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Form Designer Tool Box

The Toolbox displays icons for items that you can add to WordFusion Question Files. The Toolbox is available from the View menu. You can dock the Toolbox and either leave it pinned open or set it to Auto Hide.
Each Toolbox icon can be dragged and dropped onto a design view surface or copied and pasted into a code editor within the WordFusion designer.

The Toolbox in the WordFusion Designer

Form Designer Toolbox 

Function

Control

Description

DataSource and navigation

DataSource component

Simplifies binding fields on a form to data.

Text editing

TextBox

Displays text entered at design time that can be edited by users at run time, or changed programmatically.

 

Numeric

Displays text formatted as numeric entered at design time that can be edited by users at run time, or changed programmatically.

Information display (read-only)

Label

Displays text that users cannot directly edit.

 

Banner

Displays text that users cannot directly edit in a header or banner style

 

ScriptControl

This is essentially a TextBox that is not visible to the user at assemble time.

Selection from a list

Choices

Displays a list of items that can be displayed as a list box, drop down, check boxes or radio buttons

Graphics display

PictureBox

Displays graphical files, such as bitmaps and icons, in a frame.

 

PictureField

Displays graphical files, such as bitmaps and icons, in a frame and allows them to be assembled into a document template and saved to an InfoFile.

Date setting

DateTimePicker

Displays a graphical calendar to allow users to select a date or a time.

Commands

Button

Starts a process when the user clicks the button.

Boolean

CheckBox

Indicates whether a particular condition is on or off. It is commonly used to present a Yes/No or True/False selection to the user

 

Yes/No

Indicates a Yes/No or True/False selection to the user

Repeat

Repeat

Used to create multiple records, these records will be child of form or repeat it is placed inside.

For example a repeat may contain invoice lines for an invoice.

Clauses

ClauseLibrary

Displays a list of optional clauses selectable by the user at Assemble time. Clause Library controls use Clause Files created by a designer and can nest Clause Files within one another.

Grouping other controls

Panel

Groups a set of controls on an unlabeled, scrollable frame.

 

GroupBox

Groups a set of controls (such as radio buttons) on a labeled, non-scrollable frame.

 

TabControl

Provides a tabbed page for organizing and accessing grouped objects efficiently.

 

MasterForm Link

Can be set to display another Form within a Parent Question File. Useful to display standard Form or templates.