1. LiveCycle Validations and
Scripting
Presented By:
Tanya Radzinsky
Capital Area LiveCycle Usergroup
www.aboutweb.com www.dc-livecycle.org

2. Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES
An intuitive tool for creating interactive forms
and personalized documents.

3. Presentation Summary
• Validations
• Debugging
• Reusability

4. Validations
• Pattern Validation
– Be sure to put a patter under Validation tab
– Very little control
• Script Validation
– FormCalc – native Adobe script, used for simple calculations.
– JavaScript – flexible script used for more complex scripts.
– Can be combined with Pattern Display.

5. Debugging
• Script Checking & Warning Window
• Ability to validate JavaScript script before execution
• Message Boxes
• Using host and event models to help you debug
• Acrobat Debugger
• Only works with JavaScript
• Can Display messages on the console

6. Reusability
• Templates
- Great way to keep your forms consistent
- Save time on retyping same old form attributes
• Fragments & Custom Fields
- Combines commonly used form elements
- Greatly reduces the complexity of forms and improves
maintainability.
• Script Objects
- Used to store common JavaScript functions
- Reduces repetitive coding

7. Questions?