Adobe Form repeating table header overlap

[former_member692314]

This smells like a major bug to me, but just to be sure I'm not missing anything obvious...

When I select the 'Include Header Row in Subsequent Pages', the row gets printed, but all elements overlap. It seems to have forgotten all flow and just prints every individual element starting from the left. I have tried putting all elements in a separate subform (as child of the header row) and switching between Flowed and Positioned content. Makes no difference in the end.

Which matches what I see in the builder (using trx SFP or copy/pasting XML to LiveCycle Designer, same result):

There is no scriping in the form, it's just a regular table. There used to be two separte header rows, but for the sake of not making this more complicated than it needs to be, combined those into a single row. The form hierarchy now looks like this:

I'm not the first person to come across this strange behavior, but all suggestions point to replacing the table with (sub)forms, which makes the table object kind of useless. Specifically these options to repeat a header/footer should save a lot of trouble, but so far.... *curse*.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[former_member692314 · Accepted solution]

Not clear what it was that fixed it, but after various attempts it suddenly works! Currently the content layout of all header row subforms is set to 'positioned' and I have removed various table-related tags from the XML to have them regenerated when saving/activating.

Whilst the end result is a nice looking form, the design process is quite delicate. Not being able to properly debug makes it hard to analyze in case of errors. Let alone translating a form when the ID's are mismatching.

But hey, right now I have a working form. Let's hope no one requests any additional changes 🙂