Maintaining Forms With the Form Builder 

Use

You use the graphical user interface in the Form Builder to define your Smart Form.

• Navigation tree (left); clearly displays general attributes and all other output elements of the form
• Maintenance screen (middle); allows you to maintain the attributes of the navigation tree nodes
• Form Painter (right); allows you to maintain the layout of your form. If you do not need the Form Painter, you can suppress it by choosing Form Painter on / off.

On the maintenance screen additional graphical tools are integrated, depending on the individual node type:

• The PC Editor for text nodes
• The Table Painter for table and template nodes (see screen capture)

Some settings you make graphically in the Form Painter are copied directly to the maintenance screen. For example, if you use the mouse to change the size of an output area, the system immediately copies these new values into the fields Width and Height on the Output Options tab. However, if you change attributes in the maintenance screen, they take effect in the Form Painter or navigation tree only after you press RETURN .

• A field list that contains all fields of the Smart Form
• An error list that helps you localize errors in the definition of the Smart Form

• You can undo changes to the form description step by step (see: Undo/Redo)
• You can store a form or a subtree locally and reload it (see: Downloading and Uploading Forms)
• You can choose Utilities ® Back to Active Version to return to the last active version of your form. However, any changes you made since then are lost.