Creating a "Widget" with Form Builder

Form Builder is a form wizard that allows you to build simple forms in Runtime Mode, without having to use the Web Designer in the web client or go into Design Mode in the Windows client. Although Form Builder provides a number of layouts and uses from which to choose, the procedure for creating a form with Form Builder is essentially the same.

The WIdget option creates small forms designed to be used as widgets in an Infor Ming.le environment, usually with a single purpose in mind.

Open the Runtime Builder Selection form by clicking the Runtime Builder icon on the toolbar.
From the Category drop-down list, select Form Builder.
From the Runtime Builder drop-down list, select Widget.
Click OK.
Select the layout to use for your form, from these layout options:
- Graph, which uses two IDO properties to construct a bar chart that compares two IDO property values.
- List, which uses a list format to display the data from two IDO properties. To display the data, this list uses a tile form created at the same time as the widget form.
- List with Icons, which uses a list format to display data from two IDO properties, along with an accompanying icon. The icon reference (third property) must be a reference to a binary large object (BLOB) property. To display the data, this uses a tile form created at the same time as the widget form.
- Widget Input, which allows up to five IDO properties to add a record to an IDO collection.
Provide these values:

Enter the form name

Supply the name of the form to create.

Select an IDO to use with this form

From the drop-down list, select the IDO to use as the source of data for the form.
Click Next.
On the second page of Form Builder, from the list of Available IDO properties, select up to the allowable number of properties for the type of widget you are creating.
When you are finished selecting the properties to include, click Finish.

The wizard generates the new widget and launches it, along with the tile form, if one is created. You can now use the new widget for its intended purpose.