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    <p>I need to pre-fill a dynamic PDF's fields so my users can edit it and submit back. </p> <p>I am using Adobe ColdFusion CFPDFFORM tag that can load XML data into a PDF and make a new populated PDF. Unfortunately it also clears <strong>&lt;xfa:datasets&gt;</strong> tag, it completely empties it out! So all dropdownlists binded to datasets do not work. This is the code for binding one of them:</p> <pre><code>&lt;bindItems ref="xfa.datasets.LOVFile.LOV.PreferenceLanguageList.PreferenceLanguage[*]" labelRef="$" valueRef="lic"/&gt; </code></pre> <p>Since I have no control on how CFPDFFORM tag works, I came up with a workaround. Using LiveCycle Designer for codding, I store whatever data there is in <strong>&lt;xfa:datasets&gt;</strong> into a variable and load it to datasets at form::initialize.</p> <p>This seems to load datasets fine, just like how they were before cfpdform messed them up. After loadXML() call , I can read the datasets and get identical results as in the original PDF with its datasets tag full of XML data.</p> <pre><code>form1::initialize - (JavaScript, client) //xfa.host.messageBox("loading xml to datasets"); xfa.datasets.nodes.namedItem("LOVFile").loadXML(LOVFile_var.value,0,1); Page1.Header.debug.rawValue = xfa.datasets.LOVFile.LOV.PreferenceLanguageList.resolveNode("PreferenceLanguage[2]").value; </code></pre> <p>The problem is down down lists still don't work, they have no item to show. Somehow their binding call to datasets does not refresh?</p> <p>Is there anything else I should do after loadXML() ? LiveCycle reference for <em>bindItems</em> says "<em>The links between the list items and the referenced data are active. Any change to the data causes an immediate update to the list items.</em>"</p> <p>Any help or point to the right direction is greatly appreciated.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p> <p>using azathoth's answer I can add item to a dropdownlist using data from the newly loaded datasets (after loadXml() call). </p> <pre><code>var oEyeColors = xfa.datasets.LOVFile.LOV.resolveNode("EyeColorList"); var numberOfNodes = oEyeColors.nodes.length; var thisValue = ""; for (var i=0; i &lt; numberOfNodes ; i++){ thisValue = oEyeColors.nodes.item(i).value; if(thisValue == null){ thisValue = ""; } xfa.resolveNode("Page1.eyeColorDropDownList").addItem(thisValue.toString()); } </code></pre> <p>This works but is not the solution I am looking for. There must be a JavaScript way to set bindItems of a dropdown.</p>
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