LiveCycle ES: Designing Forms

Description

This course introduces and teaches, in detail, techniques for developing print and interactive forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES. Through significant amounts of thoroughly guided hands-on practice, by the end of the course you will know how to create static and interactive forms which include input validation, localized fields, and accessibility information.

Audience

Business process experts and form designers seeking to use Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES to create static and interactive forms.

Duration

Two (2) days

Course Outline

Introducing the Course

Designing print forms

  • Understanding forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES
  • Navigating the LiveCycle Designer interface
  • Creating a new form in Designer ES
  • Adding, aligning, and positioning form objects
  • Designing form appearance

Designing interactive forms

  • Adding and configuring interactive form objects
  • Previewing an interactive form
  • Controlling tab order, presence, and accessibility
  • Creating and using tables
  • Organizing forms using subforms and object naming

Controlling user input and data display

  • Formatting and validating user input
  • Setting and using locale information
  • Applying display and edit patterns
  • Applying validation patterns

Creating shared and reusable form content

  • Creating and using custom objects
  • Creating and using form fragments
  • Using master pages and global field bindings
  • Creating and organizing form templates

Importing existing forms

  • Re-using existing PDF forms in Designer
  • Re-using Microsoft Word forms in Designer