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How to have dynamic size of the content area

Former Member
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Hello everyone

I am trying to create a printable adobe form using Adobe LiveCycleDesiner 8.

Here is my problem.

The PageMaster is containing the company Logo, Address and the ship to address.

The ship to address can be composed by up to 11 lines. Those lines are not always used. Some addresses have only 5 lines.

If I am reserving those 11 lines before the content area, we are loosing alot of space that can be used for the body page.

So the question is:

Is it possible to have a flowed content area? Where the size of the content area would be driven by the available space of the PageMaster?

Regards

stjacqd

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Former Member
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Thank you all for your comments.

Based on it, the answer is:

We cannot have dynamic content area.

Regards

dstj

OttoGold
Active Contributor
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Hello,

You need to create a subform (parent) with two children: header and lines. And this parent subform will be a row of the table which will be repeated. Example: You have 42 rows, 20 on every page

Subform form1

Subform page1 (row, repeat for each data item)

Subform header

Sbform lines - 20 lines

Repeat: page1, next 20 lines, header is included

Repeat: page1, last 2 lines, header included

Regards, Otto

Former Member
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you must use flowed in your subforms in adobe

regards

carsten

Former Member
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Hello Carsten

The subform has no impact to the content area size.

The subform has an impact only inside the content area or inside another form.

My point is:

PageMaster

-----------------------------------------------
|  Logo                                          |
| Address1                   Address      |
| Address2                   Address      |
| Address3                   Address      |
| Address4                   Address      |
| Address5                   Address      |
| Address6                   Address      |
| Address7                   Address      |
| Address8                   Address      |
| Address9                   Address      |
| Address10                 Address      |
| Address11                 Address      |
|---------------------------------------------------|
| Content area                               |
|                                                   |

So, inside the Page Master there is 11 lines reserved for the addresses,

But at the printout, if there are only 3 lines used for the address, I would like to reassign the space used by the address4 through adderss11 to the content area.

So the result at printout will look like:

----------------------------------------------
|  Logo                                          |
| Address1                   Address      |
| Address2                   Address      |
| Address3                   Address      |
|---------------------------------------------------|
| Content area                               |
|                                                   |

Instead of:

--------------------------------------------
|  Logo                                          |
| Address1                   Address     |
| Address2                   Address     |
| Address3                   Address     |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|                                                   |
|---------------------------------------------------|
| Content area                               |
|                                                   |

Regards

chintan_virani
Active Contributor
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Well if the Ship To address is going to be dynamic then place it outside the master page, in some subform.

Ideally Master page should contain objects which are static like logo, header etc which you want to show in every page.

Chintan

Former Member
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Hello Chintan

I tried to put the address into a subform inside the content area but I had the following problem.

1. A subforn (Header page) that should be print on each pages.

2. A second subform that is containing the items.

When the quantity of items exceed the first page, I need to have the subform (Header page) reprint before the Items continued to print on the next page.

Actually, my subform (header Page) is not reprinting. So the item continue to print on the next page but the header page is not printed.

Regards

dstj