Building Data Entry Form

Building of data entry form is available in the desktop application.

Steps to build a form depend on form type:

• Card. It is a data entry form with one sheet containing a set of fields to enter or select dimension element attribute values. It is used to add and edit records in the registry.

• Registry Form. It is a list of elements of a specific type presented in table view. In the first columns, form sidehead, dimension element names are displayed, they can be located in hierarchical order. The first rows and form heading display attributes and element indicators.

• Table Form. It represents a table, which heading and sidehead display names of dimension elements, attributes and indicator dimension elements.

• Combined Form. It represents a multisheet form, the set and contents of sheets is generated depending on information object and its indicators. Sheets can contain cards, registry and table forms, data can be generated automatically based on data from other forms too.

NOTE. When editing multisheet data entry forms, make sure that the Load Only Active Sheet checkbox is selected to speed up work with form.

Indicators are multidimensional data united by common analytics attributes that are used to collect, store and display information from one subject area. Any of available cube types or time series database can be selected as an indicator.

Dimensions are repository dictionaries, which multidimensional indicator structure consists of.

Card

To build a card, follow the steps:

1. Set up form parameters.

2. Set up dictionary attribute editor.

3. Set up form formatting and display type.

Registry Form

To build a table form, follow the steps:

1. Set up form parameters.

2. Set up table area.

Table Form

To build a table form, follow the steps:

1. Set up form parameters.

2. Set up table area.

3. Set up links between forms.

4. Set up form formatting and display type.

5. Enhance data entry form functionality.

Combined Form

To build a combined form, follow the steps:

1. Build a card, registry or table form.

2. Add sheets.

3. Build the required form on a new sheet.

Common Steps to Save or Copy Form

The final steps are common:

1. Create a data entry form copy if required.

2. Save the data entry form. After the form structure, opened in the edit mode, is changed, save changes:

To save changes in the form, select the Data Entry Form > Save main menu item or approve changes saving in the popup message on closing the form.

NOTE. If a data entry form contains a table area, for which changed data save lock with applied control was set and unsaved changed data, a warning is displayed indicating that changed data will not be saved because it does not respect control settings. If the operation is agreed, the changed data will be reset and the operation will be applied. When the operation is canceled, the changed data remains in table area.

After the data entry/output form is built, continue to work with ready data entry form.

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