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Form Filling Wizard

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2009-06-05 01:16:03
vpd85
Registered: Mar 19 2009
Posts: 39

Hello,

I stumbled up on the AcroDialogs plug-in, while searching for “form filling wizard” on the internet.
I work for an international company and right now I have a project based on LiveCycle. We already created a pretty much complex form and the next step is to create a wizard for it, to make its filling in / completion as easy as it can be. Already tried this in LiveCycle but it did not work :(.

As I find the The AcroDialogs wizard very easy and accessible – the only problem encountered, is the lack of knowledge how to make the copying of the information from the wizard fields into the .pdf form work, as the example “PDF Form Filling Wizard Demo” (http://www.windjack.com/WindJack/Examples/MultipartFormWizard_Demo2reg.pdf)

Thank you very much.

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2009-06-05 07:17:36
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
The AcroDialogs uses the Acrobat 's 'Dialog' object that uses a number of methods and function calls to gather, validate and process the data. Many of these methods or functions ca return the gathered information in various objects that can be processed into the individual fields. The returned object could be a value, an array of values, data object, date object, etc.

Have you looked at the field and document level functions of the form?

You will also need to have the Acrobat JS API Reference to understand the 'Dialog' object and the 'execDialog' method. And you may need to have the Mozilla JavaScript Reference ver 1.5 to understand the JavaScript language. The 'Dialog' object is quite complex and even an experienced programmer can find the AcroDidalogs product beneficial, as the programmer will not need to perform the calculations or trial and errors for the dialog layouts and all the needed actions.

George Kaiser

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