Generate automatic adjustment fields

FYI: INI File Help topic ExtendedAutomaticGenerationOfAdjustmentFields links to this topic, so don't delete it or change the name without updating INI Help.

Use this procedure to have FORMS help you find appropriate adjustment objects on your form and automatically create adjustment fields.

This procedure is highly recommended if you plan to use flexible forms functionality.  

  1. If there are any stray marks on the form, erase them.

  2. To ensure that conflicting objects are not selected on the form definition, define all other fields before you use this command. (Normally adjustment fields are defined first. However, when you generate automatic adjustment fields, you do it last.)

    Even if you cannot define the other fields first, you must define at least one field before you proceed.

  3. Select Edit ð Field ð Generate automatic adjustment fields.

    If adjustment fields already exist in the form definition, FORMS displays a message. You can choose to keep the existing adjustment fields and proceed, delete them and proceed, or cancel the command.

  4. Unless you see a message to the contrary (FORMS notifies you if it cannot find enough adequate adjustment objects), up to twenty five adjustment fields (including those that may have been defined traditionally) are created in the form definition. Examine each of them, ensuring that they are not...

    These are signs of unsuitable adjustment fields. See examples.

    Delete such adjustment fields and select other adjustment objects manually.

  5. Save the form definition.

Adjustment field

Traditional adjustment fields

Requirements for traditional adjustment fields

Preparing existing form definitions for use in a job with flexible forms