LiveCycle Doc team

Recently, when I was automating a process, part of the requirement was to merge XML data with a form design that was created in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES. When you are merging a form design with data from an XML file, you can use either the Forms service or Output service in LiveCycle ES. Depending on how you use the resultant merged form design and data, determines which service best meets your requirements.

Continue reading "Should I use the Output service or Forms service?" »

Posted by Gilbert Yu at 12:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

You may have missed it during the MAX 2009 conference, among all of the announcements, but Adobe has publicly announced a new product that allows users to create composite Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).

Continue reading "Adobe Announces LiveCycle Mosaic ES2" »

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 1:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I had a great time at Adobe MAX 2009. I talked to many users of LiveCycle ES and got some great feedback about the documentation. I don't mean you all love our docs, but I mean you provided some great insights into how we can improve. (But some of you do apparently love our docs!)

Some of the things you asked for:

• More examples


• PDF versions of Help


• More access points to Help via F1


• Make it easier to find information on Adobe.com

Posted by Scott Brodersen at 2:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here's the list of Knowledge Base tech notes that the LiveCycle ES team has published in the past two months:

• LC ES Workspace: how to change the language of Workspace
• LC ES: OOO Delegation/Queue sharing tasks not appearing in delegee's worklist
• Access Control - Adding permissions in LiveCycle Workbench
• Comic Sans MS font - Italic style
• PDF/A Metadata missing extension schema" during PDF/A conversion (LCES821SP2)
• WRL 3D images manipulation in LC PDFG ES 3D
• Initialization failure after failed migration
• Policy for third party components in Adobe LiveCycle products
• LiveCycle ES Processes Do Not Support Collections of Collections

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 1:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Looking for a new way to learn about LiveCycle? Prefer watching TV to reading books? If so, you might like Adobe TV: http://tv.adobe.com, which contains videos on LiveCycle and other Adobe products. You can browse or search for topics that you're interested in, save your favorite videos to "My Library" or share them on social networking sites, and subscribe to RSS feeds of your favorite shows.

Posted by Melanie Jackson at 9:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

After installing LiveCycle ES, there are a number of URLs that you use to access various LiveCycle ES web applications. Here's a cheat sheet for those URLs.

Continue reading "LiveCycle ES web application cheat sheet" »

Posted by Gilbert Yu at 9:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Want to stay in touch with what's new with LiveCyle ES? You could wait for our regular press releases ... or you could become one of the LiveCycle nation and get plugged in using one of our social networking outlets. Here's the rundown:

Continue reading "@livecycle How do I add you to my social networks?" »

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 4:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Earlier this week, Adobe launched another set of Solution Accelerators for LiveCycle ES, which include:

• Financial Services Account Enrollment Solution Accelerator
• Financial Services Correspondence Management Solution Accelerator
• Government Benefits & Services Delivery Solution Accelerator
• Cross-Industry Human Capital Applications Solution Accelerator

For more details, see the Solution Accelerator page on the LiveCycle Developer Center at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/?view=solutionaccelerators.

Posted by Laurie Cotten at 2:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here's the list of Knowledge Base tech notes that thehttp://blogs.adobe.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=41903&blog_id=217 LiveCycle ES team has published in the past little while:

• How to parse soap response returned by external webservice?
• LiveCycle ES Processes Do Not Support Collections of Collections
• LifeCycle Designer ES screen reader order cannot be configured across subforms
• LiveCycle database size grows inordinately on synching users periodically with Content Services ES installed
• Installing LiveCycle ES SP2 on Linux
• Retrieving LiveCycle ES WSDLs
• QPAC properties dialog not working in Workbench (LiveCycle ES)
• LC ES: ALC-DSC-000-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.DSCRuntimeException: Internal error
• Apply a Page Label to rebuild contiguous page numbers in a newly assembled PDF
• Group canonical name field in EDCPRINCIPALENTITY changed for LiveCycle ES 8.2.1
• Out Of Memory error during installation of LiveCycle ES 1 on Solaris 10 with Sun JVM 1.5
• OpenOffice 3.x is supported as LCES 8.2.1.2 (build 8.2.2003.1.516326.5)

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 1:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Since we released LiveCycle ES last year, we have continued to update and improve the documentation. We hear what you are telling us and are working with the various teams here at Adobe provide you, the customer, with the best quality of information.

