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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
Managing Database Records
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To save a record:
1 If you are in design view, click the Fill button in the design tool-
bar or choose
Fill
in the View menu to switch to fill view.
2 Choose
Save Record
in the Records menu.
OmniForm saves your record to the database.
Exporting Information
This section explains the benefits of exporting information, how to
prepare for export, and how to export information from an open
OmniForm form.
See “Importing Information” on page 193 for information on how to
import information into a database.
The Benefits of Exporting Information
Export information from records to:
• Share information with other OmniForm databases.
Information exported as a database file takes up considerably less
disk space than the database itself. It can be copied or mailed more
quickly than the entire database.
• Share information from different databases.
For example, you might have a FoxPro database and decide that
you need information already entered in an OmniForm database.
Simply export the needed information from OmniForm in the
appropriate format and use FoxPro’s commands to import it.
• Save other database users the time of entering data manually by
sending them an OmniForm Data or other database file.
Preparing for Export
During import, you will
link
field names in the exported data file to field
names in the import database. This tells OmniForm where to place the
field information. If possible, try to:
• Match field names in the exported data to field names in the
import database.
• Match field order in the exported data to field order in the import
database.
This makes it easier to figure out which information will go in which
fields when you link the fields on import.