Adobe LiveCycle ES Cookbook

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• Extract results from Connector for IBM CM, search operation
  • Raghu A 
  •   September 30, 2010
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  Problem

  Connector for IBM CM provides a search operation which would search your IBM CM repository for a property value and return back the results in a List format. The problem is how to properly interpret the list returned by the operation?

  Solution

  The list search operation returns an object of type List<DocInfo>. For details on what DocInfo contains one can take a look at the API documentation available at adobe site. In short a DocInfo object contains all the major information required like content (in case of a document), objectType, pid, version, parentFolder indication, and other attributeNameValuePairs.

• Renewing the context to handle session expiry
  • Chetan Mehrotra 
  •   October 22, 2009
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  Problem

  Using the same instance of ServiceClientFactory to remotely invoke the services exposed by the LiveCycle container can lead to exception related to assertion expiry

  Solution

  To handle the timeout use the ThrowHandler mechanism provided by the ServiceClientFactory framework

• Using the Common Building Block to add an aspect/interceptor to a DSC class
  • Ashish Vashisht 
  •   October 23, 2009
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  Problem

  While working on a LiveCycle project with multiple services, you may require the addition of an aspect/interceptor to all your services.

  Solution

  The Common Building Block (part of the Adobe LiveCycle Solution Accelerator program) comes with several scripts and utility classes which allow an interceptor to be added to a DSC. This can be integrated into your existing LiveCycle application build script as this cookbook shows

• Sorting tables in dynamic PDF
  • $Nith$ 
  •   June 21, 2011
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  Problem

  While creating interactive forms with table of data in it, it is helpful to the form users if the data columns in the table are sortable. I have addressed this requirement is ubiquitous; hence wrote a sample Javascript function which sorts the table column's in ascending/descending order

  Solution

  The sorting can be done with few simple steps as shown below: 1. Exporting the Table data into an XML variable 2. Create a two dimensional array and initialize the array with the XML data 3. Sort the two-dimensional array 4. Update the table data 5. Re-merge the form layout with the modified data

• Integrating Adobe Creative Suite CS5 with backend distributed data via Adobe LiveCycle Data Services and Adobe Creative Suite Extension Builder
  • irpaterson 
  •   May 19, 2010
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  Problem

  Integrating Creative Suite with a back-end system, say a relational database management system or some other enterprise content management system.

  Solution

  You can quickly integrate Adobe Creative Suite CS5 with LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS), using Creative Suite Extension Builder and the Flex platform. With Creative Suite Extension Builder and LiveCycle Data Services, it becomes comparatively easy to build a CS5 extension that connects the Creative Suite desktop to something like a relational database management system (RDBMS).