Submitted by mknjlaw on 2010/07/13 00:15
Hi,
 
I am trying to create forms to use as child items for the psychological principles I am inserting as items in the Psychological Principles Grid.
 
Question # 1. Should I create the bibliography grid first with the fields and then create the form to be used to input records in the bibliography grid?
Question # 2. Using the forms manager I was able to create the bibliography form without first creating the grid to which it is related. I then when to the fields manager and created fields for the form but they did not appear in the drop down in the Form Manager to insert fields into the grid. Moreover I was not able to drag and drop fields from fields manager to forms manager. I saw a then dark line appear in the forms manager where new fields were supposed to be dropped put when I lifted up for the mouse nothing happened.
After I invoke the form how do I get it to appear in order to fill them out.
Since I am going to be using the same values from one form to another how do I get form two to populate the values from form #1.
I want to create an authors grid form and an artcile grid form. How do I insert an authors drop down field in the article grid form?
 
Many thanks for you help and patience
 
 

Comments

Hi,
 
I'll do my best to answer your questions, but I'm not exactly sure what you want to achieve...
 
>I am trying to create forms to use as child items for the psychological principles I am inserting as items in the Psychological Principles Grid.
Questions:
  1. items in the Principles grid represent Principles, right ?
  2. For each principle, you want to add sub-items ?
  3. These sub-items are ? (bibliography? .. I'm guessing here)
>Question # 1. Should I create the bibliography grid first with the fields and then create the form to be used to input records in the bibliography grid?
You can create the bibliography grid, but you don't need to. You must however create the required fields. You can then create a form to edit/add bibliography info
 
>Question # 2. Using the forms manager I was able to create the bibliography form without first creating the grid to which it is related.
Strictly speaking, forms and grids are not related. They are 2 complementary input methods (grid: horizontal fields, forms: vertical fields). Both can display item info.
 
>Moreover I was not able to drag and drop fields from fields manager to forms manager.
This is probably true. Drag-drop between these two UI forms is not enabled. Select the field to add from the Form manager
 
>After I invoke the form how do I get it to appear in order to fill them out.
Forms are shown in the Properties pane (F4)
 
> Since I am going to be using the same values from one form to another how do I get form two to populate the values from form #1.
Humm... Forms do not contain values. They display fields values. Using smart fields, you can fields with pop-up value list coming from the list of items in another grid
 
>I want to create an authors grid form and an article grid form. How do I insert an authors drop down field in the article grid form?
IQ is not a relational database, but if you've got an authors grid, you can set a smart field, named Author, so that the pop-up list comes from the authors grid. Is that what you want ? Keep in mind that this just helps you in filling the Author field, and changes to items in the authors grid are reflected in the pop-up list, but existing author entries remain unchanged.
 
HTH