Clarity RapportForms
Clarity RapportForms extends Rapport Pro to allow
design and completion of
forms that can be printed or distributed through electronic mail or
fax.
Designing Forms
The full capabilities of Rapport Pro may be used by the form
designer to
create form "backgrounds" that include sophisticated word processing,
graphics, and spreadsheets. Point-and-click insertion of
text fields, checkboxes, option boxes, and buttons
for launching tasks is easy with any
Rapport Pro application type. Data in form fields
placed in spreadsheets may
be included in spreadsheet calculations and in charts.
Each form field can be associated with macros
that are executed when the
field is entered, changed, or exited. Such macros may be used for altering
the field fill-in sequence, calling data base access programs, and almost
anything else the designer may need to automate the process.
Users completing Rapport forms use the tab key to navigate from field to
field, with the "background" fully protected.
As each field is entered,
explanations for completion appear at the bottom of the window. As each field
is completed, the user is automatically taken to the next applicable field
in the order specified by the designer.
Integration Possibilities
Like all Clarity Rapport products, RapportForms may be integrated with
other
applications or data files using standard development tools and Clarity's
Facility for Linkage and EXtension (FLEX). Using
FLEX, Clarity's macro and
API facility, you can pass information typed into form fields to a data base
lookup routine; automatically fax completed forms to designated
recipients, or tie the forms into a workgroup process.
Key Features
- Use all Rapport Pro applications for design of very simple to very
complex forms
- Full page format controls, including multiple columns, annotations,
layouts and templates
- Typographic controls, including kerning, leading, widow and orphan
control, hyphenation
- Automatic paragraph numbering, formatting, and alignment
- Mix portrait and landscape pages in one document
- Horizontal and vertical ruler guides
- Adjustable row/column sizes, combined cells, full font support in
spreadsheet
- Charts with live linking to spreadsheet data
- Standard shape and freehand drawing tools with fill and border colors
- Import of raster images or screen capture from anywhere on the display
- Full control over tab order for traversal through form
- Text fields, check boxes, option boxes, and buttons
- All fields may have actions specified when fields
are entered, changed, or exited
- Place form fields in word processor, spreadsheet, and/or drawing area
- Data in form fields within a spreadsheet may be used in spreadsheet
calculations and in charting
- Scan existing forms and place form fields over the scanned image
- Forms may be of any length
Field Attributes
- Text field attributes specify number of lines, fixed/variable size,
maximum characters, data type, border, and capitalization
- Text fields may have list of predefined entries that may be exclusive
or not
- Text fields in spreadsheets use standard cell formatting
- Use word processing tools for font, style, color, and justification in
text fields
- Check box attributes specify marker type, radio grouping, on/off/don't
care state
- Option box attributes specify items in a pop-up list, selected by
mouse-click
- Buttons may be linked to flex macro commands
- Fields may be drawn "by eye" or by specifying exact dimensions and
placement
- Tab from one field to the next
- Navigate directly by clicking in form field
- Non-field parts of the form may be changed by designer-specified macros
as a result of data entered into form fields
- Instructions for each field may appear at the bottom of the screen
- Completed forms may be printed, sent via electronic mail, or faxed
- User may not alter non-field parts of the form
- Form design is separately licensed to named users to ensure form
integrity
- May prevent users from changing or viewing specified fields
FLEX Application Integration
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- Use to specify custom actions
when user enters, changes, or exits a field, such as:
- Verify data entered against a file
- Fill in and/or protect other fields
- Automatically send completed form to others
- Use to integrate RapportForms with other applications
- Develop macros using industry-standard programming languages
- May directly interrogate or update form field contents
- Hundreds of predefined flex commands
- Exchange data with other applications using the Rapport Programmer's
Interface (RPI)
- Use industry-standard gui tools for developing custom buttons, dialog
boxes, etc.
- Leverage sample RPI programs (source and executables included)
Documentation
- Forms User's Guide
- Context-sensitive help
- On-line User's Guide with index to topics, keyword search, bookmarks
(printed guide optional)
- FLEX Programmer's Guide (optional)
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Date last updated: October 18, 1995