Select Form Dialog Box

Use this dialog box to select a form to open. In this dialog box, you can:

Display the list of forms using either the form's caption or its internal system name.

NOTE: The caption is the title of the form as it displays in the title bar. The internal system name is the name used by the system to identify the form. In most cases, you will want to use the caption.

Use filtering to narrow the choices available and make it easier to find the form you want.

To select and open a form:

Locate the form you want from the list displayed.

To narrow the list, you can filter it. See the Filter options in the following table.

Click to select the form you want to open.

Click OK.

Dialog Box Elements

The following table lists the elements of this dialog box and explains their use.

Group	Element	Function/Comments
List of forms	Displays all forms in the current forms database. This field displays forms in two columns, one by Caption (form title) and one by internal system Name. By default, the Caption column is primary and displays on the left side. Forms are arranged alphabetically by caption. Forms are listed alphabetically by caption or by internal system name.
Select by name instead of caption	When selected, switches the columns so that the internal system Name column is primary and displays on the left side. Forms are arranged alphabetically by these names.
Filter	All containing	Enter a word or set of characters by which you want to filter the form list. For example, if you wanted to locate the Users form easily, you would enter Users in this field. When you click Filter, the system would retrieve a list of only those forms with "Users" in the form caption or name.
Case-sensitive	If you want the system to search for forms that have the same capitalization as the value you entered in the All containing field, select this check box. Otherwise, the system disregards capitalization when retrieving the list of forms. For example, if you enter App in the All containing field, and you select this check box, the resulting search would include the Applicant Education form, but not the Account Number Mapping form.
Filter (button)	After you have set your search criteria in the All containing and Case-sensitive options, click this button to retrieve the filtered list.

Group

Element

Function/Comments

List of forms

Displays all forms in the current forms database.

This field displays forms in two columns, one by Caption (form title) and one by internal system Name. By default, the Caption column is primary and displays on the left side. Forms are arranged alphabetically by caption.

Forms are listed alphabetically by caption or by internal system name.

Select by name instead of caption

When selected, switches the columns so that the internal system Name column is primary and displays on the left side. Forms are arranged alphabetically by these names.

Filter

All containing

Enter a word or set of characters by which you want to filter the form list.

For example, if you wanted to locate the Users form easily, you would enter Users in this field. When you click Filter, the system would retrieve a list of only those forms with "Users" in the form caption or name.

Case-sensitive

If you want the system to search for forms that have the same capitalization as the value you entered in the All containing field, select this check box. Otherwise, the system disregards capitalization when retrieving the list of forms.

For example, if you enter App in the All containing field, and you select this check box, the resulting search would include the Applicant Education form, but not the Account Number Mapping form.

Filter (button)

After you have set your search criteria in the All containing and Case-sensitive options, click this button to retrieve the filtered list.

Select Form Dialog Box

To select and open a form:

Dialog Box Elements

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