Help re text boxes

[Former Community Member]

Can i have a text box within a form that can expand to accommodate the content and so push the rest of the form down and possibly over to another page?? if this is gobbledygook, sorry Example if  after the section : "Equipment will be used"  it could go on for 1 line or 2 pages but the rest of the form need to retain format?? i.e. footers and any other notes below the expanding box and could page numbers continue?

[Former Community Member]

No problem, you can do what you want to do with a dynamic PDF form built with LC Designer.

I have attached a simple sample form with test data.

Regards

Steve

[Former Community Member]

Thank for the help, what you have sent makes sense!, I’ve tried to make it work but I’m obviously an  idiot and for the life of me can’t make it work.

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

Shaun

Try the following steps to test...

Copy the data file (expand.xml) to a folder
Launch LiveCycle Designer ES and open the ExpandField.pdf form
Select the "Data View" palette and Right Click on "DataConnection"
Select "Connection Properties"
Click "Next"
Browse to the location where you saved the "expand.xml" file
Click "Finish"

Also, confirm the following..

File > Form Properties > Preview > Preview Type > Interactive Form

To view the form with data, select the "Preview PDF" tab

Regards

Steve

[Former Community Member]

Thanks steve,  could have a look at my Pdf? I only need section 4,5,7 and 9 to flow! I'll have to look around for a LiveCycle training centre! some 1 on 1 needed i think, doh!

[Former Community Member]

I'll take a look at it as soon as I have a chance.

Steve

[Former Community Member]

Thanks Steve, you are a star, it may make more sense if I can see it in my own document, again, thanks

[Former Community Member]

Shaun

I have posted a slightly modfied version of your form.  I have started to fix section 4 and 5 as an example, but for this form to work properly you will need to do a lot of clean up.  It appears that the form may have been created by importing another file format.  I say this because there is a huge number of objects (rectangles) that are used to create lines, and multiple static text objects are used to create single lines of text etc...

You need to go through the form design an delete all unnecessary objects, combine the text objects, and replace the multiple rectangle objects that are used to define the borders (i.e. the outside border of the form) with a single rectangle object.

In all honesty, it may be faster to redesign the form from scratch.

Regards

Steve

[Former Community Member]

Steve Thanks for at least having a look! Like I say I may need to book some training. Regards Shaun