Re: forms6 one data block multiple tab pages

From: Eric C. Janzen <ejanzen_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:04:11 GMT
Message-ID: <LMZn4.9068$jW4.129596_at_news0.telusplanet.net>

Shouldn't be a problem. We use multi-tab forms throughout our application, and they often have information on different tabs from the same block.

Try this:

Create the tab canvases. Leave 'em blank for now.

Eg: Create Canvas TAB with pages PAGE1, PAGE2, PAGE3

Go to the items on the block that you want to be on page one and select them all using shift-click.
Change the "Canvas" property to TAB and the "Tab Page" property to "PAGE1"

Go to the items on the block that you want to be on page two and select them all using shift-click.
Change the "Canvas" property to TAB and the "Tab Page" property to "PAGE2"

Go to the items on the block that you want to be on page three and select them all using shift-click.
Change the "Canvas" property to TAB and the "Tab Page" property to "PAGE3"

Now using the layout editor, confirm that the proper items are on the proper tab pages and move them around however you like.

Hope this helps..

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Eric Janzen
E. Janzen Consulting Inc.
Oracle Development Specialist

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<robin777_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:87neek$7u2$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I need to create a "5 page" form for entering data into a table
> with a LOT of fields. I thought I could create the data block and
> lay it out onto a 5 page tabbed canvas. But I keep getting the
> effect that when I layout the second page, I find the data I had
> laid out on the first page has become attached to the null_canvas.
> The layout editor is behaving as though it will only allow one block to
> one tab page. Is it really possible to divide one data block that is one
> record onto 5 tab pages? If so, how does get form builder 6 to do it? I
> have tried everything I could think of to outwit it and it's
> not happening. Or if there's an easier way to create a multipage form
> I'd love to hear about it. thanks!
>
>
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Received on Tue Feb 08 2000 - 20:04:11 CET