remains that earlier versions will not render the document properly. So in that sense the problem lingers.

My latest quest will involve disabling the restriction on saving the form data in Reader 9.0.

It’s always something…

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:56:55 +0000

Parth,

Thanks for your quick reply. Last night I was so frustrated that I went to Adobe can came across LiveCycle Designer ES (I have been using 8.0), installed the trial product, and there were the check boxes I’d been looking for: “Allow Page Breaks Within Content” and “Keep with Next”

The page break worked great when I added the text object to a new form. The PDF preview was great. So I saved the form as a dynamic PDF and everything is back to the way it was before—the text once again runs down page and gets lost below the footer and doesn’t break to the next page.

Any ideas? I can’t be the only one with this problem, right?

By: pandyaparth

pandyaparth — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:58:03 +0000

Hi Bob,
Did you try multi-line text field for display purpose? I’m thinking of trying out text-field that looks like text object to achieve what you need. You should change the appearance of that text field to look like a text object (with some background fill and removal of borders). Also make the text field to read only.
Before you assign the text to this text field you should get the contract content with embedded field values. This will allow the lengthy contract details to break at proper location.
regards,
Parth

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:50:08 +0000

Do you know of a way to modify a standard text object — as opposed to a multi-line text field — to automatically break to subsequent pages if their is an overflow of content?

I’m trying to create a contract with embedded fields, and it seems the easiest way is to use the text object as the primary body container. Of course my problem is that the text object doesn’t break despite its being contained within a flowing page and subform.

Thanks.

By: Amal Elaine

Amal Elaine — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:35:01 +0000

This is a really great post too. I can’t wait to see what you put together for the prepopulation we’ve been discussing in the livecycle google group!