Duplicating forms

Classic Servoy
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In my house-style the navigation buttons are placed on top of (all) the forms.
Since, in this way, I can’t make use of the Navagation Toolbars Feature I have to reproduce my forms like in FMP.
Can I somehow duplicate forms, or do I have to make new forms and paste the contents of the master form to the new ones?
Also isn’t it possible to rename a form?

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Currently navigation toolbar can only be placed vertically.
(added horizontal placement to requested features)

Forms can’t be duplicated, so you have to copy paste your elements to new forms. (duplicate forms is added to requested features)

You can rename forms by going into designer, and edit the “name” property. (make sure no objects are selected)

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Currently you can’t duplicate forms, this is a planned feature for the future though. You can rename a form in the form properties.

You could make your navigation panel on one form and place it inside a tabpanel on all forms you need it. Here is how:

  1. Create a form that contains your navigation, base it on an empty table
  2. make sure it has exactly the size of your navigation form size and set border to empty, controller to none
  3. create a relation from the form you want to display the navpanel on to the navigation form
  4. place a tabpanel that shows the related navigation form. set its taborientation to HIDE and border to empty

We are considering to support ‘relationless’ tabpanels to make this easier in the future.

4

jaleman:
We are considering to support ‘relationless’ tabpanels to make this easier in the future.

Good idea: this would make developing even faster…

5

maarten wrote:

(added horizontal placement to requested features)

Is there any news about this topic/issue??

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Any news about duplicating forms??.. I think it would be a greatly appreciated feature.

bye

7

duplicate forms is availeble in release 1.2 rc4