Question Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms in Technology Q&A

Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:39:25 GMT

I am currently working with NWDS 7.14 and Life Cycle Desiger 7.1. My Requirement is the following: dependent on a user input (e.g. selected checkbox) i want to switch the attus of certain ui elements to "invisble".According to some previous posts, I use the follwing JS-code to achieve the described functionality:

var check = CheckBox1.rawValue;

if (check== '1') {

Subform3.presence="visble";

Subform3.presence="hidden";

}

(the code lies in the exit event of the checkbox)

unfortunately, nothing happens, the code does not work.

Could anyone please provide help?

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

vaibhav_tiwari — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:11:25 GMT

Hi Alexander,

Is ACF installed on your system.

Regards,

Vaibhav

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:04:14 GMT

No, I do not remember installing Active Component Framework (ACF).

Is that required? How would I do that? Is it necessary to display the form in Preview mode already?

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

vaibhav_tiwari — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:16:12 GMT

Hi Alexander,

You can download it from SAP service market place i.e. service.sap.com.

An xACF patch is available there download it and install. I think it will start working.

Regards,

Vaibhav Tiwari.

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:14:10 GMT

I just installed ACF on my system, but no change in behaviour so far.

As far as I understand ACF is a kind of a plugin for the Internet Explorer, but the Form is shown in Adobe Reader, so therefore I do not understand how the installation of ACF could affect the behavoiur of the rendered Form in Preview Mode in NWDS/Life Cycle Designer...

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:14:02 GMT

If your pdf type is put as activex, ACF is rerquired. else you can set the value as native in the interactive form properties.

If you are trying in the formcalc. You can try out writing the script in the click event of the check button.

if ( $.rawValue == 'X' ) then

$.parent.<SOM hierarchy>.presence = "invisible"

else

endif.

You can try debugging it manually by setting a text field to see the value changes.

You may also use java script. But for these simple scripts, it is recommended to use form calc.

Thanks and Regards,

Antony John Isacc.

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

vaibhav_tiwari — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:49:50 GMT

Hi Alexander,

ACF is a pluggin for UI elements like buttons, textfields, radiobuttons etc. We have to install ACF in order to make these fields work correctly. If you are writing the same code as you have mentioned in the post then change it as following:

1. if you want to show the subform.

var check = CheckBox1.rawValue;

if (check== '1') {
Subform3.presence="visible";
}

2. if you want to hide the subform.

var check = CheckBox1.rawValue;

if (check== '1') {

Subform3.presence="hidden";

}

I hope it will work.

Regards,

Vaibhav Tiwari.

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:12:35 GMT

I amneded the script and installed ACF and so on. It still doesn't work in PDF Preview Mode.

When I amended the presence property on a conventional Textfield. It only affects the Value inside the Textfield. E.g. if set the presence to invisible, the text inside the Input field is gone, but the label and the inputfield are still visible, whereas setting it to hidden, doesn't affect the input field at all.

not a really complex problem, but nothing seems to work.

I really assume the preview mode shows how the form behaves once the WebDynpro app including the form has been deployed to server, right?

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:29:29 GMT

Hi Alexander,

Please use a subform for this field and make the subform invisible based on condition. Hopefully it will work.

Regards,

Arafat

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:58:51 GMT

yes, that's actually what I was tying to do initially.

We are talking about a regular Subform right? No special setting?

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:08:59 GMT

No special subform, simple subform will do.

Regards,

Arafat

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:09:09 GMT

Still no solution.

The issue described above does not neither am I able to foll a dropdown dynamically as described in other threads.

Could Internet Explorer 7.0 be an issue? Should I use Explorer 6.0?

Re: Dynamic Adobe Forms

Former Member — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:56:06 GMT

Hi Alexander,

Did u manage to resolve the problem?