Mi-Forms How To

Examples that show how to design or script forms to perform tasks

Obscuring portions of a form from export
It is sometimes useful to obscure some amount of a form from export. For instance, if you have a series of hotspots that allow the user to change pen drawin...
Tue, 4 Nov, 2014 at 9:31 AM
Toggling inking mode of all inkedits on a form
Sometimes a user may wish to toggle the inking mode (ink vs. keyboard) of all inkedits on a form at a single time. To do so, you may take advantage of the I...
Tue, 4 Nov, 2014 at 9:41 AM
Mailing a PDF datapath from a local Outlook Application
In this example, we are going to incorporate logic that takes a PDF that is generated as a datapath export and email it through the local Microsoft Outlook ...
Fri, 19 Sep, 2014 at 4:28 PM
How to retrieve User Groups
Group membership status is obtained from the Mi-Forms Server so the form will need to obtain this information from the Server. There are two methods for ...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 1:18 PM
Improving performance when there are many value updates
There are times when you may find that you have large amounts of data that you need to load into form fields for display.  For example, if you are populatin...
Mon, 24 Nov, 2014 at 8:40 AM
How and where do I see the time a field was filled and what time the transfer to the server occurred?
Each field has a data object containing an audit trail for the field showing when it was filled. See the example forms that shipped with your installat...
Thu, 11 Dec, 2014 at 4:49 PM
Setting Field Date in Javascript for Web Forms
The DatePicker example included in Mi-Forms Designer installer offers a good solution in working with dates in VB. However, there is a growing need to accom...
Wed, 17 Dec, 2014 at 8:26 AM
Advanced CText Templates
Text Fields are powerful designer tools to ensure that data entered into a form is the format as needed. To highlight this behavior, we refer to them as &qu...
Tue, 27 Jan, 2015 at 12:25 PM
Delay Server Processing
When a session is uploaded to the Mi-Forms Server, it is placed into an _Incoming queue, waiting to be processed. To delay processing, use the WaitT...
Tue, 27 Jan, 2015 at 12:25 PM
How do I delete a form template?
When the Mi-Forms Client is used as a standalone Windows application, we do not allow users to delete form templates. This is primarily to prevent accident...
Tue, 27 Jan, 2015 at 12:22 PM