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LiveCycle Designer 7.0 Form with Dynamic Table

Guzzy156
Registered: Jun 30 2010
Posts: 9
Answered

Hi Everyone,

New to Livecycle Designer and was hoping this is possible - Can you have a PDF userform with a dynamic table below it?...

Basically the user fills out a userform then clicks an ADD button - this populates a dynamic table below the userform then clears/resets the userform - as the records fill the table an EDIT button appears in the last column so that if the user makes an error with a record they could click the EDIT button, this would bring the record back into the userform fields so they could change the field(s) they made the error in then a SAVE button would replace the ADD button in this instance, clicking SAVE then changes the record and clears/resets the userform ready for more entries.

At the bottom of the PDF there would be an EXPORT button which attaches the table as a csv or tab-delimited text file to an email message...

If someone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated - I have googled and searched the forums for an answer but they mostly relate to importing data into a dynamic table from a database or xml file... I was hoping to directly populate the table with the userform.

I also have a PDF example which illustrates what I am trying to achieve... but seems you cannot attach to a post... I can email it if someone has a solution, but needs to see it visually.

Cheers

Guzzy156

scottsheck
Registered: May 3 2007
Posts: 138
What you are asking can be done. Look up addinstance or instancemanager in the LCD help to dynamically add records to a table.
As for the export, you can basically only automatically attach a PDF or XML of your data.

There are plenty of examples here that will help:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/designer_scripting_samples.php
Guzzy156
Registered: Jun 30 2010
Posts: 9
Thanks for the response Scottscheck.... will check the link out...

Guzzy156