Add a new instance of my row in a table

I think your problem has to do with not understanding the structure and operation of LiveCycle forms. Have you seen this tutorial?

https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p87746471/

Also I would suggest searching this site for anything having to do with LiveCyle and watching or reading those videos or articles.

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Hi Steven,

Here are few things to look into.

1. The form is saved as a static PDF. It needs to be saved as an Adobe Dynamic XML Form. This way the layout will be updated when rows are added.

2. The Table2.Row1 is not allowed to repeat. In Designer, select Row1, go to the Object palette, Binding tab, and check Repeat Row for Each Data Item. One way to catch this issue is to open the JavaScript Debugger when you preview the form. When I clicked the Add button, there was a warning saying ‘The element [max] has violated its allowable number of occurrences.’

3. Page1 is a positioned subform. It needs to be flowed. This way objects placed under the table will move to make space for the newly added row. In Designer, select the Page1 subform, go to the Object palette, Subform tab, and set the Content to Flowed. But before you proceed, know that the children of Page1 will be repositioned and flow on the page based on the order they are listed in the Hierarchy View i.e. Logo will be placed first followed by RequestforTravelApproval, Table5, Table1[0], so on so forth. To retain the current positioning of the form objects, you’ll need to add structure to your. Have a look at the Help topic ‘Organizing the form’ under ‘Quick Start Tutorials’ -> ‘Creating a purchase order form that has flowable layout’. You can also open the Dynamic Interactive Purchase Order form found at
[installDir]\EN\Samples\Forms\Purchase Order\Dynamic Interactive\Forms. It will give you an example of the type of structure you need to build.

Hope this helps,
Hélène

you can't add rows with static pdfs. change it to dynamic

HI Guys,

thanks for the suggestions. i've done all the steps Helene and xrum have suggested and have gotten the rows to fire off. i will figure out how to re-do the layout.

I'm having anew problem now in that my accomodation table has a few formulas in there to calculate cost per night and total cost for accomodation.

However when i fire off the new row. the combo boxes are throwing an error as they keep changing the first row's data.

http://www.bses.org.au/downloads/Steven_IT/Travel%20Form_AutoAdd_v0_2.pdf

this is the updatedd version.

also how do i view the javscript debugger ? thanks for the advice on this helene. i just deleted the code for max rows and it works fine.

Hello,

Try modifying your scripts to use relative SOM expressions.

The scripts populating the hotel and cost are using absolute SOM expressions to access these drop-down lists however the SOMs don’t specify which instance of Row1 to look under which also means use the first instance.

Given each object inside Row1 knows about each other, all you have to do is specify their name in the script. For example


There is Help topic describing how to reference objects.
Scripting > Scripting Using LiveCycle Designer ES > Referencing Objects in Calculations and ScriptsAs for the JavaScript debugger, have a look at the Help topic here
Scripting > Scripting Using LiveCycle Designer ES > Debugging Calculations and Scripts > To enable the JavaScript Debugger for LiveCycle Designer ESOne last thing, the instanceManager has a count property so you don’t have to manually count the number of rows.
Scripting > Scripting Using LiveCycle Designer ES > Examples of Common Scripting Tasks > Using the properties of the instance manager to control subformsCheers
Hélène

HI Helen,

sorry for the late reply.

I've changed it according to the example code you gave int he previous post and have gotten the fields to change accordingly.

My final problem now is that towards the bottom of the form i have a Total field that is suppose to tally each of the different sections.

however now it will only add in the first row of the accomodation table not the total of the subsequent new rows that have been added.

i know this is something to do with the absolute addressing. however if i change it to just accomTotal i get a referencing error when loading it preview.

do i need to create an invisble field to tally all the rows from my dynamic table ? then use that as the total to be added to my overall total field ? how do i add the total of the dynamic rows ?

here is the updated file.

http://www.bses.org.au/downloads/Steven_IT/Travel%20Form_AutoAdd_v0_3.pdf

Hi Helene,

i found the answer here

http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=20693

thanks for all the help. !!

Steven