1 Context:
First you are probably asking yourself what a Form Designer is, since we have only spoken about the Screen Designer before. The Form Designer is not much different. In the the Form Designer we can look into separate objects in more depth and open a dedicated page to work on them just like when designing the entire screen. Now we will structure and improve the appearance of the form that was added in the last step.
2 Result:
3 Step by step guide:
- To do so you go to the "Layout design" panel and select the object in question, you want to look at in more detail.
đĄIn this example we will select the gear wheel of the orderform "OrderForm_<YourName>/form" and then select "Open Object Master". Now you have opened a Designer for a Form Object, which we call the "Form Designer"
Here you can use different kinds of structure possibilities:
1. âSimpleSwatBlockâ -> Is used to group data fields 2. âSimpleSwatNewColumnâ -> Is used to align data fields with each other 3. âSimpleSwatFieldsetâ -> Is used to group data fields in a foldable group
- đ Search in the panel âBrowse catalog of objectsâ for the âSimpleSwatBlockâ and drag & drop it on the âShipDateâ attribute and select âSaveâ
- đ Search in the panel âBrowse catalog of objectsâ for the âSimpleSwatFieldsetâ and drag and drop it on the first âSimpleSwatBlockâ attribute and select âSaveâ
- đ Search in the preview for the data fields âCustNumâ, âOrdernumâ, âShipToIDâ,âWarehouseNumâ,âBillToIDâ,âPOâ and drag and drop them on the âSimpleSwatFieldSetâ and select âSaveâ
- đ Search in the panel âBrowse catalog of objectsâ for the âSimpleSwatNewColumnâ and drag and drop it on the fourth data field on the preview and select âSaveâ. Now the data fields are aligned to each other
- đ Select the object âSimpleSwatFieldsetâ and search in the âAttributesâ panel for the attribute âLABELâ and insert the âAttribute Valueâ -> âBase Order Informationâ and select âSaveâ.
- đ Close the Form Designer with the small x icon
4 Explanation:
With the different structuring options, you can customize the form according to your requirements. You can group, separate, and make them collapsible. In addition, there are other objects to design the form. For example the block that is used to control the responsiveness and line breaks of the data fields.