Livecycle Designer 7.1 Forms Creation

Requirements:

An understanding of form design processes and form-based business processes

Familiarity with Javascript

An understanding of computer programming concepts and XML

Basic understanding of web services and Service Oriented Architecture

Course suitable for:
Professionals needing to intelligently capture information to streamline form-driven business processes through automation. You will learn to deploy secure XML-based forms as PDF or HTMLover any platform or device without requiring the user to have any ne- software or plug-ins. This is a Fundamentals-level course and intended for:

• Form Designers
  


• Form Developers

Course objectives:
After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create a static interactive form, that includes master and body pages, using Adobe Designer 7.1, and manually configure appropriate Designer objects
  


• Describe ho- data sources are used for data handling and form design, and create an interactive form from at least two different data description types
  


• Describe the relevant XFA-based object models and implement business logic in a form design by creating scripts, in two scripting languages, that execute client-side
  


• Create a dynamic form that adapts to accommodate varying amounts of data, or to user interaction
  

Course content:
Course Summary
This course introduces and describes various techniques for using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 to create electronic forms that can complement, or supercede, other means of collecting and presenting enterprise data. After this course you will be able to create static and dynamic interactive forms that can reduce data collection and processing errors, and enhance the user experience. The course covers basics of form design, dynamic form layouts and advance techniques for adding intelligence to your forms.
Course Content
Introduction to Acrobat 8 Professional features
Creating a form within Acrobat
Automatic form field recognition
Enablement of PDF with forms intelligence for Adobe Reader
Securoty options
Introduction to AdobeLivecycle Designer

Exploring templates
Conversion of existing PDF into Livecycle
Conversion of Word files into Livecycle
User interface and workspace

User workspace and options
Customising panels and formatting objects
Master pages tab
XML tab
Previe- (render) PDF tab
Form basics

Grids, Rulers, Guides and Object boundaries
Guidelines definitions
Snap to grid and display options
Adding and removing pages
Changing form paper size
Saving a form as a Designer template
Template Manager
Keyboard Basics
Customise menu appearances
Library objects

Favourites
Standard
Custom
Barcodes
Adding content from library
Adding contect to a library
Custom shared library location
Formatting objects

Text formatting
Object formatting
Alignment
Distribute
Multiply
Group and ungroup
Stacking order
Lock and unlocking objects
Checking content

Rending form content
Examining rendering errors
Spell checking
Exploring form buttons

Dropping form buttons into layout
Configuration options
Building drop downs
Buiolding list boxes
Building radio buttons
Adding reset, print and submit buttons
Adding a barcode
Accessibility options
Distribution workflow

Preparing a form for distribution
Publishing via web
Sending out via email
Collecting data via Acrobat PDF Packages
Export to .csv
Options for javascript subnmission