Conditional Forms [2]
Hi all, There is already a topic opened under Conditional forms but that is not really helping me I'm afraid :-(. I'm constructing an app around project management. One thing that makes it spec...
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MarkShnier__You
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Qrew LegendI suggest that you stick with Form Rules as having multiple forms will be endlessly frustrating to view and edit on the correct form.
The thing that you need to wrap your head around is to control fields (or a section or a whole tab) based on a rule, as opposed to to trying to make a rule that applies to a project type.
You need to ask yourself "for this field (section / tab)", under what conditions should it show hide or editable not editable. Then move onto the next field or section. Obviously if there are whole sections, that that will reduce the #of rules.
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The thing that you need to wrap your head around is to control fields (or a section or a whole tab) based on a rule, as opposed to to trying to make a rule that applies to a project type.
You need to ask yourself "for this field (section / tab)", under what conditions should it show hide or editable not editable. Then move onto the next field or section. Obviously if there are whole sections, that that will reduce the #of rules.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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Thanks Mark.
I will give it a thought and seek for a solution in dynamic rules
I would say that one of the problems is that in my current setup and plan fields are logically grouped following the project process which is a complete different layout when the applicable fields are grouped by project type.
Based on project type I would prefer to even change the 'alternate label text' based on the record type.
Would there be at least an workable process to switch between forms in view, edit and creating mode?
Thanks
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Jan-Willem S
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I will give it a thought and seek for a solution in dynamic rules
I would say that one of the problems is that in my current setup and plan fields are logically grouped following the project process which is a complete different layout when the applicable fields are grouped by project type.
Based on project type I would prefer to even change the 'alternate label text' based on the record type.
Would there be at least an workable process to switch between forms in view, edit and creating mode?
Thanks
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Jan-Willem S
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- MarkShnier__YouSure, you can control the form usage by report, so if you can mainly control the work flow so that users are working off reports to find and edit records, then you have perfect control over sticking to a particular form for a particular project type as long as the reports are separate by Project Type.
However, if a user does land on the wrong form, it is very easy to make a button to view on a a specified form or to edit in a particular form.
for example a formula URL button
URLRoot() & "db/" & dbid() & "?a=dr&dfid=10&rid=" & [Record ID#]
that will Display Record
for edit change dr to er
The dfid=10 says to use the form ID #10
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