Listing all fields in a form - The macro - Part Two

I have added some new columns to the Designer ES macro that creates a list of all the XFA objects within a form.

The new columns are;

• somExpression
• presence
• field type (rich text or plain text)
• the maximum length of the text field

The new macro can be downloaded here, XFAObjectLister.zip.

More details here, Listing all fields in a form - The macro.

Adobe LiveCycle Designer Tip #6 - Subform Indicators

One of the new features of Designer ES2 was Subform Indicators.  These are the green subform icons that appeared on the Design view.  Also as part of ES2 there was new option under the View menu to turn them off, which I did straight away as I didn’t see the use of them.

So if you are like me and did not realised that you can click on them to select the subform, you might what to give them another go.  They are particularly useful when you have many subforms sharing a top edge.

Now all we need is an indicator to allow us to select an exclGroup