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Are There Expandable Text Fields?

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June 18, 2009
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Actual Question:

Okay, am new to Acrobat and LiveCycle. I have gone through about 9 hours of videos and still can not find an answer to what I know I should be able to do. Is there a way on a form to create a text field which has the ability to expand its size versus creating a scroll bar so when you print the form it is not chopped off and missing? This is a 2 page form so a text box has the possibiltiy it could split between 2 pages.

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Best answer by Kevin_Cavallo

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sophieh54039965

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Hi Paul I am after this exact same solution an expandable text box that pushes the signatures down and keeps them on the end but i have no access to Lifecycle, they have stopped the trials and its really not worth the price to me to edit one form for work! If it is edited in live cycle can others with just adobe still fill in the editable pdf and would I still be able to make changes such as add logos? Any help appreciated. Thanks

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kimi9895946

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I'm a newbie and I'm not finding where the layout tab is and the other items.

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Bferg23

New Participant

Hi Paul, having similar issue with an incident form.

How could I attach or send you a copy of the pdf to have a look at?

Brian

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Bferg23

New Participant

Hi Kevin,

I need help with this for sure. I am just not getting it. Like a similar poster I need Description Of Incident on an incident report form to be an expanding text box like your example.

How can I send you a copy of the pdf form to see if we can work with it?

Brian

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eric_brand

New Participant

Can someone help me with this? I have a similar issue. The test text overflow form is almost exactly what I need.

Im trying to get the text field Concat box only Concat text in (TextField1) but when it Concat's I want a ";" after each 10 characters. Please help!

$ = Concat(TextField1_";")

So essentially users can enter or paste into TextField1 a column of numbers:

0123456789

1234567901

2364567890

and TextField5 will separate like this:

0123456789;1234567901;2364567890

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ihsanc

New Participant

Hi,

I thought I followed the instructions you provided but I am still having some difficulty with expanding text. I am able to get the textboxes to expanding, however, the subform is running off the page (without creating a new page.) Can you let me know what I did wrong and how I can fix that.

(Also, how can I upload the form so you can see it?)

Thanks!

Ihsan

elinayakubov

New Participant

Hi Kevin,

I hope you will be able to read this and help me . I got the expandable fields to work but I cannot figure out how to stop it from messing up the layout of the form and not run onto the next line (see p.1 'Comments' under the Professional Competence section). I tried the 'wrap in subform' but it won't work. I only selected that name 'TextField1' and wrapped that in subform. Am I supposed to select more items then just that?

Thanks so much for any help!!

Elina

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SYEDFAZ26

New Participant

Hi Guys,

Need some help here. i have to display large text for user to read and scroll up and down as the text data is large. I am using adobe livecycle 8. Anyway i can achieve this with out overlapping the text i am typing in designer mode outside the text box size i choose.

Thanks in advance.