Using VPLUS: An Introduction to Forms Design (32209-90004)

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ORDER_LINE Contains fields in which to enter quantity, part number,
description, unit price, and total price of a single
part (order line from the ORDER form).
ORDER_TOTALS Contains totals for entire order (identical to the
TOTALS form).
Using FORMSPEC, you can copy forms within an existing file or to a new
forms file. Therefore, rather than typing in the two forms, ORDER_HEAD
and ORDER_LINE, let's copy the ORDER form twice within the ORDFORM1
forms
file. You can then modify the two copies of the ORDER form and give the
TOTALS form a new name, ORDER_TOTALS.
Since forms are kept in alphabetical order in the forms file, the
ORDER_HEAD form will be the first form in the file. By default, the
first form is treated as the head form and is the form displayed first by
ENTRY.
Figure 7-2. The Main Menu
COPY FORMS
Assuming you have run FORMSPEC and opened a forms file, the steps to copy
a form are:
1. On the Main Menu, specify a C in the selection box, the name of
the form to be copied, and a name for the new form. Optionally,
you may need to specify the name of the forms file containing the