IBM Lotus Symphony


Form Navigator

Opens the Form Navigator. The Form Navigator displays all forms and subforms of the current document with their respective controls.

When using several forms, the Form Navigator gives an overview of all forms, and also provides various functions for editing them.

To access this command...

Open Forms toolbar from the Main Toolbar, click Form Navigator icon.

New

Adds new elements to the form. The Add function can only be called if a form is selected in the Form Navigator.

Form

Adds new elements to the form. The Add function can only be called if a form is selected in the Form Navigator.

Hidden Controls

Creates a hidden control in the selected formula that is not visible on screen and is hidden from the user. A hidden control serves to include data that is transmitted together with the formula. It contains additional information or clarifying text that you can specify when creating the formula through the Special Properties of the control. Select the entry of the hidden control in the Formula Navigator and select the Properties command.

You can copy controls in the document through the clipboard (shortcut keys Ctrl+C for copying and Ctrl+V for inserting). You can copy hidden controls in the Form Navigator by using drag-and-drop while keeping the Ctrl key pressed.

Drag and drop to copy controls within the same document or between documents. Open another form document and drag the hidden control from the Form Navigator into the Form Navigator of the target document. Click a visible control directly in the document, rest the mouse for a moment so that a copy of the control is added to the drag-and-drop clipboard, then drag the copy into the other document. If you want a copy in the same document, press Ctrl while dragging.

Delete

Deletes the selected entry. This allows you to delete individual form components as well as whole forms with one mouse click.

Tab order

When a form is selected, it opens the Tab Order dialog, where the indices for focusing the control elements on the Tab key are defined.

Rename

Renames the selected object.

Properties

Starts the Properties dialog for the selected entry.


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