How to Calculate in Adobe Livecycle ES
Creating calculations is a fundamental part of creating form templates in Adobe's LiveCycle Developer ES software. Creating LiveCycle calculations is a straightforward process, but does require a degree of experience with writing calculations in one of LiveCycle's supported programming languages.
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Instructions
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Select the form object. This form object must be capable of supporting events, as calculations are considered events in LiveCycle.
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Open the "Show" drop-down menu. Select one of the available events from the drop-down menu.
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Open the "Language" drop-down menu. Select whether you want to use FormCalc or JavaScript. Keep in mind that this will be the language in which you will be scripting.
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Open the "Run At" drop-down menu. Select where you want to run this calculation: client, server or both client and server.
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Enter your script in the "Script Source" field. This can be either a FormCalc calculation or JavaScript code, depending on which scripting language you selected earlier.
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Tips & Warnings
The only LiveCycle objects that do not support events are Circles, Content Areas, Lines, Rectangles, Images, Subform Sets, Table sections and Text.
