Form menu
In QMF, the Form menu becomes available when a form is the active object in the editor.
The following menu commands are available:
- Data Source Object
- Opens the Data Source Object dialog where you can specify the data source object that will be associated with the form. The data source object for a form is the object that is run to obtain the query results that are formatted into a report.
- Convert to Visual Report
- Converts the active form into a visual report. The generated visual report opens in a new window.
- Convert to HTML
- Opens the Convert to HTML dialog, which contains
the following options:
- Specify which tags will be added to the form in The following tags will be added to the form list box.
- Check the Include tabular data as HTML table check box to insert any table data into a HTML formatted table.
- Check the Adjust additional form values for HTML table tags check box to have the application automatically adjust form values for HTML formatting.
- Check the Save as user defaults check box to save the current settings and selections as user defaults.
- Click the User Defaults button to reset to user defaults.
- Click the Product Defaults button to reset to product defaults.
- Click the Clear Values button to clear all selected values from the Value column of the list box.
- Set Data Source
- Select a data source (from a list of available data sources in your repository) where you want the active query to run. The Set Data Source dialog opens.
- Set User Information
- Opens the Set User Information dialog where you specify the user ID and password that QMF will use to connect to the data source.
- Set Font
- Opens the Font dialog where you can change the display font attributes of the current classic report in the active window.