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LIVECYCLE ES4 OVERVIEW
Forms Standard ES4 and Forms Pro ES4
Last updated 1/15/2015
The following illustration and the list below provide an example of how Forms processes a request from an end user.
1 The end user accesses a web page and requests a form.
2 The web application invokes Forms and requests the form.
3 Forms retrieves the form design from a repository and data, and then merges the form design with the data to
prepopulate parts of the form. The data can come from a variety of sources, such as an enterprise database, another
form, or another application.
4 Forms determines the format to render the prepopulated form as based on the browser information that is passed
with the call. The format of a form can also be set programmatically by using the Forms Service API.
5 Forms transforms the form design into PDF or HTML and then returns the prepopulated form to the end user.
6 The end user completes the form and then submits the form data back to Forms. Before form data is submitted back
to Forms, applicable client-side scripts are run. For example, a user may be prompted to provide a value for a
mandatory form field.
7 Forms extracts the submitted data, runs server-side scripts associated with the button that was clicked, and then
executes the calculations and validations on the form.
8 Forms returns the results. If validations fail, the result may be a form that is returned to the end user. However, if
validations are successful, the result may be XML data.
Features around Data Capture workflows
Assembling PDF documents and forms Forms can combine content from multiple PDF documents to create
consistently formatted and seamless PDF documents.
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