CliqForm
User Guide

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Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction

  • Using CliqForm
  • How to Use this Guide
  • Documentation Conventions
  • Before You Start

Chapter 1:  Getting Started With CliqForm

  • Creating a Form
    • Accessing CliqForm
    • Naming Files
    • Form Design Screen
    • Placing Text on Your Form
    • Adding More Text Display Objects
    • Save and Continue
    • Suspending CliqFormModifying and Moving Text
    • Adding Text Attributes
    • Deleting Text Display Objects
    • Removing Blank Lines
    • Adding the Date and Time
    • <GO TO>
    • Drawing Lines and Boxes
    • Save and Exit
    • Quick Access to Your Form
    • Printing Your Form
  • Preparing a Form for Data Entry
    • Accessing Your Form
    • Adding a Response Field
    • Saving Your Form
    • CliqForm Databases
    • Exiting Your Form
  • Using Your Form On-Line
    • Accessing the Form and Database
    • Adding a Record
    • Saving a Record
    • Clearing a Record
    • Adding Another Record
    • Searching Records
    • Displaying and Modifying Records
    • Printing Records
    • Changing to Input Data
    • Exit CliqForm
    • What You Learned

Chapter 2:  CliqForm at a Glance

  • Form Design Screen
  • Function Keys and Menus
  • Control Keys

Chapter 3:  Forms

  • Attributes
    • New Objects
    • Existing Objects
  • Remove
  • Text Displays
  • Fields
  • Calendar Display
    • Add
    • Modify
  • Compute Operations as Defaults
  • Copy
  • Create a Form
    • Create
    • Exit
  • Cursor Movement
  • Date and Time Display
    • Add as Object
    • Add to Text Display
    • Modify Date Display
  • Default Field Contents
  • Delete
  • Drawing Lines and Boxes
    • Access Draw Mode
    • Draw Object
    • Delete
    • Copy or Move
    • Resize
    • Line/Box Definition Menu
  • Edit a Form
  • Editing Modes
  • Field Formats
  • Fonts
    • New Text Display
    • Existing Text Display
  • Form Objects
    • Text Display
    • Response Fields
    • Calendar/Date Display
    • Lines and Boxes
  • Generate a Database
  • Go To
  • Line Insert/Delete
  • Marking
  • Move
  • Object Coordinates Box
  • Order Fields
  • Page Breaks
  • Print Fonts
  • Prompts
  • Response Fields
    • Add
    • Field Definition Screen
    • Edit Field Definition Screen
  • Saving a Form
    • Save and Continue
    • Save As
    • Save and Exit
    • Discard Changes
  • Scrolling
  • Status Line
  • Text Display
    • Add
    • Edit
  • Units of Measure
    • Change Unit
  • User Settings

Chapter 4:  Databases

  • Create Database from the Desk
  • Create and Define
  • Fixed Format Definition Screen
  • List File Definition Screen
  • Database Types
  • Generate Database from a Form
  • Modify Database Definition
  • During Form Design
  • From the Tools Menu
  • Saving a Database Definition
  • Save and Continue
  • Save As
  • Save and Exit
  • Discard Changes

Chapter 5:  Data Processing

  • Attributes
    • New Text
    • Existing Text
  • Browse Records
  • Compute Operations
  • Condensed Format
  • Copy Database
    • Access
    • Copy Database
    • Copy from List
    • New List
    • Edit List
  • Copying Data
  • Copying Records to the Clipboard
  • Date and Time
  • Deleting Data
  • Deleting Records
  • Field Types and Characteristics
  • Fonts
  • Go To
  • Input Data
    • Access
    • Save a Record
    • Clear a Record
    • Change to Search Data
  • Marking
  • Modify Records
    • Access Records
    • Display and Modify
    • Save Record
  • Moving Data
  • Save Records to Another Database
    • Matched Records Listing
    • While Modifying Records
  • Search Records
    • Access
    • Enter Criteria
    • Change to Input Data

Chapter 6:  Printing

  • Control Files
    • Create
    • Select Sort Keys
    • Selection Criteria
    • Modify Control Files
    • Print a Control File
  • Print Data in Listing Format
  • Print Data on Pre-printed Form
  • Print Database Definition
  • Print During Data Processing
    • Print Single Record
    • Print Multiple Records
    • Print and Clear
  • Print Form Only
  • Print Form with Data
  • Print Options
  • Print Screen

Chapter 7:  CliqForm on the Desk

  • Accessing CliqForm Files
    • File Types
    • File Relationships
    • Access
  • Copy Database
  • Input Data
  • New
  • Objects Named Menu
  • Open
  • Print
  • Search

Index