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When working with fragments, keep in mind the following
points:
Because fragments are used for content reuse, keep them
generic enough so that they do not quickly become unusable in some
forms when changes are made to it.
When changing a fragment, verify whether you must also change
the following items:
Digital signatures that sign
a collection that includes the fragment file.
Update the schema for the fragment or host form to accommodate
the changes.
The form design layout of the host form to ensure that the
changes did not cause errors. More work may be required to complete
the change to the host forms. If you are not using the LiveCycle
server to generate the PDF files on demand, manually open each form
design and resave it as a PDF file in order for the fragment changes
to appear. If the PDF files are generated by using the LiveCycle
server, the fragment references in the host form design are resolved
before the form is rendered so that no additional effort is required.
When placing fragments on a master page, leave consistent
space between the page border and the fragments to maintain consistent
margins.
When creating the fragments, such as the body of a letter,
consider the spacing you want between each paragraph. Then make
the spacing part of the static text object that contains the paragraph
or part of the fragment subform itself (where the fragment subform
has a greater height than the static object it contains). When the
paragraph fragments are flowed into the body pages, they are consistently
spaced. The easiest way to add spacing is to use the Paragraph palette
and define the spacing on the static text object.
When creating paragraph fragments that contain floating fields,
always ensure that they are wide enough to allow for arbitrary data
width. For example, make the salutation of a letter as wide as the
page so that it can accommodate long names.
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