Editing in LiveCycle Designer

Is your form flowable or positioned?

I guess I am not sure what you mean - I am rather new at this. Maybe this will help - the intent of this form is for people to be able to complete it on their computer and submit the form back to us either through our website or e-mail. I am guessing here but I think that it may be positioned ??? but again - not sure.

Oh, I just realized I probably need to go one step further back, since the form was converted from Word.

There are (at least) two ways to import a form from Word. Based on my experience, which is subject to revision as I learn new things :) --

1) If you open the Word document directly in LiveCycle Designer (LCD), all the text in the document is editable.

2) However, if you open it in Acrobat, run form recognition, and then open it in
LCD, you basically end up with a PDF form which is non-editable except for the form fields.

If you click on text in your form and don't get an editable text field, you probably imported it using the latter method. If you need the whole form to be editable, try opening the Word doc straight in LCD.

Once you have an editable form in LCD, you can make the whole form, or parts of it, it positioned or flowable. Positioned means every part of the form stays where it is and doesn't move, regardless of any text the user enters. But if you make the form or parts of it flowable, fields and sections can expand based on the text entered by the user.

Flowable forms are useful--I just finished my first one--but you can also expect a lot of trial and error figuring out why things don't t work the way you expect them to :) Flowable forms don't seem to be well documented anywhere.

HTH,
Kathryn

I will try your suggestions and let you know how it works. Thank you for your help.

Kim @ Ark