May 2009 Archives

Now all you LiveCycle documentation hunters can look at a single location to find all LiveCycle related information....on your desktop...thats right...and its actually true.

Adobe released Tour De LiveCycle yesterday, a comprehensive AIR app that locks all aspects of LiveCycle documentation on your desktop. It will remind you of Flex explorer in its look and feel but encompasses videos, presentations, tutorials and hands on examples on all aspects of livecycle (Data services, BAM, Workbench etc) .

It can be downloaded here:

I have been struggling with data manipulation with rich text fields for a while. For those who aren't familiar with rich text fields in LiveCycle, they are simple text fields with the data format = XHTML.

This allows the text field (text area) to work like Microsoft word. The end user is able to edit the text, make it bold, underline it, hyperlink web addresses etc etc.

In my case, i had to concatenate 2 pieces of rich text fields into a rich text area. The usual rawValue and formattedValue XFA properties loose the formatting if used for rich text areas.

I have attached a sample XDP that shows you how to do it  "properly".

Armaghan.
RichTextCopyExample.xdp

For the regular J2EE/Java programmers that use the amazing Tomcat as their Servlet container, i found an amazing link. It steps through the necessary configurations to debug your servlets....an awesome find :)

http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing

Share what you learn...and Happy Coding :)