Creating forms

This application provides a variety of ways for you to create your own forms, to suit your needs and purposes. Depending on the type of environment you are working in—whether "on-premises" or cloud, whether using the Windows ("smart") client or a web client—the tools and procedures you use to create your own forms varies somewhat. Your level of editing permissions also determines, to a greater or lesser extent, what forms you can create.

Working in the cloud, using a web client

In web-based environments, you have these options for creating forms:

Use the New Form Definition wizard in the Web Designer.
Use one of the Runtime Builder form wizards made available for use during runtime.
These wizards typically create one type of form each. The forms created by the Runtime Builder might be more limited than the same form types created in the Web Designer.

Working in the Windows ("smart") client

In an on-premises environment, forms are created using Design Mode. Design Mode provides these tools for creating forms, and often their required tables and IDOs:

The New Form Wizard
The New Data Maintenance Wizard
The XML to IDO Wizard

You can also use the Runtime Builder form wizards in the Windows client, without having to go into Design Mode.

Forms created in a Windows client (on-premises environment) are typically created for use specifically with the Windows ("smart") client, although not necessarily. They can potentially be more complex and provide more functionality than forms created for web client use only.