 Avoka Training
Avoka provides training and mentoring services to clients to provide a level of self-sufficiency with Adobe LiveCycle and Flex technologies. Avoka has a number of trainers certified to provide Adobe LiveCycle training.
Avoka typically provides skills transfer in several ways:
- Formal training: Avoka provides accredited trainers to provide official Adobe LiveCycle training courses to your staff.
- Mentoring: Avoka provides mentoring by building parts of the overall system alongside your staff. As your staff become more proficient, Avoka will take more of a back-seat role, providing assistance, guidance, architectural oversight, and issue resolution services.
- Custom training: Avoka can provide customized training to your requirements. We are happy to develop and/or provide training to developers, end-users, and administrators.
Available Courses
On top of the training dates on the right, Avoka conducts training courses based on customer demands and typically can accommodate a training course requirement with 2 – 4 weeks advance notice.
Below is an overview of our standard courses.
Course Information
Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2: Developing Forms (3 days)
This course introduces and teaches, in detail, techniques for developing
forms for data capture and data display using Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2.
Through in-depth hands-on practice, by the end of the course you will know how to
create static as well dynamic, interactive, data-bound forms including input validation,
localized fields, accessibility information, embedded barcodes, digital signatures, and
simple through advanced scripted interactions.
Audience
Interactive form developers.
Preferred Prerequisites
- Understanding of form-based business processes
- Basic familiarity with XML formatted data
- Interest in learning software scripting fundamentals
Course Outline
- Introducing the Course
- Understanding form development >>
- Understanding forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES
- Understanding Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader
- Adding and configuring interactive form objects
- Previewing interactive form objects
- Controlling tab order, presence, and accessibility
- Creating and using tables
- Organizing forms using subforms/naming
- Using master pages
- Submitting interactive data using email
- Controlling user input and data display >>
- Formatting and validating user input
- Setting and using locale information
- Applying display and edit patterns
- Applying validation patterns
- Scripting Form Interactions >>
- Adding business logic with scripts
- Creating conditional form interactions
- Validating user input using scripts
- Sharing data and controlling focus
- Creating scripts using calculations
- Working with Flowed Layout >>
- Understanding subforms in dynamic forms
- Using expanding tables in dynamic forms
- Flowing tables over multiple pages
- Creating Shared and Reusable Form Content >>
- Creating and using custom objects
- Creating and using form fragments
- Creating and using script fragments
- Creating and using conditional fragments
- Creating and organizing form templates
- Importing Existing Forms >>
- Re-using PDF forms in Designer
- Re-using Microsoft Word™ forms in Designer
- Defining XML Relationships within a Form >>
- Designing forms using data connections
- Using XML schema to create a form
- Working with data bindings in a form
- Binding tables to repeating data
- Binding subforms to repeating data
- Using web services within a form
- Working with Barcode Data >>
- Using paper forms barcode objects
- Managing barcode data capacity
- Using digital signatures >>
- Understanding digital signatures in forms
- Verifying forms using digital signatures
- Verifying field collections using digital signatures
- Advanced scripting in PDF forms >>
- Introducing the document object models and API
- Working with script objects
- Implementing custom, multi-field validation
- Create data drill-down behaviors
- Introspecting forms to implement type specific behaviors
Adobe LiveCycle ES: Building Applications version 201 (3 days)
Adobe LiveCycle ES: Building Applications provides developers the skills needed to
utilize solution components in building LiveCycle ES applications. The course gives
developers hands on experience in creating, deploying, testing and administering
processes.
Audience
This course is for anyone with a programming background.
Preferred Prerequisites
To gain the most from this course, you should:
- Be familiar with basic programming concepts, processes and constructs
- Have a basic understanding of XML terminology and structure
- Be familiar with building forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer or the Workbench
Course Outline
- Introducing the Course >>
- Introducing Mastery Learning
- Understanding the course format
- Reviewing the course prerequisites
- Reviewing the course outline
- Introducing Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) >>
- Understanding LiveCycle ES
- LiveCycle ES architecture
- Getting help and other resources
- Getting Started with Adobe LiveCycle Workbench ES >>
- Understanding the relationship between Eclipse and Workbench ES
- Exploring the Workbench ES interface
- Process Concepts
- Creating processes in Workbench ES
- Creating process diagrams
- Using Data in a Process >>
- Adding Resources to the LiveCycle Repository
- Preparing forms for use in LiveCycle applications
- Defining variables for a process version
- Assigning Tasks to Users in a Process >>
- Defining operations in a process diagram
- Using process data on different forms
- Interacting with a Process via the Workspace >>
- Managing processes
- Using the LiveCycle ES Workspace
- Implementing Business Rules to Control Process Flow >>
- Selecting routes based on business rules
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting Process Versions >>
- Monitoring applications
- Troubleshooting an application
- Interacting with Databases >>
- Interacting with databases using the JDBC service
- Using the Execute SQL Statement operation
- Selecting database data
- Selecting multiple rows of database data
- Using email in a Process >>
- Configuring Email Notifications
- Using the Email service in a process
- Initiating processes via email
- Optional: Using the Forms Service within a Process >>
- The Forms service
- Rendering forms as part of a process
- Using custom render and submit services
- The Form Augmenter service
- Optional: Creating and Rendering Form Guides Within a Process >>
- Form Guides
- Using a form guide in Workspace ES
- Customizing Form Guides
- Optional: Generating PDFs from Other Document Types >>
- Understanding the PDF Generator service
- Reading and writing files using the File Utilities service
- Creating a short lived process using the PDF Generator service
- Optional: Using the Rights Management Service to Secure Documents >>
- Examining Document Protection
- The Rights Management service
- Applying Rights Management to a PDF in Acrobat
- Securing Microsoft Office documents with policies
- Protecting a document as part of a process
- Optional: Using the Reader Extensions Service >>
- Understanding the Reader Extensions service
- Using a Reader Extensions ES digital certificate
- Using the Reader Extensions Service from the web interf
- Reader Extending a document as part of a process
- Using a watched folder endpoint
- Branching in a Process >>Adobe Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications (3 days)
This course provides experienced application developers with hands-on, practical experience using Flex. The three day training introduces developers to all the primary features of Flex they'll need to know in order to build a fully functional, well architected front end for a Rich Internet Application (RIA).
