Are There Expandable Text Fields?

Hi Tammi, sorry I'm just getting around to looking at this - busy time of the year!  Do you still need assistance or have you figured it out?

Tammie, post your form to the forum and we'll take a look.

Kevn

Hi~

I have started a new form and was wondering if someone could look at it to see if I am doing it (or at least some of it) correctly before I continue on.

Thanks,

Tammie

PS:  I never did figure out my first project, that's still on the back burner!

Well so much for that idea.  Now I can't figure out how to get the text field and text boxes to be beside each other.

Omg...this is so frustrating!!

Thanks again for all your help Paul.  I was working on a test page today and so far things seem to be flowing correctly.  I too am going

to just start my document over and put in the subforms, etc as I go along as I did on my test page.  I cannot get my typed document to flow properly.

Take Care~

Tammie

Ahh.  Alright, that did help a lot.  I think rebuilding might be easier than cleaning up this mess I have.

You can keep your formatting. The secret is in breaking up the page into logical parts. For exampel Header, addres block, repeating rows, questions, answers footers. Then you woudl wrap all of the objects that make upa section into a Positioned subform that is below the flowed subform. There is a good example of this technique in the samples that ship. Have a look at this one in particular....start from your Designer install folder and locate this structure:

\EN\Samples\Forms\Purchase Order\Dynamic Interactive\Forms

Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks a lot for you help.  I had a feeling I knew what your answer was giong to be and that I wouldn't like it.  Unfortunatly the text resizing option will not work in this situation.  Is is possible to see how you formated the one page?  The formatting and the left justification is the biggest issue.  I would like to keep the format as much as possible while having the text expandable.  Does this mean I need every object in one subform?  Including all the text boxes and radial buttons?

Thanks.

The way you have built your form is limiting your ability to make it flow. I worked on the last page only to give you a feel for what you will need to do. The addition of the lines surrounding the boxes is not a good idea on a static form (unless you are only dealing with horizontal lines. The vertical lines will not grow or resize based on the size of a field. A better option is to use the border tab on the field object. This will grow according to field size and will give you the effect you desire. You have one big text field that is spaced appropriately for the captions of each field. The text box does not know anything about the isze of the field so this is not good either. I changed this to use the caption property of the field (setting the location for the caption on top) and this gives the same effiect but because it is tied to the field will react when field size is changed. Lastly the page subform needs to be set to flowed for the fields to be resized. In doing this all fields are left justified to the content area. I then added a top and left margin of .75 in to the Page subform to  get the position where you wanted it. On a multipage form this can become tricky as you woudl not define pages anymore .....simply letting the fields flow and letting the product decide where the page breaks go is what is required. You woudl only define Page1 and put everything on that page (at Design time).

This will be a lot of work to redo the form ....another option is to have the text resized to fit the box as the users type info into the field. I did this on page 3 in the comments fields. The issue here is that if they type in too much info the font becomes so small it is not readable. The advantage is that you do not have to redo the whole form. let me know if you want to do this and I will show you how it is done.

Paul