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. Change its Label
2. Change its Field Name

The possible choice of Objects is...

• 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

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

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.