Creating a New Form / Creating a New Blank Form
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OK, so you've gotten a solid run-through on the Interface inside LiveCycle and working with some Template files there, you can certainly make use of that there and of course Zooming and getting around inside LiveCycle. So now we're ready to start actually building the Form, the Form that we'll be creating together. So what I'm going to do here, I'm done with this Template so I'm going to close out of this Template file and don't forget I originally got into LiveCycle in this instance by going to the Start Menu and launching LiveCycle, right, so what's odd is now I can use this second X or this inner Close button to close out of the document that I'm currently working on without actually quitting directly out of LiveCycle. Again, just kind of a weird thing that you might have to get used to inside LiveCycle. And now what I want to do is very simply, I just want to go and create a brand new blank form. So how do you do that? Well, a couple of different ways. You have a New button way up on your Toolbar. You could drop down this Menu and then come in here and choose Blank, and then of course, your Paper Size, or we could get into some of these Templates, and once again you might want to take some time and explore through these guys here. Or, I suppose what I could do is I could just choose File, New. That of course is another method to create a new document. That brings me, of course, back into this Form Assistant and what I'm going to do here with you just real quick, is we're going to set this up here. Use a Blank Form, I'm going to click on Next, I'm going to leave all my defaults here as I did earlier with you, and I'm going to click on Next again, and I don't want to add an E-mail button and I don't want to add a Print button either. I'm going to do that stuff with you later, and I'll show you exactly how they work. And then down at the bottom here I'll click on Finish and of course I get my brand new blank 8 and a half by 11 document, right. We're ready to roll here, and I'm excited here to build this form with you completely from scratch so you can see exactly what goes into this form. But before we actually get to dropping in some of our Form Objects let me show you this. At any point if you are in the middle of your workflow, your form creation workflow, and you realize that your original form wasn't set up the way you wanted, maybe you want to change your Paper Size, or maybe you want to make some adjustments like this, right, make sure that you don't have anything selected on your page, so no text or no form objects, don't have anything selected, so sometimes what I'll do is I'll just click once or twice way up in the top corner, or something like this, and then you want to make sure that you're inside your Object Panel. So if you don't have your Object Panel open you may have to hit your Window Menu and look for Object. Let me just show you a couple of quick things here. What you can do is you can give your Page a proper name. By default, it's just going to be called Page1, Page2, but, you might want to call it Cover Page or you know, something like this, right. And below that we have Paper Type, and once again I'm still set on default here but I could pop this open and at any time I could switch this out. I could go to 11 by 17, right, or maybe I could change this to a 5, or something like this, and I don't know if you're noticing over in the Main Work Area, but it's actually changing your Form as you're switching out these Paper Types, right. So, that's really the idea here. So, I'm going to go all the way back to default if I can find default, there he is, way up at the top. Or, you know what, I just eyeballed this and I should point this out. The very last option, Custom, so you could go and choose Custom and throw in your own Custom width and height if you wish, it's certainly possible. But anyway, I'm going to make sure I'm on Default here, of course, the very first choice, and then don't forget this Orientation options. We have Portrait and Landscape, and I talked about that earlier as well. And then finally, way down toward the bottom we have Presence. Is this page going to be visible, or is it only going to be visible on screen, or is it only going to print Ð this sort of thing, right. So, anyway, there are just a couple of quick things that you can set up any time during this Form workflow. So once again, if you realize that you want to make an adjustment to your overall From just make sure you don't have anything selected and then head to your Object Panel.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | MasterClass! - Adobe LiveCycle Designer |
| Author: | Geoff Blake |
| SKU: | 34007 |
| ISBN: | |
| Release Date: | 2009-06-25 |
| Duration: | 3 hrs / 48 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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