This course introduces and describes various techniques for using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.1 to create electronic forms that can complement, or supercede, other means of collecting and presenting enterprise data. After this course you will be able to create static and dynamic interactive forms that can reduce data collection and processing errors, and enhance the user experience. The course covers basics of form design, dynamic form layouts and advance techniques for adding intelligence to your forms.

Introduction to Acrobat 8 Professional features

Creating a form within Acrobat Automatic form field recognition Enablement of PDF with forms intelligence for Adobe Reader Securoty options

Introduction to AdobeLivecycle Designer

Exploring templates Conversion of existing PDF into Livecycle Conversion of Word files into Livecycle

User interface and workspace

User workspace and options Customising panels and formatting objects Master pages tab XML tab Preview (render) PDF tab

Form basics

Grids, Rulers, Guides and Object boundaries Guidelines definitions Snap to grid and display options Adding and removing pages Changing form paper size Saving a form as a Designer template Template Manager Keyboard Basics Customise menu appearances

Library objects

Favourites Standard Custom Barcodes Adding content from library Adding contect to a library Custom shared library location

Formatting objects

Text formatting Object formatting Alignment Distribute Multiply Group and ungroup Stacking order Lock and unlocking objects

Checking content

Rending form content Examining rendering errors Spell checking

Exploring form buttons

Dropping form buttons into layout Configuration options Building drop downs Buiolding list boxes Building radio buttons Adding reset, print and submit buttons Adding a barcode Accessibility options

Distribution workflow

Preparing a form for distribution Publishing via web Sending out via email Collecting data via Acrobat PDF Packages Export to .csv Options for javascript subnmission

• An understanding of form design processes and form-based business processes
• Familiarity with Javascript
• An understanding of computer programming concepts and XML
• Basic understanding of web services and Service Oriented Architecture

Professionals needing to intelligently capture information to streamline form-driven business processes through automation. You will learn to deploy secure XML-based forms as PDF or HTMLover any platform or device without requiring the user to have any new software or plug-ins. This is a Fundamentals-level course and intended for:

• Form Designers
  
• Form Developers

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create a static interactive form, that includes master and body pages, using Adobe Designer 7.1, and manually configure appropriate Designer objects
  
• Describe how data sources are used for data handling and form design, and create an interactive form from at least two different data description types
  
• Describe the relevant XFA-based object models and implement business logic in a form design by creating scripts, in two scripting languages, that execute client-side
  
• Create a dynamic form that adapts to accommodate varying amounts of data, or to user interaction