What we have provided you so far:

- Updated the installation and configuration documentation for each of the Service Packs to address reported issues
- Provided new documents such as “Techniques for Configuring Applications for LiveCycle Workspace ES”
- Responded to LiveDoc comments requesting more clarification or information on certain topics, and updated the online documentation with these responses. (Please keep the comments coming!)
- Posted new articles on the LiveCycle Developer Center such as “Displaying LiveCycle ES process data in Flex graphs” or “Using Java servlets to invoke LiveCycle ES processes”.
- Posted new technical notes on the LiveCycle Knowledge Base to clarify technical issues encountered by you. We continue to roll these type of notes into our documentation for the next release.
- And last, but not least, all of the posts on this new LiveCycle documentation blog.

What are we working on for you for a future release:

- Improving the discoverability of the documentation. This includes redesigning our documentation web page and investigating ways to improve the usability of the documentation and your search experience.
- Providing more “getting started” content for the new LiveCycle user and using new media such as video tutorials.
- Integrating our content with the content on the Developer Center and community contributors.
- Providing more samples and quick starts and making them easier to find and use.

Please continue to send us your feedback on the documentation. This blog is the perfect way to contact us.

And, don’t forget to check out LiveCycle Café and the Tour de LiveCycle. Both of these applications have an abundance of information to help you develop your application or troubleshoot a problem you may have encountered.

Posted by Laurie Cotten at 4:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

LiveCycle ES is a large software solution to get your mind around. You know it, and we know it. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to make it easier for you to delve in and learn all about it.

A more recent addition is the Tour de LiveCycle desktop application provided by our Adobe Evangelist team. This application is designed to both help you get familiar with LiveCycle ES and refer to as an extensive reference tool.

To download and install Tour de LiveCycle or to read more about it, go to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/tourdelivecycle/.

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 2:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

As an Adobe LiveCycle ES user, you have encountered the term LiveCycle ES application; and if you have not, you will. Well, what exactly is a LiveCycle ES application? Is it a process developed in Adobe LiveCycle Workbench ES that uses some forms and form data and allows users to interact with it using Adobe LiveCycle Workspace ES? Is it watched folder solution that enables users to place PDF documents in a folder where they are encrypted by a process created in Workbench ES. Or is it a client application written is Java, web services, or Adobe Flex that invokes LiveCycle ES. Well, the answer may surprise you. The answer is all of the above and much more.

LiveCycle ES is a development platform that lets you develop enterprise solutions to automate business processes. Some companies spend time and effort to process information the old fashion way; that is, by using paper-based forms only. And by doing so, information is lost or a lot of cost is involved processing the paper-based forms. As a LiveCycle ES user, you can use its functionality to develop a LiveCycle ES application to automate business processes. You can use Workbench ES, the LiveCycle ES SDK, or a combination of both. The LiveCycle ES SDK is provided to enable you to create client applications that can invoke LiveCycle ES services.

One type of use case is using both the Workbench ES and the LiveCycle ES SDK. That is, you use Workbench ES to create a process that automates your business processes. Then you can use the LiveCycle ES SDK to create a client application written in Flex, Java, or a development environment that supports web services. The client application is used to invoke the process created in Workbench ES.

For example, if you belong to a company that develops in Java, you can invoke a process from a Java client application. It does not matter if the Java application is an EJB bean, a Java Swing application, a Java servlet, or a console application.

When using the LiveCycle ES SDK, you do not have to create a process using Workbench ES. For example, you can develop a web application that directly invokes a service, such as the Forms service. In this situation, the web application is able to render interactive forms to users in a web browser. To develop this type of data capture application, you use the Forms service Java API. This LiveCycle ES application is created without using Workbench ES. Most LiveCycle ES services have a Java API that enables you to directly invoke the service.

On the other hand, you do not have to develop a client application using the LiveCycle ES SDK either. Instead, you can develop a process by using Workbench ES and then have users interact with the process using Workspace ES. This approach enables a LiveCycle ES application to be developed without any programming involved.

As you can see, when creating LiveCycle ES applications, you have many choices. This is what makes LiveCycle ES a very powerful development platform. Before you start developing an application, it is important to plan your application and have a clear understanding of what you want it to do and how you want users to interact with it.