Audience
This course is designed for application developers who want to bring the power of Rich Internet Applications to their web applications.
Preferred Prerequisites
To gain the most from this course, you should:
- Be familiar with an object oriented programming language such as Java or C++
- Be familiar with XML terminology.
Course Outline
- Introducing Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications >>
- Introducing Mastery Learning
- Understanding the Course Format
- Reviewing the course prerequisites
- Reviewing the course outline
- Setting up the application files
- Introducing Adobe Flex 3 >>
- Understanding rich Internet applications
- Understanding Adobe Flex
- Understanding Adobe Flex Builder
- Understanding the foundation of the RIA: Flash Player/Flash Virtual Machine
- Understanding the Flex application process flow
- Accessing remote data resources from a Flex application
- Getting help and other resources
- Getting Started with Flex >>
- Understanding the relationship between Eclipse and Flex Builder
- Exploring the Flex Builder interface
- Creating a project and your first application
- Debugging a Flex application
- Accessing help in Adobe Flex Builder
- Learning Flex Fundamentals >>
- Creating a simple Flex application
- Displaying images
- Laying out a Flex application with containers
- Using the Panel container
- Using the ControlBar container
- Adding user interface controls
- Creating data bindings between components
- Architecting an application with MXML components
- Creating properties and methods for MXML components
- Understanding events
- Creating event handlers using inline ActionScript
- Handling events within ActionScript functions
- Placing ActionScript functions in external files
- Understanding the Event object
- Using the addEventListener() method
- Laying out an Application Using Constraint-Based Layout >>
- Understanding absolute positioning
- Positioning components within a Canvas container
- Creating a constraint-based layout using Flex Builder
- Creating a constraint-based layout via MXML
- Using Enhanced Constraints
- Using constraint-based layouts within nested containers
- Using View States for Application Design >>
- Understanding view states
- Controlling view states
- Reviewing the generated MXML code
- Creating view states that include custom component states
- Creating Application Navigation >>
- Understanding navigator containers and controls
- Using the LinkBar control
- Using the TabBar control
- Using the ViewStack container
- Using the TabNavigator container
- Using the Accordion container
- Using ButtonBar & ToggleButtonBar
- Using the ApplicationControlBar container
- Customizing the Application >>
- Customizing Flex application look and feel
- Modifying Styles to change look-and-feel
- Using Themes
- Applying behaviors to components
- Applying transitions to view state changes
- Using ActionScript Data Models >>
- Using the MVC design pattern
- Creating an MXML data model
- Using ActionScript classes as a data model
- Creating an ActionScript constructor with parameters
- Defining class methods
- Exchanging Data Between Components Using Custom Events >>
- Understanding the problem with bindings
- Creating custom events
- Sending data with a custom event
- Creating Data Entry Forms >>
- Using the Form container
- Sharing Form Data
- Validating form data
- Triggering validation with events
- Triggering validation with ActionScript
- Retrieving XML Data with HTTPService >>
- Retrieving XML data at runtime
- Handling results
- Handling results using an event handler
- Handling faults
- Making HTTP requests to different domains
- Making HTTP requests with parameters
- Displaying Data Using the DataGrid >>
- Using the DataGrid control
- Specifying DataGrid columns
- Formatting DataGrid columns
- Using item renderers and item editors
- Inline item renderers and item editors
- Item renderer and item editor components
- Using the TileList and HorizontalList
- Using events and selected items with list-based components
Course Dates
Scheduled courses will be announced on the top right hand area of this page.
Please note that there is a minimum requirement of 6 participants for the course to go ahead.
Pricing (per 3 day course)
| At customer site | $1,795 per person (plus applicable taxes) |
| At our location | $2,695 per person (plus applicable taxes) |
Terms and Conditions
- Training rates valid until 30th September 2010
- Any training conducted may incur some additional cost, e.g. costs related to instructor travel and accommodation
- Course payment is required in full at least ten working days in advance of course date
- Minimum of six attendees per training course
- All cancellations must be submitted to Avoka Technologies in writing or by email
- Full payment required for cancellation received less that five working days prior to course commencement or for non-attendance
- Substitutions can be made at any time
- Avoka Technologies reserves the right to defer a training course where circumstances necessitate
- Attendees will be informed one week in advance of any schedule changes
More Information
If you would like to receive more information about our courses, please contact us.
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