I am trying to put together the most basic POC for LiveCycle ES4 with MS SQL 2008 R2 and am having no luck. I have follow multiple tutorials from both Adobe and third parties and cannot get the most simple data connections to happen.
Objective: Create a form with First Name and Last Name fields so that the field data can be stored in and retrieved from a MS SQL server
Configuration: Server: VM with Windows 2008 R2 and SQL 2008 R2 Client: Windows 8 local host with LiveCycle ES4 installed
For the server I followed the guidelines established by Adobe http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/11.0/PrepareInstallSingle/lc_prepare_install_single. pdf in Chapter 4
On the client i created an ODBC connection and successfully tested it.
In LiveCycle when i attempt to add a new data connection by right-clicking in the data view pane I do the following:
Select New Data Connection...
Give it a name (pdfpoc10)
Select OLEDB Database then click Next
Click Build on the Connection String
Select the Connection tab
Select my ODBC connection in the Source Data drop-down
In spite of having already put UN/PW info into the ODBC connection, I have to enter it again here in the UN/PW boxes
Test the connection, get a success message then click ok
In the resulting OLEDB Connection window the connection string is populated
IF I select Table - there is nothing there. Any entry will result in an error
IF I select SQL Query (preferred) and enter the following query: SELECT * FROM pdfdata I get the response "Could not execute the query "SELECT * FROM pdfdata"
I have tried several variations on this theme including:
SELECT * FROM pdfdata;
SELECT * FROM [pdfdata]
SELECT * FROM [pdfdata];
SELECT * FROM pdf_poc.dbo.pdfdata
SELECT * FROM pdf_poc.dbo.pdfdata;
SELECT * FROM [pdf_poc].[dbo].[pdfdata]
SELECT * FROM [pdf_poc].[dbo].[pdfdata];
All with the same result. When I execute the same query from inside SQL I get the result set I am expecting.
BTW: the SQL DB only has one table called "pdfdata" which only has three columns: id, first, last. The data exists in two rows: 1,Buggs,Bunny 2,Daffy,Duck
What am i missing to make this connection?