So in conclusion - the next time you encounter the term LiveCycle ES application, know that it can mean many different types of solutions. This is just a tip that hopefully makes your experience with LiveCycle ES a positive one.

Posted by Scott MacDonald at 4:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Our friends on the Flex Doc team have an exciting announcement on their blog regarding Blueprint. Blueprint is an innovative code-centric search application for Flex Builder 3 and Flash Builder 4.

Posted by Melanie Jackson at 2:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Earlier this week, Adobe launched the Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta program. Flash Builder 4, which is the next evolution of Adobe Flex Builder, includes a long list of feature improvements, new data-centric development features, and a new design-develop workflow with the new Adobe Flash Catalyst.

Continue reading "Adobe Flash Builder 4 Beta: Get it while it’s hot!" »

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 11:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This is not an official Adobe endorsement.

There, I said it. Now that we have that out of the way, I thought I’d share a reference that I’ve come to respect over the last year or so.

http://formulate.com.au

I had the good fortune to meet Ms. Enders at the Business Forms Management Association (BFMA) symposium in Las Vegas last year. I was impressed by her presentation on form design techniques, not the least of which because it seemed like a topic that a lot of form design professionals at the symposium were eager to learn more about. In particular, check out Ms. Ender’s articles section (http://formulate.com.au/articles/). There’s a lot of good information in there that I think is worthwhile reading, for experienced form design professionals and newcomers alike.

Design, and design thinking, is really becoming integrated into all facets of business these days, and it only makes sense that it plays a large role in terms of how organizations implement form solutions. How best to capture user data, I learned at the symposium, is not something that is always well understood. Contemporary research into user behaviors and more effective design is often overlooked by form solutions, which really means that the poor individual who must fill out the form -- sometimes called a “customer” -- is left to suffer. Then, of course, it’s the organization that suffers through additional costs and inefficiencies associated with data entry errors.

Ms. Enders is just one of a number of people out there who are bringing some formal design principles and research to the form design space. If you have links to other sources that you have found useful, please comment directly to this blog and share. We’re always curious to know who our readers are reading, and I’m sure other readers would be interested to know as well.

Have a good day.

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 11:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here’s the list of Knowledge Base tech notes that the LiveCycle ES documentation team has published in the past month:

• Form guides containing custom components cannot preview in Guide Builder or render by using LiveCycle ES (8.2)
• Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES (8.2) included with Adobe Acrobat 9.0 does not include the flex-sdk-description.xml file
• JacORB modifications
• OmniORB modifications
• Updated information for upgrading client applications in LiveCycle ES from 7.x for WebLogic

Other LiveCycle ES teams (like Adobe Support) also publish tech notes. You can search the Knowledge Base for a complete list of tech notes that were published within the last few months.

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 2:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

LiveCycle ES provides a sample application called Output Installation Verification Sample (IVS). The sample is a web application that interacts with the Output ES service to generate PDF or printed output. After you deploy the application, you can browse to the web page it provides and render form designs for testing purposes. So, the Output IVS application enables you to debug the Output ES part of your solution in isolation from the rest of your LiveCycle ES application.

Continue reading "Output IVS – A Useful Output ES Development Tool" »

Posted by Scott Brodersen at 10:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It’s been a while since we gave an update on tech notes. Here’s the list of Knowledge Base tech notes that the LiveCycle ES documentation team has published since November:

• Upgrade process for LiveCycle Business Activity Monitoring ES, version 8.2.1
• LiveCycle Content Services ES Service Pack 1 turnkey requires default directory configured
• Column names in a database used for supplying form object values should not differ by case only
• How to create a custom dictionary for use in LiveCycle Designer ES
• Visible (Print Only) presence option may not work on button objects when target version is Acrobat and Adobe Reader 7.0.5 or later
• Modifying sourceSet in XFA 2.5+Forms
• Compiling custom form guide components with more recent versions of Flex SDK (LiveCycle ES)
•Kerberos authentication between multiple domains may fail on LiveCycle Rights Management ES 8.2.1
• Unable to stop clustered LiveCycle ES server from WebSphere Administration Console
•Out of Memory errors with LiveCycle ES (8.2.1.2) installation on JBoss and MySQL
• LGPL library, JCIFS modified for LiveCycle ES Update 1 Quick Fix
• Clarification of XPath XML usage changes introduced in LiveCycle ES 8.0.1.1
• LiveCycle Workbench ES installation issues a false warning that Adobe Flash Player is not installed
• LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 conflicts with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 when installed on the same computer
• Out of Memory errors with LiveCycle ES JBoss turnkey installation
• Using the proper Workspace ES source code for patched versions of LiveCycle ES

Other LiveCycle ES teams (like Adobe Support) also publish tech notes. You can search the Knowledge Base for a complete list of tech notes that were published within the last few months.

