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USING VPLUS/V AN INTRO. TO FORMS DESIGN Self-Paced Training Guide

SELECT ADD OPTION 

Action 

When ENTER is pressed for the Forms File Menu, the Main Menu is issued.
Enter A in the selection box to add a form, as shown in Figure 5-2.
Press ENTER.


          Figure 5-3.  Form Menu for the TOTALS Form 

When you press ENTER, a new Form Menu is displayed.

Action 

Name the new form TOTALS by typing TOTALS in the Form Name field, as
shown in Figure 5-3.  The other default values need not be changed.
Press ENTER.

You specify the Next Form option such that this form follows the first
form (ORDER) and, after the totals are entered, the first form is
repeated.  You could have changed the Next Form Name to ORDER to repeat
the first form.  However, with only two forms in the forms file, you left
the default value of $HEAD as the Next Form Name for the TOTALS form,
which will achieve the same result.


          Figure 5-4.  Form Menu for the ORDER Form 

When you press ENTER to record the TOTALS form, a blank screen is
displayed on which to design layout for the TOTALS form.  Before you
design the new form layout, let's return to the Form Menu for ORDER.

Action 

Press PREV FORM twice.  On the Form Menu for ORDER, change the Next Form
Name from $HEAD to TOTALS and supply a new comment, as shown in Figure
5-4.  Press ENTER.

As a result of the new Next Form Name, when data has been entered on the
first form, ORDER, the next form issued by ENTRY is the TOTALS form.


          Figure 5-5.  Form Layout for TOTALS 

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