• Various Form Types
• Designer Workspace and layouts
• Various Palettes and Tabs
• Adobe Acrobat vs. Adobe Reader
• XML Forms Architecture

• Radio Button vs. Check Box
• Drop-down List vs. List Box
• Image vs. Image Fields
• Tables and Sub Forms
• Text Field vs. Static Text vs. Floating Field

• Generating preview data
• Preview as PDF vs HTML5
• Static vs Dynamic Form Save

• Template Manager
• Creating custom templates
• Creating custom categories
• Using custom templates
• Create using existing PDF or MS Word documents

• Adding multiple master pages
• Page occurrences
• Adding multiple content areas
• Paginations

• Overview of XML Schema
• Connecting a form design with an XML Schema
• Connecting a form design with XML data
• Connecting a form design with SOAP/Web Service

• Implicit Binding
• Explicit Binding
• Global Binding
• Different ways to add the bindings

• Using Custom Objects (simple vs composite)
• Various Patterns (Display, Edit, Validate and Data)
• Layout and Border Palette
• Font Palette

• Benefits of Fragments
• Fragments at design time
• Considerations when designing with Fragments

Hands-on exercises

• Introduction to Events
• Various Event Types
• Using the Script Editor
• Adding simple scripting (JavaScript and FormCalc)
• Troubleshooting and debugging code

• Building dynamic features into the form without any coding knowledge
• Understanding Resolve Node

• Using a Script Object
• Introduction to the Document Object Model (DOM)
• Various XFA Objects
• Using XML Source for scripting
• Form render process
• Using the Acrobat Object Model

• Understanding content type (Positioned vs Flowed)
• Using an object’s presence property to create a dynamic form
• Using Designer’s Instance manager to add and remove sub forms
• Understanding when to use a Static or Dynamic PDF form

• Using Subform Set object
• Handling Overflow Data Groups
• Setting Pagination Options
• Using a Table Object to Display Dynamic Data

• Adding and configuring a submit button
• Understanding the format options available for submission

• Adding a barcode
• Adding digital signatures
• Field collections
• Accessibility and Tab Ordering

Hands-on exercises