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 10:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

We would love to send each of you a cool plastic ring to help decipher some of the varying terms found in the LiveCycle forums and product documentation. But, since we don't know your ring size, we're providing this one-size-fits-all blog posting instead.

When writing the product documentation, we try to use terms consistently (you can find some of them in the Glossary). But you may run across terms on the message boards (like Adobe LiveCycle Forums and Adobe LiveCycle Developers Google Group) that leave you scratching your head. Hopefully, this table will help you decode the terminology. And, if you run across any other puzzling terminology, please add a comment to this post and we'll try to clear it up for you.

Posted by Melanie Jackson at 1:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

LiveCycle ES is an integrated server solution that provides data capture, information assurance, document output, process management, and content services using a service-oriented architecture. You can learn more about what LiveCycle ES can do by watching these fantastic episodes from LiveCycle Evangelist, Duane Nickull:

• About LiveCycle ES
• Using the LiveCycle ES Java APIs

You can also learn about LiveCycle ES and what it can do by visiting these links:

• Overview of LiveCycle ES
• LiveCycle Dev Center

Posted by Gilbert Yu at 4:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

“I want the documentation to tell me what to do when I don’t know what I want to do.”
- LiveCycle Customer Quote

As technical writers, we deal in information. In essence, we create and publish meaningful information about how to use software products and features for you, our customers. Or at least we like to think we create meaningful information. Every now and then we get the feedback from customers that the documentation we produce is not adequate. Often, we don’t get anything more specific than that, but sometimes, if we are lucky, we’ll get a specific complaint like: add more examples.

We think that part of the problem is that we don’t get very much direct customer feedback. We know you're out there -- somebody is buying our products after all -- but how can we help you do what you do better, faster, etc?

Continue reading "Customer Question: Help" »

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 11:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

The LiveCycle ES Update 1 (8.2) installation includes Assembler IVS, which is a great tool for testing DDX expressions without having to modify a Workbench ES process. The tool also includes some nice examples that illustrate different DDX concepts such as assembling a document, disassembling a document by bookmarks and pages, and converting a PDF document to PDF/A.

Assembler IVS is also a good way to validate your installation as described in the blog entry
Validating a LiveCycle Install posted on the LiveCycle Product Blog. In fact, IVS is an acronym for Installation Verification Sample.

Continue reading "Using Assembler IVS to Test DDX Expressions" »

Posted by Kathy Stone at 8:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Have you ever sat at your desk thinking, now wouldn’t it be great if they thought to put in a feature that did “x” or “y”? Well here’s your chance to speak up!

The Adobe Reader team is eliciting feedback from you. They would like to know what you want to see most in the next few versions of Adobe Reader. Take the survey at the link below, it should take you about 5 minutes.

Adobe Reader Survey

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 10:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The LiveCycle Documentation Team would like to wish all of our readers a happy holiday! And best wishes in the new year!

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 3:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Dear Santa Claus,

How are you? The missus? And the reindeer? Great, great.

Listen, unlike previous years when I provided you a detailed, alphabetical breakdown of the goodies I'd like to receive, this year I've decided to take a different approach. This year I'd like to get you something: Adobe LiveCycle ES. And when I say "get you something", I mean you should get it for yourself.

Continue reading "Letter to Santa Claus" »

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 10:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This article is included in the LiveCycle Documentation blog because it establishes a foundation that will make it easier to understand LiveCycle features related to PDF Packages and PDF Portfolios.

In 2006, the PDF specification added support for document collections, which provide information that PDF viewing applications can use for navigating the files attached to a PDF document. Since then, Adobe® Reader® and Adobe Acrobat® have used the terms PDF Packages and PDF Portfolios to describe these collections. This article explains the history of these terms, and it describes the Acrobat user interface that makes PDF Packages and PDF Portfolios so dynamic.

