Chapter 35. Getting More Help with LiveCycle Designer

Let's face it. LiveCycle Designer is not a very intuitive program, and it's quite complicated. Anyone telling you differently thinks in code and complex tasks. For the rest of us, the learning curve is steep, and becoming proficient requires much patience and dedicated study.

With this book, we've tried to expose you to many of Designer's methods and how to use the program from the ground up. However, we cannot hope to satisfy everyone's needs and special circumstances. To become a LiveCycle Designer advanced user, you need to go beyond this book and research other sources to help you learn more about the program and more easily create forms in Designer.

In this chapter, we point you to some places to start your research and advanced learning for more knowledge as it relates to LiveCycle Designer.

Using Some Help Guidelines

If you have a background in programming and database logic, you may find much of working with LiveCycle Designer to be intuitive and easy to learn. If you don't have skills in programming and understanding database management, you are likely to have much difficulty getting up to speed in the program. Some people say that Designer is easy and intuitive. We define easy as something a child or an elderly grandparent can learn in 30 minutes. This program doesn't fall into that category. If someone ...

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