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To add guides, sections, and panels

You can create one or more form guides for each form design, and each form guide can contain one or more sections and panels.

When you add a guide, it has one section and one panel by default. The guide uses the default Cobalt Standard form guide layout and the panel uses the default One Column panel layout.

You can also create nested sections. To view nested sections in a form guide, you must use the Cobalt Tree guide layout. A section can contain either nested sections or panels, but not both. When you nest a section under a section that already has panels, Guide Builder adds a new nested section and moves those panels into it.

You cannot add panels to sections that contain nested sections.

Note:

In a form design that contains multiple form guides, each form guide is a view of the fields and data on the original form design, and only one form guide can be rendered at a time. Therefore, if a form guide that is not rendered contains mandatory fields, the form guide filler finds that the form guide data does not submit properly and the form guide is re-rendered. To work around this issue, one strategy is to set the mandatory property for the field to disabled, which prevents the error from occurring. For example, the following script sets the mandatory property for a text field to disabled.

if (TextField1.mandatory == “error”) {

TextField1.mandatory =”disabled”;

} else {

TextField1.mandatory =”error”;

}

For more information about the mandatory property, see LiveCycle Designer ES Scripting Reference .

To add a form guide

Click Add Guide.

To add a guide, section, or panel to the form guide hierarchy

Click one of the Add Guide, Add Section, or Add Panel buttons to add the corresponding item to the form guide hierarchy.

To create a nested sections

1.	Add a section.

2.	Drag the new section under an existing section.

To add a panel

1.	Select a section or a panel:

•	To have the new panel appear below the last panel in a section, select the section.

•	To have the new panel appear below a particular panel, select the panel.

2.	Click Add Panel.

See also 

To select a form guide layout

To select a panel layout

To add guides, sections, and panels