[libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document
Anyone ever encountered this? I finally decided to convert a few of our PDF forms into PDF fillable forms, and thought this was going to be easy. No luck with the existing documents, so I tried with a brand new blank writer document... I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag one of the fields, it just doesn't work. Yes, Design Mode is enabled, and the fields are not greyed out like they are when Design Mode is disabled - they look 'active, and if I mouse over them the tooltip appears, and if I click on them they react - but dragging them off of the toolbar to the document does nothing... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document
Hi Charles, Le 16/10/2014 13:28, Tanstaafl a écrit : Anyone ever encountered this? I finally decided to convert a few of our PDF forms into PDF fillable forms, and thought this was going to be easy. No luck with the existing documents, so I tried with a brand new blank writer document... I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag one of the fields, it just doesn't work. Once selected, draw the control in the document, it will appear then. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document
On 10/16/2014 7:32 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Charles, Le 16/10/2014 13:28, Tanstaafl a écrit : I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag one of the fields, it just doesn't work. Once selected, draw the control in the document, it will appear then. Hah! Thanks Sophie! I had googled on how to do this, and the page I found said to drag it. I guess drawing makes sense in that it gives you more control initially, but dragging should, in my opinion, at least still work and result in some kind of default sized field being dropped into the document, that you can then resize and/or manipulate. But, no worries, I'm off to finish my forms. Thanks again Sophie! -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document
Le 16/10/2014 13:35, Tanstaafl a écrit : On 10/16/2014 7:32 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Charles, Le 16/10/2014 13:28, Tanstaafl a écrit : I open the Form Controls Toolbar, but when I try to drag one of the fields, it just doesn't work. Once selected, draw the control in the document, it will appear then. Hah! Thanks Sophie! I had googled on how to do this, and the page I found said to drag it. I guess drawing makes sense in that it gives you more control initially, but dragging should, in my opinion, at least still work and result in some kind of default sized field being dropped into the document, that you can then resize and/or manipulate. But, no worries, I'm off to finish my forms. Thanks again Sophie! You're welcome :) to access the properties of the control, right click on it and choose Control. In the dialog you have a lot of things you can set. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document
On 10/16/2014 7:39 AM, Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: You're welcome :) to access the properties of the control, right click on it and choose Control. In the dialog you have a lot of things you can set. Awesome... One question though. In my first test, when a user dbl-clicks the form, it just opens the form. Is there a way to force it to act like a template, and open a new/unsaved copy in fillable mode? I will be putting these on a shared drive that users have read-only access to. Thanks again! -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document
On 10/16/2014 8:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Is there a way to force it to act like a template, and open a new/unsaved copy in fillable mode? Hmmm... but I would also like the newly created/saved copy to *not* act like a template any longer (s0, basically the same way that Libreoffice Writer templates work). This may not be possible, so if not, it will be acceptable the way it is. Since the user don't have write access to the form itself, they would get an error if they tried to save/overwrite it, so I'll just instruct them that they have to 'File Save As' to save theirs. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Form controls - unable to drag a form field to a brand new blank document
Le 16/10/2014 14:25, Tanstaafl a écrit : On 10/16/2014 8:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Is there a way to force it to act like a template, and open a new/unsaved copy in fillable mode? Hmmm... but I would also like the newly created/saved copy to *not* act like a template any longer (s0, basically the same way that Libreoffice Writer templates work). This may not be possible, so if not, it will be acceptable the way it is. Since the user don't have write access to the form itself, they would get an error if they tried to save/overwrite it, so I'll just instruct them that they have to 'File Save As' to save theirs. The form has two states: design mode on or off. In the Control toolbar, you have an icon (last on the bottom right) named Form design. Clicking on it will activate another toolbar that will allow you to switch between the mode on/off. This toolbar has also a button to allow you to open the form in design mode or in fill mode. The other icons of this toolbar will help you for the design of the form. You can activate this toolbar via View Toolbar Form design too. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
