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Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Glossary
- Welcome
- Installation and Setup
- Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Window
- The Design View Toolbars
- Creating Objects on a Form
- General Creation Guidelines
- Creating a Text Object
- Creating a Line Object
- Creating an Oval Object
- Creating a Rectangle Object
- Adding Graphics to Your Form
- 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 on a Form
- Changing Object Appearance on a Form
- Adding Color to a Form
- Adjusting Colors
- Editing a Form
- Advanced Features
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Technical Information
Setting up a Form for Automated Data Entry
Advanced Features 131
• To remove an entry in the
Links
box, select the entry and click
Unlink
. If you want to remove all entries in the
Links
box, click
Unlink All
.
14 Click
Finish
to close the AutoFill Wizard.
The Fill Text Definition dialog box appears.
15 Click
OK
to apply your settings and close the dialog box.
Replacing Data Entered in a Field With New Data
This section describes how you can set up a field to replace entered data
with data you have specified in a replacement list. This is useful if you
want to standardize an entry in a field. For example, suppose your form
contains a
State
field and you want the user to enter the state’s two-letter
abbreviation. You can create a field that will allow the user to enter only
the specified information. So, anytime the user enters a variant of the
state name in fill view, the replacement feature will change it to your
specified version.
To create a replacement list:
1 Open a form and select a field where you want to create a
replacement list.
2 Choose
Object Definition...
in the Format menu.
The Fill Text Definition dialog box appears.
3 Click the
Filling
tab in the Fill Text Definition dialog box.
4 Select
Enable AutoFill
and click
AutoFill Wizard...
.
5 Select
Create or edit the AutoFill of the current field
and click
Next>
.
6 Select
Replace the data entered into this field with new data
and click
Next>
.