<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************** * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ***********************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsharedguidedata_formsxhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Working with Forms</title> <filename>/text/shared/guide/data_forms.xhp</filename> </topic> </meta> <body> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id5762199"><bookmark_value>opening;forms</bookmark_value> <bookmark_value>forms;creating</bookmark_value> <bookmark_value>design view;creating forms</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105F9" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="data_forms"><link href="text/shared/guide/data_forms.xhp">Working with Forms</link> </variable></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10617" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Using forms, you can define how to present the data. Open a text document or a spreadsheet and insert the controls such as push buttons and list boxes. In the properties dialogs of the controls, you can define what data the forms should display.</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1061A" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form With the Form Wizard</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In %PRODUCTNAME, you can create a new form using the <link href="text/shared/autopi/01090000.xhp">Form Wizard</link>:</paragraph> <list type="ordered"> <listitem> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10632" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph> </listitem> <listitem> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10636" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph> </listitem> <listitem> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Use Wizard to Create Form</emph>.</paragraph> </listitem> </list> <paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10645" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Creating a New Form Manually</paragraph> <list type="ordered"> <listitem> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1064C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open the database file where you want to create the new form.</paragraph> </listitem> <listitem> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10650" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the left pane of the database window, click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon.</paragraph> </listitem> <listitem> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Create Form in Design View</emph>.</paragraph> </listitem> </list> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1065F" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">A new text document opens. Use the <link href="text/shared/02/01170000.xhp">Form Controls</link> to insert form controls.</paragraph> <paragraph role="note" id="par_idN10670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Click the <emph>Forms</emph> icon to access all forms that were created from within the current database window. In addition, you can use the <emph>Form Controls</emph> icons to add database form controls to any Writer or Calc document, but these documents will not be listed in the database window. </paragraph> <section id="relatedtopics"> <embed href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> <embed href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> </section> </body> </helpdocument>