Generate Forms on Designer

Question

Hi, Everybody
I’m new in designer
I finished my first ERD and convert it to physical tables and
indexes By (database design transformer) that’s OK , and when I
entered Design Editor I found those tables Ok ,
My problem: I want Designer to generate forms for this tables ,
I entered Navigator Window then I choosed Modules tab and then
Reusable Module Components and I lunched it Ok to select all
items to be displayed BUT I COUNDN’T FIND ANY FORMS WAS
GENERATED
HOW CAN I GENERATE FORMS ?
By the way: I don’t want to generate any Functions in designer,
I have developer2000 on my machine , and I use Designer 6I Ver
6.5.4
THANKS

Answer 1

It is difficult from your question to understand exactly what you
have done. I will attempt to outline the general process. All the
steps listed will be done from the Design Editor.
1. Assuming you have your data model defined in Designer
including primary keys, foreign keys, domains etc.
2. Use the server generator to create you data model in your
target database
3. Create a module for each form
4. Create a module component for each block you want to generate
(note for more advanced generation you may have sub module
components)
5. For each of the module components you need to define the
tables the block is based on and the items required. Each item
will either be bound to a column or be un-bound, i.e. non db item
6. The next step requires a reasonable degree of knowledge, I
suggest you read the help or a good Designer book. To get the
layout and functionality you require you need to use a
combination of the layout properties, preferences, templates,
application logic and layout tab editor settings.
7. Once you have done this you run the forms generator for your
module and unless you get generation errors you will end up with
a .fmb. (Make sure that the version of Forms you have is
compatible with the version of Designer)
8. You should expect to repeat steps 6 and 7 a number of times to
get the form you want.
I hope this helps
Regards
Mark