Form Builder

The Form Builder will create a Fast Form.

A Fast Form is just a term that refers to a Form built with the Form Builder.

The Form Builder does 3 or 4 things.

1. Creates a Form and it's Objects.

2. Creates any columns needed for Browse or Browse Edit type Forms.

3. Adds a Button Object on the Fast Forms of the Developer's Home Page.

OR, if it was a Subform

Displays the Code of the Form that was created.

Table Name

This is a nuScroll Object that will allow you to do 1 of 2 things.

1. Create a new table name and its field names.
2. Choose an existing table and then be able to scroll through its field names in all of the Field Name Objects.

• Launch Forms do not require a Table Name.

Table Type

• Browse and Browse and Edit Forms require at least 1 Browse Column checkbox must be ticked.

Objects

To create a Fast Form the Form Builder has the following predefined Objects...

Clicking one of these Object will add a record to the subform list of Objects to be created, and allow you to do 2 things.

1. Allow you to change its Label
2. Allow you to change its Field Name

The possible choice of Objects is...

(Clicking on ? will show what each Object does and looks like.)

• Input:text
• Input:button
• Input:checkbox
• Input:nuAutoNumber
• Input:nuScroll
• Input:nuDate
• Input:nuNumber
• Input:number
• Input:file
• Word
• Calc
• Display
• Lookup
• HTML
• Select
• Select:multiselect
• Textarea
• Image
• Subform

Create Fast Form

Click the Action Button named Build Fast Form.

This will create all that is needed by the new Form and display a message to take you to its newly created Button on the Testing Tab.