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Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Window
- 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
- The Shared Form Property
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Technical Information
What Is a Database?
2 Managing an OmniForm Database
What Is a Database?
A database is a collection of information stored as individual
records.
Each record uses the same form design but can contain different
information in its fields.
OmniForm automatically creates a database when you scan in or import
a form. As soon as you fill in the form, it becomes the first record in a
new database. Any user of this database can create a new, blank form
using the record as a template and then filling in new information to
create another record. This makes it possible to store a large amount of
similar information and retrieve it quickly and easily.
The user who designed
this daily planner cre-
ates a new record
each day. So far, this
user has a database
containing three
records.
The user can sort these
records by date or oth-
er entries and search
for information in any
field.
Record 1
Record 2
Record 3