Adobe Acrobat 9: Forms and JavaScript

Overview

This course is for experienced Acrobat users who intend to use on-line forms on their website or intranet. It shows how to enhance Acrobat forms by JavaScript programming. (No previous JavaScript experience is necessary.)

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Audience

Suitable for delegates with several months experience of using Acrobat 9 Professional who are familiar with both the basic and advanced features of the program..

Examinations

This course will prepare you for the following exams and certification tracks shown. Please note that the exam may not be included in the price shown: please contact us to check.

Adobe® Certification Tracks  »
    ACE - Adobe® Certifed Expert  »
       ACE - Specialist Certification  »
          ACE- Technical Communication Specialist  »
             One elective exam (ACE- Technical Communications Specialist)  »
                Exam 9A0-084: Adobe® Acrobat 9 Professional
    Adobe® Exams  »
       Exam 9A0-084: Adobe® Acrobat 9 Professional
       One elective exam (ACE: Technical Communications Specialist)
       One elective exam (ACE: Technical Communications Specialist)
       One elective exam (ACE- Technical Communications Specialist)  »
          Exam 9A0-084: Adobe® Acrobat 9 Professional

Course Outline

Basics

• The potential of Acrobat forms
• Benefits of using Acrobat forms
• Benefits offered by Javascript
• Designing forms
• Adding form controls
• Using calculated fields
• Using hidden fields
• Form validation
• Form submission
• FDF data

Acrobat JavaScript essentials

• Uses of Javascript
• Acrobat's implementation of Javascript
• Acrobat objects
• Using the script editor
• Using a separate editor

JavaScript language syntax

• Using comments
• Using variables
• Using code blocks
• Defining functions
• Calling functions
• Passing parameters
• Looping structures
• Conditional statements

Writing scripts

• Using Javascript for navigation
• Obtaining field values
• Setting field values
• Showing and hiding fields
• Calculating field values
• Making field values conditional

Making fields dynamic

• Providing help via scripts
• Changing field in response to user actions
• Creating form fields via scripts
• Creating text fields
• Creating check boxes
• Creating combo boxes
• Setting field attributes

Windows and dialogues

• Display alert boxes
• Requesting information
• Server interaction
• Submitting a form to a cgi script
• using the ubiquitous formmail script
• using an ASP script

Database interaction

• The ADBC object
• The connection object
• The statement object
• writing to a database
• reading from a dataabase
• Using Dreamweaver with Acrobat
• merging a form with a data source