Continue reading "PDF Packages vs. PDF Portfolios" »

Posted by Kathy Stone at 11:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here is a list of Knowledge Base tech notes that the LiveCycle ES documentation team has published within the last month or so:

- Correction to Process Management Administration Help regarding customizing the content of notifications (kb407226)
- Running LiveCycle PDF Generator ES with an evaluation version of Acrobat Professional (kb407228)
- LiveCycle Rights Management ES 8.2 exception when older clients request policy updates (kb406577)
- LiveCycle Policy Server policy and license migration fails after upgrade to Rights Management ES (kb406469)
- Data loss if PDF size = the size of the LiveCycle ES setting: Default document max inline (kb405476)
- Date information not displayed correctly in form guides if Date/Time fields are displayed using a Text Input Mask (kb406125)

Other LiveCycle ES teams (like Adobe Support) also publish tech notes. You can search the Knowledge Base for a complete list of tech notes that were published within the last 30 days.

Posted by Melanie Jackson at 10:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We’re pleased to announce the release of LiveCycle ES 8.2 Service Pack 1. This release not only addresses a number of customer related issues, but also includes updates to the documentation set.

The following documentation was updated for this release:
- All Installation guides
- All Upgrade guides
- All Clustering guides
- Administering LiveCycle ES guide now includes content for Content Services ES
- LiveCycle ES Error Code Reference
- Hardening and Security for LiveCycle ES
- Several of the admin help systems (Rights Management, User Management
- Contentspace End User and Admin Help
- LiveCycle Workspace ES Help
- LiveCycle Rights Management ES Help
- Three of the admin help systems (Rights Management, User Management, Generate PDF)
- LiveCycle ES Services guide
- Transformation Reference
- Creating Flex Applications Enabled for LiveCycle Workspace ES
- Programming with LiveCycle ES

Check out the resource site at http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_lc_documentation_82 for the latest guides. And don’t forget to read the Release Notes for those last minute updates.

For information on how to obtain this service pack, please refer to your Maintenance and Support welcome package or to the Customer Support portal for contact details.

Posted by Tyler Rushton at 1:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here is a list of Knowledge Base tech notes that the LiveCycle documentation team has published within the last month or so:

• Conversion setting changes in the Generate PDF service are not reflected in Adobe Acrobat (kb405597)
• Form images cannot be retrieved from a remote location at run-time (Acrobat, LiveCycle Designer ES) (kb405595)
• Data loss if PDF size = the size of the LiveCycle ES setting: Default document max inline (kb405476)
• Porting LiveCycle Workspace ES (8.0.1.x) customizations to LiveCycle ES Update 1 (8.2) (kb406317)
• Using the proper Workspace ES source code for patched versions of LiveCycle ES (kb406320)
• LiveCycle Policy Server policy and license migration fails after upgrade to Rights Management ES (kb406469)
• Limitation to using Content Services ES and Connectors for ECM when used in processes (kb405812)
• Potential migration issue between LiveCycle Designer 8.1 and LiveCycle Designer 8.2.1 (kb404758)
• Security patch addresses protected document vulnerability (kb406070)
• Queries required to clean up the LiveCycle Content Services ES database tables (kb405444)
• FTP over SSH is not supported by LiveCycle Workbench ES process invocations (kb404801)
• Configuring SSL authentication for LiveCycle Forms ES and LiveCycle Output ES on UNIX (kb404433)
• Target version and originalXFAVersion (kb404872)

Other LiveCycle teams (like Adobe Support) also publish tech notes. You can search the Knowledge Base for a complete list of tech notes that were published within the last 30 days.

Posted by Scott Brodersen at 3:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

What are LiveDocs?
LiveDocs are a technology developed at Adobe that allows you to provide feedback on our product help documentation. That feedback comes directly to the team responsible for creating the documentation that you commented on.

Providing comments using LiveDocs is one of the best ways to get our attention and make a positive contribution to the larger Adobe community. Other readers will be able to see your comments, as well as any responses we make to you, which helps others who may share the same thoughts or issues. If your comment highlights something we need to change, we make sure that we address the issue for the next time we post the documentation. We also put the offending writer(s) on half rations of food for a month to teach them a lesson ;-)

Can I provide comments on any piece of LiveCycle ES documentation?
Not yet. We still distribute a portion of our documentation as PDFs. However, a significant percentage of our LiveCycle documentation is available in LiveDocs, including (but not limited to):

• LiveCycle Workbench ES Help
• LiveCycle Designer ES Help
• Programming with LiveCycle ES
• LiveCycle ES XDC Editor Help
• LiveCycle ES API Reference
• LiveCycle ES ActionScript Language Reference
• DDX Reference

How do I use LiveDocs?
Using LiveDocs is fairly easy. Before you begin though, you will need to get an Adobe account. There really are benefits to being a member in this case.

