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Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Tutorials
- Views and Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Toolbars
- Creating Objects
- General Creation Guidelines
- Creating a Text Object
- Creating a Line Object
- Creating an Oval Object
- Creating a Rectangle Object
- Creating a Graphic Object
- Creating a Fill Text Object
- Creating a Comb Object
- Creating a Check Box Object
- Creating a Circle Text Object
- Creating a Table Object
- Creating a Fill Graphic Object
- Defining Objects
- Changing Object Appearance
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Calculation Overview
- Operators
- Functions
- Abs (Absolute Value)
- Avg (Average)
- Date (Current Date)
- DayName
- DayOfMonth
- DayOfWeek
- DayOfYear
- Exp (Exponentiation)
- FV (Future Value)
- Hour
- If
- Int (Integer)
- Left
- Length
- Ln (Natural Logarithm)
- Log (Base 10 Logarithm)
- Lower
- Max (Maximum)
- Middle
- Min (Minimum)
- Minute
- Mod (Modulus (Remainder))
- Month
- MonthName
- Pi
- PMT (Payment)
- Position
- Proper
- PV (Present Value)
- RecordCount
- Replace
- Replicate
- Right
- Round
- Second
- Sign
- Sqrt (Square Root)
- Sum
- Time
- Trim
- Trunc (Truncate)
- Upper
- Year
- Functions — Quick Reference
- Functions Sorted by Type
- Technical Information
- Glossary
Protecting Your Database
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Protecting Your Database
It is important to protect information and form design in your database.
This section describes how to use the OmniForm protection options to
protect both your data and form design from potential deletions or
changes, as well as the benefits of using the OmniForm Filler program.
If your OmniForm database has an administrator, check with the
administrator first before making any changes.
Protecting Data
Many databases have multiple users. Until a user is familiar with
database concepts and how to use OmniForm, you may want to protect
the information (data) entered in fill view from deletion or change.
To protect your data:
1 If you are in fill view, click the Design button in the standard
toolbar or choose
Design
in the View menu to switch to design
view.
2 Choose
Protection...
in the Tools menu.
The Protection dialog box appears.
3Select
Protect Data.
4 Click
OK.
Information in fill view is now read-only. All the commands
and buttons associated with protected operations are grayed
out.
5 Click the Fill button in the standard toolbar or choose
Fill
in the
View menu to switch to fill view.
6 Place your cursor in a fill text field and try to type text.