What is the evolution for the component LiveCycle Form Manager in the LiveCycle ES ?

[Former Community Member]

Hello.



Our company is trying to implement an e-Form solution that could help us managing our e-Form documents. We found Adobe LiveCycle and think it is the best option but we want to figure out something we don´t get yet. We see that in LiveCycle 7.2 there was the LiveCycle Form Manager that was used to publish all forms, in their native formats, to a centralized form repository, leverage user profiles for data prepopulation upon form access.provide access and enable forms search through a Web interface and maintain version and access controls. In the Adobe LiveCycle ES we don´t find that module. Which module can give us the same functionalities that were offered with the Form Manager? Do we need to buy the entire suite?



In the future we are planning to buy the whole suite, but for now we would like to start only with the basic services the Form Manager used to offer.



Thanks for any help.

[HowardTreisman]

Hi Jose

Form Manager has been replaced by a module called "Workspace" in LiveCycle ES.



Workspace does take a more process-centric approach to forms, in that there are workflows associated with each form:

- one to render the form (which may include prepopulation, based on, for example, the user who is logged in - something that wasn't possible in Form Manager)

- one to deal with the form submission - which may include extracting the data, assigning the form to someone to approve, etc



Workspace is built in Flex, and looks great. Adobe also provide the source code, so you can skin and tweak it yourself.



If you're looking for something simpler, or possibly something that is more public-user focussed, Avoka have two add-on products you may be interested in - please email info-at-avoka.com for details.



Howard

http://www.avoka.com

[HowardTreisman]

PS You don't actually buy Workspace as a separate component, it is bundled with other LiveCycle components.

PS2 Unfortunately, I can't find any screenshots on Adobe's site.

[Stephane_Gervai]

Hi Jose,



The replacement for LiveCycle Form Manager 7.x is LiveCycle Process Management ES. You will find more details in the Adobe LiveCycle ES Upgrade Center, http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/upgrade.html



Many of the web-based features of LiveCycle Form Manager 7.x are now available through LiveCycle Workbench ES.



Regards,

steph