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Softech provided the migration service for a large manufacturing company to export IBM FileNet eForms (version 5.01) and their metadata from FileNet Content Services server 5.4.x, convert them to PDF, and then import PDF forms along with metadata to FileNet P8 Content Manager 4.5. The challenge for this project is the FileNet eForms PDF publishing API can only convert an eForms document into a static PDF document, but not a PDF form. What it means is if the eForms has a drop box/combo box, the converted PDF doc will show a text field. If there is a scrollable field with value longer than the visible field length, the converted PDF document would only display the visible part of the text without the ability to scroll or click the mouse over to see the remaining of the text.
Softech developed a tool to convert FileNet eForms documents to a PDF form which would carry over all of the scrollable fields, drop-box, etc. Basically, it simulates most of the look-and-feel of the eForms. No built-in eForms scripts supported.
11/15/2011