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Anonymous
August 28, 2008

I want to add a page to a form

  • August 28, 2008
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I am very very new to using Live Cycle. In fact, I stumbled upon it when we upgraded to Acrobat 8. I just finished using Live Cycle to design our company's new hire forms package. This consists of 12 pages of forms - and the HR manager insists it has to be one file. My question is, if I need to make edits to one of the forms, I can't seem to delete the page and insert a new one.



Is this not possible once it's made into a multiple page form?



I'm using LiveCycle Designer 8.0

Acrobat 8.0

Windows XP Pro

Dell Precision laptop

HP Laserjet 4250 printer
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    Shrutiaman
    New Participant
    June 17, 2012

    Livecycle Menu > Window > Hierarchy should be ticked > Hierarchy pane on the left > Beneath form 1 should be (untitled Subform) (page 1) > Right-click > New page

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    8i010g1x
    New Participant
    July 27, 2012

    I have recently run into exactly the same problem.  Catherine's suggestion was spot on.  Windows > Heirarchy > Select the last page > Edit > Duplicate Page.  Then I renamed the page and everything was awesome.  Until... I finished designing the additional page, adding all of my fields and text.  I saved the form and then previewed it in PDF Preview.  However the page I added on was not there.  I went back to the desktop and opened the file in Adobe Reader.  It will only register the 1st 4 pages, and does not register the 5th page, which is the page I added on.  It's there, I can see it in the design view.  But it will not show up in the PDF Preview and will not print when opened with Adobe Reader.  #Stumped.

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    Anonymous
    October 18, 2011

    oops: it's not a right-click, you have to choose Edit > Duplicate when you've selected the page in the hierarchy.

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    Anonymous
    October 18, 2011

    This seems to work:

    go to the page below where you want to insert the new page. Show the Hierarchy (Windows >Hierarchy). In the hierarchy, right-click the page you are on and select Duplicate Page. It will rename the page and insert a dupe, eg Page 6[0] and Page 6[1]. You can then change the content on one of the pages. That's as far as I got so far, I'll have to see if this works or if the forms filling gets completely screwed up.

    Mama mia!

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    Anonymous
    October 18, 2011

    This is unbelievable! Isn't someone from Adobe going to comment on this problem?

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    MaryseG
    New Participant
    September 21, 2011

    What worked for me was to:

    1) Open the form already developped in Adobe Acrobat and extract all pages to a new document. All form fields are still working in the new document

    2) Once the new document opens up, add a new page and continue developping the form...

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      TruSake
      New Participant
      October 13, 2012

      MaryseG

      Solution works 100%

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      kennyboy2001
      New Participant
      August 28, 2011

      I don't know what the official Adobe process is on this but here is what I do...as I have run into the same issue. I'm learning LiveCycle with docs and some level of trial and error.

      • Go to "New Page" (Menu - Insert >> New Page). 
      • Go the the Hierachy pane (Menu - Window >> Hierachy). 

      You will see that LiveCycle has added a new page to the end of your document. Depending on how long your doc is ot the number of elements, you may want to collapse all of your pages in this view by selection the [-] icon next to each page. Find the new page whish has been added at the bottom of the list.Drag and drop it into the your desired insert position in your doc.

      I have not tried to add an external page; Just tried blank.

      Hope this helps somewhat.

      Ken

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      paulk07
      New Participant
      September 18, 2011

      Try this:

      Add a footer to your page.  Add two buttons (ADD & DELETE) to the footer.

      On the click event of the ADD button (javascript):

      form1.page1._body.addInstance(1);

      if (form1.page1._body.count > 1) {

          form1.page1.footer.deleteBtn.presence = "visible";

      }

      else {

          form1.page1.footer.deleteBtn.presence = "hidden";

      }

      body is the name of my subform on page1. 

      On the click of the Delete:

      form1.page1._body.removeInstance(1);

      if (form1.page1._body.count > 1) {

          form1.page1.footer.deleteBtn.presence = "visible";

      }

      else {

          form1.page1.footer.deleteBtn.presence = "hidden";

      }

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      KellyC191
      New Participant
      August 25, 2011

      Here's what I'm going to try.

      Create the second page as a separate form.

      Open the original form (page 1).

      When you're not in Edit Form mode, you can add a page from a file. So, add the 2nd page and it should become a 2-page form.

      I haven't tried this, but maybe it will work.I can't believe how difficult it is to use this software sometimes. It could be made much more user-friendly.

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      aitorl
      New Participant
      May 26, 2011

      The clue when importing a pdf into Adobe Lifecycle in order to generate a new Page, is to drag and drop the pages that Adobe Lifecycle generates under the section Pages into the section named (Master Pages).

      Then you will be able to add as many pages as you want.

      Be good!!

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      G0V_
      New Participant
      October 27, 2010

      Wonderful.

      Just another shortcoming of those forms and LC designer in general I guess...

      Unable to add page because followed the steps from the wizard.

      After two days of work & fine tuning I can just start over because I want to add a page :-\

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      gkaiseril
      New Participant
      February 6, 2009
      You can make your forms in Acrobat. LiveCycle Desinger is an XML form within a PDF wrapper and many features of Acrobat are lost. This is also why there are differences with LiveCycle Designer's JavaScript and Acrobat JavaScript.
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