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Developing Forms for LiveCycle
This appendix provides information that is useful for form developers, including how to use WebDAV with
LiveCycle Form Manager and which items LiveCycle products require for different types of forms.

Publishing files from client software

Form developers and form owners can use WebDAV-enabled client software to publish and access their
files in the LiveCycle products repository used by LiveCycle Form Manager.
To use WebDAV, your computer must be running file management software (such as Microsoft Windows
Explorer) that can connect to WebDAV servers.
To create a connection to a WebDAV directory, you must specify the URL of the directory. The following
URL is the default URL of the LiveCycle Form Manager repository:
http://[host name]:[port]/appstore/Forms
where
[host name]
being used for LiveCycle products.
For example, the form developers in your company use LiveCycle Designer to create forms. The form
developers want to use the Publish menu command in LiveCycle Designer to copy forms and their
supporting files to the LiveCycle products repository. However, they first use Windows Explorer to add a
network place, which creates a connection to the URL of the LiveCycle products repository. The
connection appears as a folder in My Network Places. After adding the network place, the form developers
can use the folder to publish files to the repository.

Designing forms for LiveCycle products

To use forms with LiveCycle products, there may be requirements for the design of the form, the
configuration of LiveCycle products, or both. The following types of forms have special requirements for
use with LiveCycle products:
Dynamic forms
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PDF/A-compliant forms
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Forms that include subform objects
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PDF forms created with Acrobat
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For information on designing forms for use with LiveCycle Workflow, see the Creating Workflows guide,
which is installed with LiveCycle Workflow.
is the name of the computer that is running LiveCycle products and [port] is the port
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