Once you have an Adobe account, browse through one of the pieces of documentation available in LiveDocs. Once you open a help system, you will notice an Add Comment button at the bottom of each page in the help. To add a comment, click the Add Comment button. You’ll be asked to sign into your Adobe account, if you aren’t already, and then you’ll be taken to a simple web page with a single Comment field. Type in your feedback, and then click Submit.

Your comment is routed directly to the LiveCycle documentation team to be verified. This step is a must to prevent things like spam and Hello World! style comments. Someone from our team approves the comment and then the writer(s) responsible for the section that you commented on are asked to provide a response within 48 hours. We take that deadline very seriously. You have taken the time to enter a comment, the very least we can do is return the favor.

What kinds of things can I comment on?
If you’re the kind of person who sits in an aromatherapy bath reading through the documentation as if it were one of the great pieces of literature, we want to know why you think so. Similarly, if you read something and think ‘I wouldn’t even line my bird cage with this tripe’, then we want to know why.

In addition, if you have experiences or sample code you want to post for the benefit of other users, then that’s terrific. We are all about bringing people together.

That's it. We look forward to hearing from you!

Posted by Alex Mitchell at 1:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We’re pleased to announce the release of LiveCycle ES 8.0.1 Service Pack 3. This release not only addresses a number of customer related issues, but also includes updates to the documentation set.

New for this revision is the “Using Watched Folders” chapter in the Administering LiveCycle ES guide that provides details on topics such as:

- How Watched Folder works
- How to configure the Watched Folder service
- Planning for performance and scalability
- Failure points and recovery
- Security, tips and tricks, and service-specific recommendations

Also updated for this release are the Configuring LiveCycle ES Application Server Clusters guides for both JBoss and WebSphere application servers.

Check out the resource site at www.adobe.com/go/learn_lc_documentation for the latest guides. And don’t forget to read the Release Notes for those last minute updates.

Posted by Joanne Tait at 12:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

A few new Tech Notes (or Knowledge Base articles) have been published lately for LiveCycle ES, Acrobat, and Adobe Reader. We thought we'd highlight them for you here:

• Using the Web Services service to invoke LiveCycle ES services with document input and output values
• Indirect submit buttons require static references to submit buttons in LiveCycle Workspace ES
• Rendering a form as a static PDF does not produce the expected output for read-only buttons
• Conflicting variable/property scenario causes incorrect behavior in Acrobat 7.x targeted forms
• Navigating through form fields that are disabled generates a warning message
• The selection mark that appears in a check box differs in interactive forms that are viewed in Acrobat 7.x and 8.1 (or later)
• Data entered in the fields located on a master page is lost when the form is saved
• Dynamic form scripts cannot reference PDF form objects in Acrobat 8.x
• Data selected from a drop-down list is not saved when the clearItems method is used in the script
• Cannot modify border color through a script in 3D buttons
• Automatic validation not performed on all clicked form fields
• Differences in events-order triggering by the xfa.host.openList method cause changes in form's layout and behavior

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 3:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yes, we have released LiveCycle ES Update 1. We invite you to visit the resources site at http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_lc_documentation_82 for all of the documentation you’ll need to learn about creating applications and processes using LiveCycle ES. In addition to the documentation, you'll find samples, tutorials, as well as links to other resources such as the developer center, forums, and product support.

If you don’t find what you need, let us know!

Posted by Ginette Thibault at 3:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hi,

We're the team of LiveCycle ES tech writers, and we've created this blog to keep you up to date with news about LiveCycle ES resources. We'll be posting news about product documentation, Knowledge Base articles, new tutorials....we'll also provide tips and tricks on using LiveCycle ES, as well as a heads-up on (dare we say it) inaccuracies that made it into the product help.

We'd like to hear from you too...drop us a comment on what you'd like to see in this blog, or anything else.

Enjoy!

Posted by Tasmina Patel at 2:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)