Creating Nested Radio Buttons

Hi
Just returned from a customer visit,the customer had to convert a paper form in to PDF Form and this involved creating nested radio buttons. It was quite a challenge to get the radio buttons positioned correctly and making them visible/invisible.
I thought it would be a good sample to share.The trick is to have all the radio buttons as part of one exclusion group, then you manipulate its x and y positions to indent the child nodes of the radio button
The following link gets you to the form and the xdp
Nested Radio Buttons
Let me know if you have any questions/comments

Populating form field with the process initiator name

Almost all processes require process initiators name to be automatically populated in the form.Doing this is very simple,but populating the field only once when the process is created requires some logic to be put in the render service.The document at this link Populating a form with process initiator explains the finer details and also has the process archive.All you need to do is import the archive and start the process from workspace. when the form opens you should see your name in the form.
As usual comments/suggestions are welcome
Happy pre populating and rendering!

Disabling all fields when submitting PDF by Email

This is in response to a request I received earlier today.The request was “How do I submit PDF by Email, and when the PDF reaches the recipient, all the form fields should be set to read only”. I have created a simple form which sets all form fields to read only once the user clicks the “Email Submit Button”. The script which sets the fields to read only is in the MouseDown event of the EmailSubmit button. I have put the xdp,script to set the fields to read only in a PDF as file attachments which can be accessed by clicking here(Click on the paper clip icon to access file attachments)
Submit PDF By Email
To ReaderExtend the PDF form which will allow Adobe Reader users to submit the form follow the instruction mentioned here
How to ReaderExtend form using Acrobat
Let me know if you have any questions

Submit PDF by email

when you design a pdf form which needs to be submitted by email, the default behavior is to submit the xml data of the form as an xml attachment of the email. But it so happens a lot of users would like to get the whole,complete pdf in the email. There are two ways to accomplish this – one way is to use livecycle server to ReaderExtend the form, or you can use acrobat to Apply Usage Rights to the form. If you do not have livecycle server but have Acrobat then you can follow the steps mentioned below achieve your goal
Open the LiveCycle Form Designer
Create your form
Then drag a button on to the form
select the button, then go to its object pallete, in the Field Tab make sure the control type is “Submit”.Then go the submit tab, make sure the submit drop down list is “PDF”, in the submit to url text box type in “mailto:
save the from as PDF
Then open the form in Acrobat
Under Advanced menu there is a option called “Enable Usage Rights in Reader”. Select this option then it asks to save your form.Save the form. This form can now be emailed when the user clicks the submit button

Re Assigning Tasks

What do you do when you have to re assigns tasks assigned to user A to user B? I have written a custom component which re assigns tasks in a batch mode from one user to another user. The custom component is called TaskUtilities which has 3 service operations which add attachments to a task,get attachments from a task, and re assigns tasks
Click the link below to get the custom component
TaskReAssignment
Please let me know if you have any questions/feedback

Pre Populating a drop down list

I have written a simple process which highlights the steps needed to pre populate a drop down list in a PDF form. The link below takes you to a PDF document which has the custom component,process xml,xdp used for rendering.
pre-populate-drop-down-list

Let me know if you need any help/clarifications on the process