Breaking up single Region into Multiple Regions

Question

Hi,
I've a single region (a form) on a page and it has 30 fields and it does not look that great.
So just from the UI perspective, I want to break up this 1 large region into smaller 3 regions. Is it possible?
All the data comes from and goes into one table, so I want to change the UI and not the backend.
Thanks for the help.
-Hozy

Answer 1

Well think about it - why can't you do this? There isn't a reason :-) There isn't anything particularly special about the form region in and of itself - the create form region wizard just a handy way to auto-generate your CRUD processes and buttons.
Keep your original form region and create your additional regions as HTML regions (i.e. blank regions). When you redistribute your page items, they are still linked together, so to speak. You can still use the 'create' buttons etc from the original region (in fact, you can also move the controls around too if you like).
As for the stop/start page item, all it really does is close off the html table and opens up a new one below - the effect of which is that any page items below are laid out without reference to the structure above it. I find it particularly useful if you have, say, a wide text area item or another item with a big label and then have maybe two or three smaller page items underneath - in normal circumstances, the little items would end up being horribly spread across the page, whereas with the stop/start item, they are laid out more effectively.
Why not have a go at using the 'Drag and Drop' function - it becomes more clearer that way. Don't be afraid to experiment!