2.0
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
Using Form Assistant
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Using Form Assistant
This section describes Form Assistant and its basic OmniForm functions.
Form Assistant is a dialog box that appears the first time you launch
OmniForm. Form Assistant makes decision-making easy when
processing a form.
This section contains the following topics:
• Opening Form Assistant
• The Form Assistant Options
• Setting the Form Assistant Startup Option
Opening Form Assistant
There are several ways to open Form Assistant.
• Form Assistant opens automatically the first time you launch
OmniForm.
Windows 95 users: click
Start
in the Taskbar and choose
Programs
OmniForm
.
Windows NT and 3.1 users: double-click the OmniForm icon in
the Caere Applications program group.
• Click the Form Assistant button in the standard toolbar at the top
of the window if OmniForm is open.
• Choose
Form Assistant...
in the File menu if OmniForm is open.
Form Assistant contains six options for basic OmniForm procedures as
described in the next section.