Working With General Form Designer

To work with the general form designer:

  • To edit a form:
    1. Open the form in the Web FormDesigner.
    2. elect the Usage tab and note which views contain this form. Changes to the form affect all the views. If you do not see a Usage tab, click the empty space in the upper left corner of the Web FormDesigner surface.
    3. To make changes to the form such as:
      • Change captions and other control properties
      • Move and hide controls
      • Add controls (Add data fields to a form)
      • Change form, row, and column properties
    4. Click save.png (Save).

      Changes take effect immediately.

  • To view the changes:
    1. Switch to the original browser tab and click F5. You can switch between these tabs to repeatedly make changes and view the results.
    2. Alternatively, browse to any view that contains the form you edited.
      Note: You can view changes to summary view quick forms after a build and deploy is done in Application Architect. Refer to 'Building the Web Platform' in the Application Architect help for more information.
  • To undo the last changes:

    On the browser tab for the Web Form Designer, click F5 to revert to the last saved version of the form.

  • To release the changes to other users:
    1. When you save changes, everyone on the system view the updates immediately. If the view is already open, press F5 to refresh the page.
    2. If you want to release the changes to another system, you must use Application Architect. Refer to 'Working with the Bundle Model' in the Application Architect help for more information.