Too many forms to select from

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Our list of forms is growing in one of my DB’s and Create only displays the 1’st 9 of them, meaning the user must hit Other to display and pick from the list. Is there a way to sub-catergorize forms under Create, as in:

Create => Group A => Form 1

Create => Group A => Form 2, etc,

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Create => Group B => Form X,

Create => Group B => Form Y

The only way I’ve come up with sofar is to write agents for each form in Group B and have them appear under Actions, and the remainder to still appear under Create.

Is there another way or a better way to do this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Subject: Too many forms to select from…

I’m not sure if this is what you mean, but you could name the forms like:

GroupA\Form1

GroupA\Form2

GroupB\FormY

GroupB\FormZ

When you click create, they will be cascaded showing Form1 and Form2 under GroupA and FormY and FormZ under GroupB.

HTH

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Subject: RE: Too many forms to select from…

Thanks Karen,

I guess that would work, but by re-naming all my forms, how does affect all the docs already created using Form1 when the new form name is GroupA\Form1 ? There are 1000’s of them.

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Subject: RE: Too many forms to select from…

You can set the Form alias name as “Form1” for your Form “GroupA\Form1”. The alias name is used to populate/overwrite the Form field (if the alias name exists, else the Form name will be used), and it is also used to display the corresponding Form, when the field called “Form” exists on a document.

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Subject: Too many forms to select from…THANKS!

Tested on a sample DB …works like a charm. (also searched on alias in help too…oops)

Learn something new every day…

Thanks, Karen and Mika for your help!

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Subject: i.e. Form Name: “GroupA\Form1 | Form1”

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Subject: And if the forms already had aliases (as they should’ve), there will be no effect at all