Form Designer Overview

When you create a new workflow type (not copied from an existing workflow type), and view the new form in the Form Designer, most (although not all) standard fields are visible and arranged in the pre-formatted form. Any new fields that you added on the Fields on Form tab display at the bottom of the form. You can use the Form Designer to re-arrange the fields to suit your specific needs and requirements.

With the Form Designer, you can do the following:

See Standard Fields for a list of the standard fields and descriptions. For information about the process for adding fields to a form, see Process for Adding Fields to a Form.

Customizing Workflow Types and Running Reports

The PM Compass reports are designed to print standard workflow types. If you add fields or columns to a workflow type, they will not display on the report. If you run a report for a workflow type that contains different information than the standard report, the report will fail. See Reports Overview for more information about reports.

Using the Form Designer

Use the following areas to assist you in designing your tabs and fields:

The Form Designer and User Defined Help

You can use the Form Designer to create your own online help topics for tabs. These help features allow your company to ensure better business rules, or specify more detailed instructions.

You can create help in one of the following ways:

Overall Designer Application Instructions

Form Tabs

The fields displayed on the tabs depend on the type of form you want to customize.

See Workflow Overview for more information about each workflow type.

What do you want to do?

Make a Standard field visible

Learn about the Form Designer toolbar

Customize form elements using the Form Designer

Work with tabs

Work with fields

Work with group boxes

Work with locked, hidden, or required fields

Add a custom tool tip

Add a custom help text icon


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