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expanding text fields

afamulari
Registered: Oct 2 2007
Posts: 2

Hello! I have been spending the past few weeks creating new templates in LiveCycle Designer 8.0 for my office. I have created most of them, but i am stuck creating a template that has expanding text fields. These fields need to move all the fields below them (using subforms) and also go onto the next page if more space is needed. I don't know anything about writing scripts, so is there any way to do this without scripting?
Also, I need to secure these forms. People in our office should be able to fill in the forms freely, but when we email the forms to our clients, all but 2 fields must be locked. How do i do this?
 
Thank you,
Amy

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Hi afamulari,

There is an example of how to create a form with expanding text fields on the LiveCycle samples scripting page at:
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/7_Questions_Flowing.pdf]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/7_Questions_Flowing.pdf[/url]

Under the File --> Form Properties dialog you can set the security properties for the entire PDF. You can also use a document signature to lock fields after signing. This can apply to the whole document or a collection of objects such as certain fields. There is an example of this at:
[url=http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/livecycle/designer/pdfs/SignatureFieldEvents.pdf]http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/livecycle/designer/pdfs/SignatureFieldEvents.pdf[/url]

Hope this helps,
Lori

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.