Monday, June 4, 2007

PDF Forms Tags...

 
CF 8 has introduced several tags for manipulating PDF forms:

The following describes a few of the tasks you can perform with PDF forms:

cfpdfform - Reads data from a form and writes it to a file or populates a form with data from a data source.

cfpdfformparam  - A child tag of the cfpdfform tag or the cfpdfsubform tag; populates individual fields in PDF forms.

cfpdfsubform - A child tag of the cfpdfform tag; creates the hierarchy of the PDF form so that form fields are filled properly.

The cfpdfsubform tag contains one or more cfpdpformparam tags.

 

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you know of any way to get the type of field in a PDF form as opposed to just its value? What about getting the options from a drop down menu in select? Are these things possible with CF8?

Ahamad said...

You can extract data from a PDF form and write the output to an XML data file.

Ex: cfpdfform action="read" source="sourcefile1.pdf" XMLdata="datafile.xml"

Ahamad said...

More about xmldata here...

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=formsPDF_08.html

Unknown said...

hi
I have a dropwdown in my PDF form , i am able to fill the value for the text box in PDF from coldfusion , but i dont know how to populate the dropdown data in the PDF with values fetch from database using CF 8

Below the Sample Code
cfpdfform source= "#sourceform1#" action="populate" overwrite="true"
cfpdfsubform name="form1"
cfpdfsubform name="expense"
cfpdfformparam name="name" value="#myname1#"
cfpdfformparam name="empcode" value="#myempcode1#"
cfpdfformparam name="location" value="#mylocation1#"
cfpdfformparam name="mgrname" value="#mymgrname1#"
cfpdfformparam name="drpDivision" value="how to populate from DB?"
/cfpdfsubform
/cfpdfsubform
/cfpdfform

Anonymous said...

Hi chesponal,
You can write a query and get the value from the database in a variable and then you can use that variable in to populate the PDF Form.

Unknown said...

Thanks for the reply

As per ur reply i assume that i have use like below

cfquery name=test
select id,value from table name
cfquery

cfset variable.drpContent = test

cfpdfformparam name="drpDivision" value=#test#

I have a question here how to i set the value and display option for the dropdown ?

Anonymous said...

Hi chesponal,
Yes, this is the way I was talking about.

I am unable to understand your question... If you have any specific sample pdf form, please send it accross to me, I will give you the cfm code.

I can be reached at ahamadk1@gmail.com

Unknown said...

Hi
I sent u the email , i was talking about populatting the dropdown from a lookup table

Anonymous said...

Hi chesponal,
I am sorry to say that you cannot populate the drop-down using cfpdfform. This has to be done in the Acrobat Designer itself while designing the pdf form.

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