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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
Glossary - 275
files. You make a file when you create text or graphics, give the
material a name, and save it to disk.
file name The name that identifies a file. The maximum character
length of a file name and the rules for naming a file vary under
different operating systems.
fill view The view in OmniForm in which you can fill fields in an
existing form and manage database records.
font In typography, a complete set of type in one size and style of
character. In computer usage, a collection of letters, numbers,
punctuation marks, and other typographical symbols with a consistent
appearance; the size can be changed readily.
font/text toolbar The toolbar that contains buttons for formatting
characters and paragraphs.
Form Assistant A dialog box that is set by default to open automatically
upon OmniForm launch. It contains buttons that initiate basic
OmniForm functions such as scanning forms.
form usage In OmniForm, how you can view and use a form.
format The form in which information is organized or presented. The
general shape and appearance of a printed or electronic page including
page size, character width and spacing, and line spacing, and so on.
found set A subset of records in a database retrieved during a search.
Each record contains at least one piece of information that matches
criteria set during a search such as the same name in a
Customer
field.
function A single word used by OmniForm to represent database,
mathematical, statistical, date, time, financial, logical, or text
operations within a calculation. Use the
Sum
function, for example, to
compute the sum of numbers in selected fields.
hang A term indicating that the system has stopped working and must
be rebooted.
highlight To make something visually distinct. Generally, highlighting
reverses the image on screen or otherwise makes it stand out from the
rest of the page. Highlighting is used to select an object or segment of
a page upon which to perform an editing function such as
Copy
,
Cut
,
or
Paste
.
HP AccuPage™ A dynamic auto-thresholding technology, developed
and licensed by Hewlett-Packard Corporation, that improves the
combined performance of HP scanners and OmniForm. HP AccuPage
sets scanning brightness automatically to deliver high-quality images