User manual NUANCE OMNIFORM 2 REFERENCE FOR MACINTOSH

[. . . ] OmniForm Reference ® Version 2 for Macintosh CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95030-3321 European Offices: Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 Munich Germany Caere UK Information Centre Abbey House, 4 Abbey Orchard Street Westminster, London SW1P2JJ, U. K. Please Note To use this program, you should know how to work in the Macintosh environment. Please refer to your Macintosh documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, and so on. OmniForm Reference Version 2. 01 for Macintosh Copyright© 1997 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, Logical Form Recognition, and OmniForm® are trademarks of Caere Corporation. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. [. . . ] Either click anywhere on the form to create a four-element table, or hold down the mouse button and drag the cursor slowly. The number of elements in the comb field increases as you drag the mouse. Release the mouse button when the comb field contains the number of elements you want. Many sample forms included with your OmniForm package, such as the Objects form, contain comb objects that you can copy and paste into your own form. You can also copy objects from the Scrap Album. Designing a Form 6-13 Creating Objects Creating a Check Box Object Use check boxes for Yes/No questions and for selecting one or more choices on a form. 1 2 Click the Check Box tool in the drawing toolbar. Draw a check box. To create a square check box, hold down the Shift key as you draw. Creating a Circle Text Object Use circle text objects for Yes/No questions and for selecting one or more choices on a form (see the example in the previous section). Draw a circle text object. To create a circle instead of an oval, hold down the Shift key as you draw. 3 With the object still selected, type the text you want to replace the number in the object. Creating a Table Object Use a table to enter information for order forms, invoices, comparison charts, purchase orders, and so forth. Each cell contains a fill text object by default, with the exception of the header. The header cells contain text objects by default. 6-14 Designing a Form Creating Objects You can convert these objects to any other kind of object. See "Redesigning a Table" on page 6-38 and "Placing Objects in Table Cells" on page 6-42 for more information on tables. To create a table object: 1 2 Click the Table tool in the drawing toolbar. Either click anywhere on the form to create a table, or hold down the mouse button and drag the cursor slowly. The number of rows and columns in the comb field increase as you drag the mouse. Let go of the mouse button when the table contains the number of rows and columns you want. To create a square table, hold down the Shift key as you draw. Creating a Fill Graphic Object Use a fill graphic object to illustrate text, such as a diagram, or as a design element, such as a company logo. A fill graphic can be different for every copy of a form in your file because it is filled in Fill View. Create a graphic object instead if you want the same graphic to appear in every copy of the form. To create a fill graphic object: 1 2 Click the Fill Graphic tool in the drawing toolbar. Draw the fill graphic object. To create a square, hold down the Shift key as you draw. Designing a Form 6-15 Defining Objects Defining Objects This section describes the options in the Object Definition dialog box and how they affect a selected object. The dialog box varies according to the selected object and form language. Each definable object is described in this section in the order it appears in the drawing toolbar. When you define an object you can: · Give it a unique name that is useful when sorting or searching records, arranging tab order, or defining calculations. · Provide filling options such as a list of possible entries and help messages that appear in Fill View. [. . . ] OmniForm does not allow the same Option Group name to be assigned to different object types. 10-10 Technical Information Error Messages Calculation Error: Cannot resolve circular references. This message appears if two or more fields are logically connected in a closed loop so that no value can be returned. For example, suppose you selected the field Cost1 and created this calculation for it: Sum([Cost1];[Cost2]) A circular reference error message would appear because the selected field cannot be involved in returning its own sum. Correct the field name or enter another in the expression for [field name]. [. . . ]