User manual NUANCE OMNIFORM 4

[. . . ] OmniForm User's Manual CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95032-3321 USA Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 München, Germany Caere UK Information Centre 3 Catherine Place Westminster, London SW1E 6DX Centre d'informations Caere 72, rue Baratte-Cholet 94100 Saint-Maur, France Please Note In order to use this application, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, edit boxes, and so on. OmniForm Version 4. 0 for Windows 95, 98 and NT Copyright© 1999 by Caere Corporation. CAERE, Logical Form Recognition, and OmniForm are registered trademarks of Caere Corporation. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. [. . . ] The name of the selected file appears in the File name text box. 10 Click Next>. 11 Specify the columns (or fields) that you want to use in your drop-down list. Also, select the field that you want to appear first in your drop-down list. You can have a maximum of 10 columns displayed in your drop-down list. · Select the columns in the Available columns list and click the right-arrow button. This is useful if you want more information to appear in the drop-down list. · In the Columns to enter text box, choose the field you want to appear first in the drop-down list. The information you choose from this column is what appears first in the field in fill view. 13 Click OK to apply your settings and close the dialog box. 116 Chapter 5 Setting up a Form for Automated Data Entry Create an AutoFill List From an ODBC Source You can create an AutoFill list from an ODBC source and use the information for your current field. To create an AutoFill list from an ODBC source: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Open a form and select a field where you want to create an AutoFill list using information from an ODBC source. Select Create or edit the AutoFill of the current field and click Next>. Select ODBC Database to use information from a database (such as, dBASE or Microsoft Access) and click Next>. Specify the data source and table in the following dialog box. 8 If you have not set up your data source previously, click Administrator. . . For more information about these dialog boxes, please see your specific database documentation. Advanced Features 117 Setting up a Form for Automated Data Entry · Select the data source you will be using from the Data Source drop-down list. · Select a Table you would like to use from the Table drop-down list. A dialog box similar to the one below appears. 10 Specify the columns (or fields) that you want to use in the dropdown list. Also, select the field that you want to appear first in the drop-down list. You can have a maximum of 10 columns displayed in your drop-down list. · Select the columns in the Available columns list and click the right-arrow button. · In the Columns to enter text box, choose the field you want to appear first in the drop-down list. The information you choose from this column is what appears first in the field in fill view. 12 Click OK to apply your settings and close the dialog box. 118 Chapter 5 Setting up a Form for Automated Data Entry Automatically Fill Fields on a Form You can automatically fill fields on your form with AutoFill lists from a variety of sources. [. . . ] parenthesis In OmniForm, an element used to enclose all elements of a function. Parentheses look like this: ( ) PCX A graphic file format produced by some scanners. point A typographic unit of measurement equal to 1/72 inch, measured vertically. The default prefill character is a hyphen (-), often used in phone numbers. [. . . ]