I need to make a form where you would enter text into text fields, use the typed data to create new fields for a completely new form. Does anyone know how to go about this?
Thank you.
Subject: GUI to create new forms
Depends on whether this happens in forground or background. If you are opening the “master” in the foreground, you can fill in all the fields and hit a button, and create the new one in the background no problem, and if you need to see it, you can save it and then declare it as a new NotesUIDocument instance (a maximum of 25 simultaneously, I have found).
Subject: GUI to create new forms
You have two basic approaches I can think of. You can use the form you have to drive the generation of DXL which you could then import into the new form. This requires learning some about DXL and a lot of experimentation, but would be free and should work for anyone using ND 6 and above. Search in this forum for a number of good posts about DXL and importing, and check out the Designer Help.
The second approach is to use a third party product such as our Midas Rich Text LSX to create the form and fields. This would be easier (in my opnion), but more expensive, and would be available for R4, R5 and ND 6. If you want an alternative third party product, I think the Ives Development people also have a tool for creating forms and fields.