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Navigate Here: Utilities > Custom Field Management > Browse Entities, click the Browse Forms link of an entity > Browse Forms, click the Edit Form link of a form

 

You can edit a dynamic form of a entity through the form editor.

 

FormEditor

 

A form is composed of titles, sections and fields.

 

Title

 

Click the Change Form Titles icon formtitles to pop up Form Titles screen.

 

FormEditor_FormTitles

 

You can input new titles in the textboxes for both add and edit pages to replace those pre-defined titles and click the OK button to return to the form editor.

 

Section

 

To add a section, click the Add a Section icon AddSectionIcon_Form  in the tool bar.  The system will pop up the Section Property window for your section creation.

 

FormEditor_AddSection

 

Fill in the following fields or options:

 

Section Name: The name of the section.

 

Display section name on the form: This option controls if the section name will be displayed on the form.  It is checked by default.

 

Default to Collapse when adding/editing any entity: These two options control if this section will be expanded or collapsed on the add and edit forms.

 

Parent Section: To select the an existing section as its parent section.  Parent-sub sections will be displayed by hierarchy on the form.

 

Note:

Only consecutive sections can be set as parent-sub section relationship.

Only non sub section can be set as the parent section.

 

Once finished, clicks the OK button and the new section will be shown on the bottom of the form.

 

To edit a section's properties, select a section by clicking on the section area, then click the Change Property icon ChangeProperties.  The system will pop up the Section Property window for your modification

 

Field

 

To add fields into a section, select a section by clicking on the section area, then click the Add Fields icon AddFieldIcon_Form .  The system will pop up the Add Fields window.  Select the available fields and click the OK button, and they will be add to the bottom of the selected section. Note, the display name of the field will be shown as field label, and its database name will be shown in the textbox for your reference.

 

FormEditor_AddFields

 

To edit field property, select a field and click the Change Property icon ChangeProperties.  The system will pop up the Field Property window.

 

FormEditor_FieldProperty

 

Fill in the following fields or options:

 

Display Label: By default, it is the display name of the field.  You can change its field label for this form only.

 

Display label on the form: If it is checked, the label will be shown on the form, or it will be hidden.  It is checked by default.

 

Field is read-only: If it is checked, the field is read-only on the form, or it is editable.

 

Lock the field on the form: If it is checked, the field cannot be deleted from the form editor.

 

Is Required: If it is checked, the field will be required on the form with a "*" in front of its label. Note, if a field is required in the Attribute setting, this option will be bypassed.

 

Location: You can set which section the field will be located on the form. Select an existing section from the Section list and the field will be repositioned under the bottom of the section.

 

Layout: You can set the layout of the field on the form. There are two options: 1 Column or 2 Column.

 

Once finished, click the OK button to return to the form editor with changes applied.

 

To set the default value for a field, select a field and click the Set Default Value icon SetDefaultValue.  Fill in the default value in the pop up window and then click the OK button. Note, some field types do not support default value settings, like Boolean.

 

Metadata_FormLayout_SetDefaultValue

 

To remove a field or a section, select the field or the section by first clicking it and then click the Remove icon Delete.

To reorder a field or a section, select the field or the section by first clicking it and then click the Move Left icon MoveLeftIcon_Form, the Move Right icon MoveRightIcon_Form, the Move Up icon up, or the Move Down icon down.

To remove the empty rows in a section, select the section and click the Remove Empty Row(s) icon RemoveEmptyRowIcon_Form.

All changes above must be saved by clicking the Save icon SaveFormIcon_Form finally.

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