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Day 6 – Form Layout Designing - Scripting
• Java scripts and FormCalc
• Scripts for calculation and display settings
• Complex scenarios
• Practical examples
Use of Scripts in Adobe Forms:
• With Scripts, we can have full control of Form elements at runtime.
• Benefits of scripting:
• Display/Hide Form object based on conditions
• Automatic calculations at Form level
• Dynamically bind data
• Adobe forms support 2 types of scripting:
• FormCalc ( very useful for calculation )
• Java Script
• Live cycle provides a special script editor where we can write the script code.
• Not all objects are supported for writing scripts.
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Java Script and FormCalc:
• FormCalc – Default scripting language
• It provides built-in functions for various calculation and very easy to use.
• One major drawback : Not working for HTML forms.
• Java Script – Popular language among programmers and designers
• It can be used for both PDF and HTML forms.
• Using JS, we can create custom functions which can be available throughout the Form. This feature is not available in FormCalc.
• FormCalc is more efficient than JS in case of performance.
• However, Due to flexibility provided by JS as compared to Formcalc, JS is being used in most of the scenraios.
How to use scripts in the form?
• Adobe Forms use XFA model i.e. Adobe's XML Form Architecture .
• All the objects on the form can be accessed using method resolveNode .
• We can also access context nodes into script editor and put some validation/binding based on that.
• Method resolveNode can be used to read single record /context structure and resolveNodes can be used to read table.
resolveNode :
❑ When form object has to be accessed from Hierarchy ( within the form layout )
xfa.resolvenode(“data.DPContent.IV_FLAG").rawValue;
❑ When form object has to be accessed from Data ( Global data/Form Context node )
xfa.resolvenode(“$record.IV_FLAG”).value
• Scripts can be written on script editor by selecting the appropriate form object. Selected object can be accessed via “this” operator in script editor.
• We can select the language as Java script or FormCalc from the editor.
• For PDF based forms, scripts should be executed at client side .
Options from Scripts :
• Using scripts, we can set various properties of each form object.
• Data Binding:
❑ Property for binding is rawValue ( for text field/Numeric fields )
❑ this.rawValue should be assigned by some value in script to bind it with the form object.
• Hide/Visible dynamically any control:
• Property for visibility is presence.
• this.presenece should be assigned with one of the following values:
//Options: visible, invisible, hidden, inactive
• Font customization (control/caption)
• this.font.typeface = "Courier";
• this.font.size = "30pt";
• this.font.weight = "bold";
• this.font.posture = "italic";
• this.fontColor = "0,0,0";
• this.fillColor = "153,153,153";
• Calculations:
• FormCalc is preferable for calculation
• It provides built-in functions to be used.
• SUM(DATA[*]).NETWR would calculate sum of all the rows in a table for NETWR
Events in scripts:
• Before writing scripts, we need to select the appropriate event.
• There are multiple events in forms which triggers in a sequence for both – Body page and Master page
Hide Form Objects based on Context Node:
• Select Text Field which we want to put script.
• Go to Script editor, Select INITIALIZE event and language as Java script.
• Below code was written in the tutorial we saw:
However, there was syntactical error which could be rectified by syntax check available in script editor:
Correct syntax should be :
if instead of IF
