Now I'm not sure if LiveCycle or Acrobat 8.x is the best way of going about this - but I'd welcome any ideas:
I've got a pile of forms here many of which have common sections. So in order to cut-down the number of forms here's the plan.
Create a MASTER - a section that's common to ALL forms.
Create each section that's unique to each form.
1) Now when a User opens the MASTER section, completes that.
2) From a drop-down menu selects the typer of form they want.
3) Then that section appears - User completes that.
4) You might have another section from that.............etc etc. If this makes sense.
So, you might have in one situation:
Office - PC - Hardware - Fail
or if it's a Software prob:
Office, Software, Windows, Reinstall
So when that form's complete it'll print out as ONE form containing the appropriate sections.
Any ideas??? Thanks, Al
If web-based is an option and the forms are long, I would consider that route using javascript to select sections and then convert to a pdf.
Otherwise, you could have a button that appears if a form field is enter and an action that brings up the remaining sections that is related. And each section file is then inserted again using a button . . . if I made any sense. . .