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Developing Forms with LiveCycle Designer

Course Prerequisites

• Experience with XML and JavaScript helpful

Course Objectives

• Create a static interactive form, that includes master and body pages, using Adobe Designer ES, and manually configure appropriate Designer objects

Course Outline

Introducing the Course

Understanding Form Development

• Understanding Forms in Adobe LiveCycle ES
• Understanding Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader
  
• Adding and configuring interactive form objects
• Previewing interactive form objects
• Controlling tab order, presence, and accessibility
• Creating and using tables
• Organizing forms using subforms/naming
• Using master pages
• Submitting interactive data using email
  

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 fragments
• Creating and organizing form templates
  

Importing Existing Forms

• Re-using PDF forms in Designer
• Re-using Microsoft Word™ forms in Designer
  

Defining XML relationships within a form

• Designing forms using data connections
• Using XML schema to create a form
• Working with data bindings in a form
• Binding tables to repeating data
• Binding subforms to repeating data
• Using web services within a form
  

Working with barcode data

• Using paper forms barcode objects
• Managing barcode data capacity
  

Using digital signatures

• Understanding digital signatures in forms
• Verifying forms using digital signatures
• Verifying field collections using digital signatures

Advanced scripting in PDF forms

• Introducing the document object models and API
• Working with script objects
• Implementing custom, multi-field validation
• Create data drill-down behaviors
• Introspecting forms to implement type specific behaviors