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Submitting PDF to a servlet

Girish Bedekar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:10:41 +0000

I have written a simple servlet which writes the submitted pdf to the c drive of the server. I have written the instructions in the pdf document which can be found here
Click here to access the pdf
Download the war file
Deploy it on your server
Design your form with a submit button configured to submit “PDF” and pointing to the url
The url should be of the following format

http://:/SaveToFile/SavePdf

in my case it was http://ginger:8080/SaveToFile/SavePdf. Where ginger:8080 is my server and port no.
Save the form and hit the submit button
The form will get submitted to the servlet which writes the pdf to the c drive of the server
Let me know if you need any more help
thanks
girish

Extracting Data from Signed PDF using LiveCycle Server

Girish Bedekar — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:42:20 +0000

Very common request- how do I extract data from a Signed PDF using livecycle ES
To do this you will need to have livecycle server software installed. This example uses processFormSubmission service operation of the forms component.
Attached is the PDF which explains the process and it also has the process lca and the test file need to run the process
Click here
This process can be used when you are getting the signed PDF from email/watchedFolder. This process can also be used when you are submitting the signed pdf from workspace

Adding Attachments to PDF Form

Girish Bedekar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:24:23 +0000

Hi
Just finished helping a customer who wanted to add attachments to PDF using javascript. There are 2 ways to add attachments to a PDF form
1- using the attachments tab
2- Using javascript- with the help of a button the user selects the file to add to the pdf
I have included the PDF which allows the user to add attachment , view the attachment and deleted the selected attachment from the form.
Please click here to access the formPDF Form
PS- THIS WILL ONLY WORK WHEN YOU OPEN THE FORM WITH ACROBAT.IF YOU WANT IT TO WORK IN READER YOU WILL NEED TO APPLY USAGE RIGHTS USING THE READER EXTENSIONS ON THE SERVER

Emailing to all members of a group

Girish Bedekar — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:35:51 +0000

I have written a simple process which lets you email to all members of a group
This process takes in the name of a group as input parameter and emails to all members of the group
Before invoking the process make sure you have set the configuration settings of the email component(the last step of the process)
Click here to get the pdf file which has the process
Click here to get the pdf
Let me know if you have any further questions
thanks
girish

Using Namespace in Workbench

Girish Bedekar — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:04:05 +0000

The xml returned by webservices invariably use namespaces. To access data contained in the xml you would need to declare namespace . To declare namespace you would select the process,right click the process select properties, click the advanced tab to create namespaces
For example the following is a example of namespace declared in workbench
greg http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
where greg is the namespace prefix
I have included a simple process which makes a web service call to Amazon, using namespace I get data out of the response. The following is an example of using namespace in workbench
/process_data/xmlData/greg:Envelope/greg:Body/cole:ItemLookupResponse/cole:Items/cole:Item/cole:ItemAttributes
Click here to get the PDF

Modifying email when emailing a form

Girish Bedekar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:09:11 +0000

Very common request – I am able to email a pdf form great, but how do I change the email recipients,Subject,Body. I found a very useful post on Stefan Cameron’s blog

http://forms.stefcameron.com/2008/08/28/submitting-form-data-by-email/

I copied his code to create a similar form
The form is posted hereClick here to get the pdf
This form submits the whole pdf as email attachment.
If you are using Acrobat 8.x and above you will have no problem is testing the form out
But if you are using Reader to test the form, it will not work unless you Apply Reader Rights
The instruction to apply Reader rights are here

http://eslifeline.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/submit-pdf-by-email/

Let me know if you have any questions
Thanks
Girish

Disabling Form Fields with validation

Girish Bedekar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:27:00 +0000

Many a times you would like to perform field level validations, before submitting the form by email. Also a lot of you would like to hide the submit button when the form is emailed to the end user
I have included a simple form which demonstrates this capability
Please click here to get the pdf
Click Here to get the pdf
Let me know if you have any further questions

Extracting Data From Xml File

Girish Bedekar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:30:29 +0000

Recently I was given the following xml

geebee@yahoo.com
tblue@yahoo.com
apink@yahoo.com

The customer wanted to email the persons listed in the emails element. They wanted to use the email component provided by livecycle. The email component takes a comma separated string when you want to email multiple people. So I used setValue component to extract the emai id’s and put them into a list. The list was then converted into a comma separated string of email addresses.
I also used the script component to accomplish the same. I have put both the solutions as file attachment . Feel free to download and deploy the lca and try it out
Click here to get the pdfhandling-repeating-elements4

Assembling Task Attachments

Girish Bedekar — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:32:50 +0000

Lot of customers have a need to assemble task attachments into a single PDF at the end of the process for archiving. I have written a simple process which shows you the steps involved. I have made use of two custom components for this exercise.
The following document contains a process which assembles task attachments into a PDF
Click here to get the PDF
Let me know if you need any more help

Creating DDX from list of file names

Girish Bedekar — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:59:58 +0000

I have written a simple component which creates a DDX from a list of file names. It is very common to create a package or assemble a map of documents. To do this you would have to create a DDX which needs to match the file names of documents in the map. To avoid all that hard work, I have a component which creates a DDX from list of file names.

The process also makes use of another component which writes out map contents to the file system

I have attached the process in the PDF file
Click here to access the PDF file
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