Work with forms

The term form is used to refer to the screen on which a STRUMIS record is displayed. Examples are the Customer form, the Purchase Order form and the Production Workstation form. The illustration below shows you what a simple form looks like. It is the Customer - Details form.

Forms have core features that are common throughout the system. They are fields, grids and buttons.

Fields

You will find text, numeric, date, drop-down list and check box type fields in the STRUMIS system. They are frequently displayed on tabs or in smart filters (similar to tabs). Fields, tabs and smart filters are described on a case-by-case basis throughout this documentation.

Grids

Many STRUMIS forms contain grids with sophisticated control mechanisms.

See Work with grids.

Buttons

On each form, you will find one or more of the buttons in the following table:

Button	Description
Actions	Lists the various operations that you can do to the record.
Grid Options	See Work with grids
Save	Saves the record.
Save As New	If you are creating more than one record of the same type with similar details, use the Save As New button. When you have completed and saved the first record, you can simply change the name and click Save As New to save the same details under the new name.
Delete	Deletes the record from the database. You cannot retrieve a record when it has been deleted.
Close	Closes the record.