Zooming Widgets

You can zoom desktop control widgets with the mouse wheel. This also works with Apple Magic Mouse. Keyboard Shortcuts:  ‘ctrl <‘ for zoom out (no need to hold the shift) and ‘ctrl >’ for zoom in. (Mac: option < or option >)  ‘ctrl -‘ for zoom out (no need to hold the shift) and ‘ctrl … Read more

Folders

Use folders to organize your selection lists. As a Formever® system grows to incorporate more of your business operations there will be many types of forms and consequently many selection lists. This can result in a cluttered desktop making it difficult to find the data form you want. With folders you can group selection lists … Read more

Widgets

Desktop Widgets Desktop widgets are graphical control objects on the Formever desktop. They can be moved around on the desktop and zoomed to become smaller or larger. This allows you to organize your working area to be effective for yourself. Other users will have their own arrangement. There are a number of desktop control widgets … Read more

Desktop

The desktop is your working surface in Formever® and can be customized by sizing and positioning its control widgets to your liking. The desktop background is set by the administrator. Desktop Zoom What you see on the screen is part of a larger desktop. You can change your view of the desktop by zooming in … Read more

Orientation

Formever® is a business system authoring tool. It enables people trained in business to construct and operate their business systems without the need for IT expertise.  Formever reduces the complexity of developing and operating a multi-user business system to that similar to developing and using a spreadsheet. Formever is based on a theory of business … Read more

Stapled File Fields

Stapled File fields The spreadsheet data will be the path to the file that you are importing (jpg, png, pdf, Word document). During import the actual document will be imported into your Formever system. It be encrypted for cloud systems but not local system.

Detail Lines Fields

Detail Lines fields If a form has a detail block, there will be one data line with the data for the main form, followed by one or more lines of details. Example:In the sample spreadsheet, there is a main form (Products) and a detail block (Product Recipe Details) that has four lines. Different products could have … Read more

Date Fields

Date fields Follow the format as defined in your master formExample:Master form format: YY/MM/DDDate to import: December 31, 2014Spreadsheet data: 141231 Dates with leading zerosIf the data is shorter than the expected number of digits, it will be padded with preceding 00s. Example:YY/MM/DD format123 in the spreadsheet would be filled as 00/01/23 (January 1, 2000). … Read more

Quantity Fields

Quantity fields A quantity field with an alternate unitPut the unit shortcut after the number.Example: A field with the unit miles and the alternate unit kilometres (shortcut k)• 110 in the spreadsheet would result in 110 miles (default)• 110k would result in 110 kilometres (the alternate unit). A currency field with an alternate currencyPut the … Read more

Choice Fields

Choice fields Multiple choices allowedPut multiple choices in one spreadsheet cell separated with a semi-colon.Example: red;green;blue Choice field with a defaultIf no data is provided in the spreadsheet cell, the default will be used.