Form Builder

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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. It creates a Form and it's Objects.
  2. It creates the columns needed for Browse of Browse Edit type Forms.
  3. Adds a Button Object on the Testing Tab of the Developer's Home Page OR if it was a Subform, let's you know the Code of the Form created.


Create Fast Form

To create a Fast Form you will need to do 3 things..


Table Name

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

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

Table Type

At least 1 Browse Column checkbox must be ticked if Form Type is either..

  • Browse
  • Edit Browse

Subform Forms do not require a Button created on the Test Tab.

Add 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 it's Label
  2. Allow you to change it's 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

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 that will take you to it's newly created Button on the Testing Tab.