Re: Sample Adobe Form available Charlie Hathaway 19 Jul 2007 11:26 EST
Thanks Bob. I just went through the July 19 "presentation" slides on that site...I presume these will be used for the web cast. Granted, I looked at the whole thing in 2 min but saw only a few slides about Adobe application forms per se... and a lot of technical stuff about Adobe "LiveCycle Forms (TM) " not sure this will be worth 2 hours Charlie At 11:57 AM 7/19/2007, you wrote: >As part of the materials for the Grants.gov webcast today, there is a >sample 424R&R face page available for download >http://www.grants.gov/resources/stakeholder_communications.jsp > >Now there is a chance to review this. Open with various versions of >Adobe. Fill it out. Note various aspects of it. > >1. Put your cursor into a yellow field and then tab or otherwise >move it out. You get a big pop up box telling you its a required >field. I find this very very annoying. Anyone else think this is a >feature we can do without? > >2. How to open a form. No double click like other 21st century >programs, not even highlight and click open form on left. First you >must move it to the right, and then highlight and click open form? >Why move to open. By the way, when there are a number of forms on >the left, you can move them in any order unlike the PureEdge where >they stayed in the original order when moved. I wonder if NIH will >have a problem putting forms back into order. > >3. Print? Add an attachment, then try to print, do you get the >attachment printed? If not (I do not get it), then I hope everyone >will write a message in to the webcast asking for a full print >option. If the system is to meet our expectations, then it must do >this. > >4. One good thing, is it just on Macs? Once I fill in a field, the >next time I enter that field, with a new application, the previous >entry shows in a pull down list. So once I enter the Organization >name on one application, it is just a matter of clicking in the field >to get it next time. Try this. Save a blank form, enter something >in a required field, save. Then open up a new from and see if that >info is available in that field. > >5. Second good thing. Once you move all the forms to the right >box, you can use the page slider on the right to move up and down >through all the pages of all forms. Almost as good as double clicking. > > >Just a few things to get you started looking at a form. > >Bob >xxxxxx@umich.edu > > >====================================================================== >Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================