Creating a Tile form (Design Mode)

Note: This topic is for the creation of Tile forms in Design Mode (Windows clients). For the procedure to create these forms in the Web Designer, see the help topic Creating a Tile form (Web Designer).
  1. In Design Mode, start the New Form Wizard.
  2. In the first page of the wizard, select the Create new form option, and then click Next.
  3. In the next page, complete the following required fields:
    • In the Name field, perform one of these actions:
      • Select from the drop-down list the name of an existing form to use as the basis for the new form.
      • Type a unique name for the new form.  

        Form names must be unique.

        This must be the same IDO that is the data source for the component where the tile form is to be used.

    • From the Form Type drop-down list, select Tile.
    • From the Data Source drop-down list, select an IDO to return the primary collection.
  4. Optionally, specify a default Device Type , a Query Form, and any comments.

    Comments are stored with the form definition and do not appear anywhere on the actual form.

  5. Click Next.
  6. In the next page of the wizard (Select Properties), specify the properties of the IDO that are to be used with components in the new form.

    See New Form Wizard, Select Properties page.

  7. Click Next.
  8. In the next page of the wizard (Properties), you can specify:
    • The order in which the properties are listed
    • The captions for properties/components
    • What component class, if any, is to be applied to each property/component

    See New Form Wizard, Properties.

  9. Click Next .
  10. Optionally, to create a template from the new form, select the Save Template option.
  11. Click Finish.

The Windows client then creates the form and opens a rough draft version in Design Mode.

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