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SVF Cloud Designer

Common to SVF Cloud Designer (Flash version) and SVF Cloud Designer Client (AIR version)

Classification

Restrictions

Error due to operation by another account

When you are editing a form layout with SVF Cloud Designer, an error may occur if another account:

  • Edits the same form layout with SVF Cloud Designer

  • Imports a form layout on the Resource screen in SVF Cloud Manager

If an error occurs, do the following operations.

  • Wait for a while and access again

  • Exit SVF Cloud Designer on other devices

  • Log out of SVF Cloud Manager on other devices

Test print

If you specify Set file name during printing for Image type in properties of an image, the image cannot be output by test print from SVF Cloud Designer.

To output images by test print, select Set file name during design and, in Filename, select one of the image files uploaded to SVF Cloud Designer.

For test-printing, "Test data import mode" supports up to 100 rows in a CSV file.

CSV files that specify functions enclosed in the control command "<start><end>" cannot be used as test data.

Link field

To separate the data to be output to a field with any character (delimiter) and output the rest of the data to a linked field, it is necessary to configure the link field settings in SVF Cloud Manager.

For details, see "SVF Cloud Administration Guide".

Graphic mode

If you use a form definition that contains items in Graphic mode, forms cannot be output to an Excel file or to a printer with a PDL that does not support Graphic mode.

The following PDLs support graphic mode.

  • PDF

  • EMF

  • EMFPLUS

  • POSTSCRIPT

  • Canon LIPS4

  • Fuji Xerox ART4

  • FUJI Xerox DP300

  • Hewlett-Packard PCL5

  • Ricoh RPCS

  • Unisys JPP

Proportional fonts

The following are proportional fonts, so you need to design items in the graphic mode. Also, they cannot be output on models that do not support the graphic mode.

  • MSP Mincho

  • MSP Gothic

  • IPAmj Mincho

  • Arial

  • Times New Roman

  • Arial Unicode MS

EUDC

To output EUDC fonts, contact our support team. This must be set up by us.

Note that EUDC cannot be output by test printing.

Report-writer mode

Report-writer mode is used to output.

Numeric-type fields cannot display text.

History of form definition

In SVF Cloud Designer, the history of the form definition to be saved is ten generations.

Extended auto link mode

The extended auto link mode is set to "3" and it cannot be changed.

For details of Extended Auto Link mode, see "SVF Cloud Designer Form Creation Guide".

Barcodes

Output barcodes may not be read because fine-tuning, such as width adjustment, cannot be done for outputting barcodes.

Display resolution

If the resolution of the display is less than 1,024×768, the Logout button at the top right will not be displayed

Print engine settings

To configure the print engine settings for the on-premise edition of SVF output engine, you can configure on Print Settings in SVF Cloud Manager.

API function when outputting a form

You cannot specify API functions when outputting forms.

The VrSetForm function operates in mode 4 or 5 (depending on the service used for outputting forms).

Group role

Only the features for the "Standard User" role are available.

The settings for the server and the operation buttons for the "Standard User" role will not be displayed.

Login account

You cannot specify a login account.

You are automatically logged in with the login account of the application such as SVF Cloud for Salesforce and SVF Cloud Manager that you started.

Password

The user password cannot be changed.

Display language

You cannot change the display language of SVF Cloud Designer.

It depends on the language setting of the application such as SVF Cloud for Salesforce and SVF Cloud Manager that you started.

Bulk upload/download

You cannot upload forms and download form definitions in bulk.

Import or export them on the Resource screen in SVF Cloud Manager.

Paper size

When outputting a form as PDF, the user-defined paper size must be in the range of 10 to 2540 mm.

Text frame

If you use the following symbols in text strings output by the text frame, the form is output without the text strings in the text frame.

To output the following symbols, use entity references (strings in parentheses in the following) instead of symbols themselves.

  • <(&lt;)

  • >(&gt;)

  • "(&quot;)

  • '(&apos;)

  • &(&amp;)

  • Half-width space (&nbsp;)

If it is difficult to use entity references, you can use the REPLACE function to convert symbols in text strings into entity references.

Example 1. Example of converting symbol "&" to entity reference "&"

REPLACE(testField, "&", "&amp;")



To convert a symbol, double quotation ("), specify it as follows (double quotation cannot be specified in search strings).

Example 2. Example of converting double quotation (") from symbol to entity reference

REPLACE(testField, CHR(34), "&quot;")



If you copy and paste a string that meets the following conditions into a text frame, the second and subsequent paragraphs may be garbled.

  • The line feed code is not LF.

  • A string contains full/half-width spaces or half-width alphanumeric characters.

Output to Excel file

Additional restrictions apply when outputting forms to an Excel file. For details, see "For outputting to Excel file".

SVF Cloud Designer Client (AIR version)

Classification

Restrictions

Function description

The function description is not displayed in the Calculation formula, Edit formula, and Add attribute expression dialogs.

For function description, see "5-4 Design functions" and "6-4 Attribute functions" in "SVF Cloud Designer Creating Forms".

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