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January 31, 2006
Getting Started with LiveCycle Designer
The third and final article (ZIP file with sampe files here) in the series "Getting Started with LiveCycle Designer" is now online at the (slightly) revamped Adobe LiveCycle Designer Developer Center. The first and second articles in the series are also available, in .zip format.
Its worthwhile to note that the (slightly) revamped Adobe LiveCycle Designer Developer Center has a look that more closely resembles the Macromedia developer centers. (This is also the first article for Adobe LiveCycle developers that appears on Macromedia's developer homepage. Hooray for integration!). This is in line with what we want to achieve with the other LiveCycle developer centers. Posting photos of the authors and providing bio information helps to build the community around LiveCycle. (BTW, if you want to be featured and write content for us, we'd love to feature you and / or your company... Contact me by email to get started.) Combine that with blogging, an increased presence in our online forums, and a monthly enterprise developer newsletter that keeps everyone up to date on what we're doing with Adobe enterprise software and the Adobe Enterprise Developer Program, and you've got the start of a compelling online community dedicated to helping developers build awesome software with Adobe products.
If you haven't checked out Adobe LiveCycle Designer, then Paul's three articles will definitely help you get up and running quickly. When you're ready to move on past Designer, the Enterprise Developer Program is here to provide you with software (1 year individual developer licenses) and support (1 year of email based developer support) to make sure you get up and running quickly.
January 24, 2006
Tips for Adobe LiveCycle Workflow
Over the past month, we've created a bunch of tips for developers building solutions with Adobe LiveCycle Workflow... Here's a list of them. If you'd like to contribute content to us, which we will post on our developer centers (giving you all the credit, of course), then please contact me either by email or as a reply to this post. We need more tips and samples for developers to use, and are willing to highlight you and or your company and the work that you do.
Oh, and by the way, you'd also be getting this information if you were subscribed to my monthly Adobe Enterprise Developer newsletter.
Pre-populating forms - Follow this tip to pre-populate a form using Adobe LiveCycle Workflow.
Accessing workflows from email notifications - Follow this tip to allow LiveCycle Workflow users to access workflow items from email notifications.
Preserving digital signatures - Follow this tip for alternate solutions for preserving digital signatures while exchanging forms using Adobe LiveCycle Workflow.
Initiating a workflow process via an email - Follow this tip to initiate a LiveCycle Workflow process via an email.
Integrating HTML forms with workflows - Adobe LiveCycle Workflow allows users to participate in workflows with forms presented in either HTML or PDF format. Follow this tip to ensure that HTML form users can participate in workflows.
Submitting forms with digital signatures - Use this tip to help with submitting forms with digital signatures.
January 19, 2006
Overview of LiveCycle
I gave an overview of Adobe LiveCycle products for Adobe (formerly MM) user group leaders and corporate champions. You can view the Breeze presentation online, if you missed it or want to see it.
Oh, and to address the comments for the Designer "Mike's Monday" Breeze meetings, I'm planning to record them and post them in a similar manner, so you can watch them at will.
January 16, 2006
Flash / JS Integration
This is a great example of integrating Flash and Javascript, in a way that enhances the experience for end users. If you're interested in doing something similar for your site, check out the instructions on how to do it, and then add a comment to this blog with a URL to your sample site. It just goes to show you that Flash and Javascript can live together happily, side by side. I think I'm safe to say that a similar experience for end users written entirely in Javascript would have been much more complicated, and time consuming, to write.
January 13, 2006
Ideas for presentations / instructions?
I would like to start hosting "Mike's Mondays" (using Adobe Breeze) to help developers with some of our products. The first one I'd like to start with is LiveCycle Designer. What types of instructional material would you like to see with LiveCycle Designer? Give me your ideas, and then I'll setup a Breeze meeting / instructional hour to help you solve your problems with LC Designer.
Comparing form fields in Acrobat, Designer and Flash
Carl Young, who puts together a great PDF conference, has posted a great tutorial showing the difference in form fields in Acrobat, LiveCycle Designer and Flash. Carl also has a list of tips for Acrobat 7 and LiveCycle Designer 7, including a great tutorial on how to connect to a webservice using LiveCycle Designer. I am working on posting a similar tutorial on how to build a simple Amazon store search inside a PDF document.