Tanya Radzinsky presented on validations, debugging, and reusability in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES. The presentation covered using pattern and script validations, debugging tools like the script checking window and message boxes, and ways to improve reusability through templates, fragments, custom fields, and script objects.

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?