September 2011 Archives

A common issue when designing large forms is getting the Custom Tab Order tool to behave properly. There comes a point where it becomes completely unusable.

My recommended workaround is to redesign the form for use with Automatic Tabbing. Take the following example:

Automatic tabbing always goes top/down, left/right. So in order to get the tabbing to work its way down each client section, we just need to wrap them inside their own subforms:

Now this works for most forms, but what if you wanted the tabbing to go from Client1 to Client3? The answer is more subforms ! Selecting the subforms for Client1 and Client3 I wrap them both into yet another subform, I then wrap Client2 and Client4 into their own subform. The result is this:

 We've dealt with a variety of issues relating to multi-threaded conversions and the root cause always seems to be the same: the users were added through the configuration manager. A bug has been logged with Adobe, so this should be gone by the time ADEP releases later this year.

In the meantime we have a simple workaround: add your users through the adminUI instead (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/9.0/adminHelp/admin.htm?content=000159.html)

We've received a few reports of Reader not being able to submit e-mail requests to the new Outlook2010 64bit. We did some research and found that this is a known with Microsoft that is affecting any application that makes 32bit MAPI requests to the suite.

There is no word on a fix yet, but we do have a workaround you can use in the meantime. It tricks Outlook into using the 32bit MAPI driver already included with the software:

1. Browse to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail]
2. Create a new key called Outlook64Bridge
3. Right-click Outlook64Bridge and create two keys under it: DLLPath and DLLPathEx
4. Find the 32 bit version of the file MAPI32.dll and assign the whole qualified pathname to each key, mine were:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Outlook64Bridge\DLLPath - "D:\WINDOWS\system32\mapi32.dll"
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Outlook64Bridge\DLLPathEx - "D:\WINDOWS\system32\mapi32.dll"
5. Lastly, return to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail] and change the (Default) value to "Outlook64Bridge" (this sets the default mail client).
6. Reboot and you're done!