Form names, naming conventions

When you create a form, the New Form Wizard or New Data Maintenance Wizard prompts you for a form name. This is the internal name by which the form is to be known in the system and stored in the forms database. The form name must be unique (as opposed to the caption, which displays in the title bar and can be duplicated on multiple forms).

When deciding on a name for the form we recommend that you:

• Use the name of the IDO associated with the form. (The New Data Maintenance Wizard automatically assigns the same name to both the IDO and the form.)

  If the collection name is already used as a form name, add something to the end of the collection name to make it unique.

• Use names that contain only alphanumeric characters and the underscore (_) character.

  Alphanumeric characters include the letters a-z, either upper case or lower case, and the numerals 0-9.

• For query forms, use the name of the IDO collection to be queried in association with the base form and append "Query" to it.

  This easily identifies the form as a query form.

After you create the form, we recommend that you change the form's caption as soon as possible (see Form Captions, Naming Conventions).