Use the following procedure to add pages to existing forms and create a multi-page form that you can associate with an item. By adding pages to a form, you can achieve greater flexibility and accuracy in specifications based on that form.
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If you want to use large notes in a form, you need to add a large note page to this form. Because it is possible to scroll the large note page area, you do not need to add more than one large note page to a form. When printing forms containing a large note page, the software divides the page into separate sheets automatically, depending on the note text length.
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A form that contains a composite page cannot contain any other pages because you can only include one composite page in a form.
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In the Form Editor, select Actions > Open Form
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On the Select Specification Form dialog, select the form to which you want to add pages, and select OK.
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In the Form Editor, select Actions > New Page
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On the Select Specification Page dialog, select the page that you want to include in the form.
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To edit the page name and description, select Properties and type the required modifications.
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The process function of the form is determined by the pages in the form. If the process function of all the pages within a form is General, the form process function is also General. If an added page has a different process function, the form process function changes to the new page process function. In this case, adding a new page is available only for pages with General or the same process function as the form.
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Select OK.
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Sort the pages within the form as you require.
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Do one of the following:
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To save the changes that you made, on the menu bar, select Actions > Save.
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To save the form under a new name, on the menu bar, select Actions > Save as Form.
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If you are building a form incorporating pages with identical custom field names, (for example, Page 1 and Page 2) the following scenario can occur:
On Page 1, the spec_udf_c13 field value is A, whereas, on Page 2, the value is B. When adding Page 2 to the form, the software changes the spec_udf_c13 value to B on Page 1, according to the value on Page 2. -
In a multi-page form, you should use a given specification custom field name on more than one page only for a field that you design for constancy across all the form pages.