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Designing E-Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Course Prerequisites

• An understanding of form design processes and form-based business processes
• A basic understanding of computer programming concepts and XML
  

Course Objectives

• Create a static interactive form, that includes master and body pages, using Adobe Designer ES, and manually configure appropriate Designer objects
• Configure data validation options for form fields
  
• Create a dynamic form that adapts to accommodate varying amounts of data, or to user interaction
• Share content between forms and among developers
  
• Re-purpose forms created in Microsoft Word or prior versions of Acrobat
  

Course Outline

Introducing the Course

Designing Print Forms

• Understanding Forms in Adobe LiveCycle ES
• Navigating the LiveCycle Designer interface 
• Creating a New Form in Designer ES
• Adding, aligning, and positioning form objects
• Designing form appearance

Designing Interactive Forms

• 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

Creating Shared and Reusable Form Content

• Creating and using custom objects
• Creating and using form 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