Defining forms to hold and display data

Use forms to capture and display information. A form typically includes related components such as employee and department information. A form contains fields in which the information is entered and displayed. The collection of fields represents a record of information in AR System. While the entries comprise the rows of a database table, the fields comprise the columns.

Forms are created and defined using the following steps. To make sure that all form components are properly defined, follow the steps in the order listed.

1. Create a form (see Creating-forms).
2. Set form properties (see Setting-form-properties).
3. Plan the layout of a form (see Arranging-fields-in-a-form-view).
4. Create fields on a form (see Creating-and-managing-fields).
5. Set field properties (see Field-Properties).
6. Create form views (see Creating-form-views).

This section discusses the following sections about types of forms available, and the tasks used to create them: