IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

86 IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to building and integrating a sample Workplace Forms application

As an example, we formatted the price and amount with the following properties as shown in

Figure 4-22.

򐂰 Set the

Data Type to Dollar.

򐂰 Set the

Numeric Format to Comma delimit.

򐂰 In the

Constraints on Input section, set the Length to 1 to 10.

If you do not find an appropriate constraint for you purpose you can define an individual

template in the Constraints on Input section to match your requirements on input formatting.

Figure 4-22 Field Format Properties Dialog

4.5.2 Adding input items to the wizard pages

The purpose of the wizard pages is to perform a guided interview for the user that makes it a

lot easier and more intuitive to fill out a complex form. The individual wizard pages break up

the traditional form page in meaningful parts of the information for the user to fill in. A good

approach in adding the input items to these pages is to copy and paste the respective fields

from the traditional form to the wizard pages, since this will also copy your computes along

with the formats. You may then reformat the fields and layout items to fit your needs. (See

Figure 4-23.)