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To create a form guide

You use Guide Builder in Designer ES to create and edit form guides. Guide Builder allows you to modify all aspects of how your form guide is displayed.

The first step in creating a form guide is to open an existing form design or create a form design in Designer ES.

Note:

If the form design contains a paper forms barcode, you must modify the barcode script to check for the proper host.

When you open Guide Builder, it creates a new form guide for your form. By default, the form guide includes a section and a panel.

Scripting in form guides

Form guides support a limited set of the scripting properties and methods that are available in Designer ES. Form guides support the same properties and methods as HTML forms. Guide Builder displays a message if your form guide includes unsupported properties and methods, and displays information about scripting errors when you preview a form guide.

For more information about which properties and methods are supported in form guides, see Summary of supported properties, methods, and events.

Data binding in form guides

Follow these guidelines when using data binding with objects in a form guide:

•	Use simple binding against the data value. Complex binding against other properties is not supported.

•	Use explicit binding. If a subform has normal binding, the name of the subform must appear in the data.

•	Bind subforms that flow content to XML elements.

1.	In Designer ES, select Tools > Create Or Edit Form Guide.

2.	If Guide Builder is in simplified view, click Show Properties.

3.	Add sections and panels as required to create the guide structure. (See Creating the form guide hierarchy.)

4.	Select the form guide layout and set the guide properties. (See Setting the form guide layout and properties.)

5.	Set panel properties and any display rules or answer-based navigation. (See Setting panel layouts, properties, and conditional navigation.)

6.	Add form objects and text to panels and set their properties. (See Adding and editing form objects and text.)

7.	Customize the appearance of the form guide, including text formatting and background colors. (See Customizing the appearance.)

8.	Preview a panel layout in real time in the right pane or preview the form guide in a browser. You may need to preview the form guide and make changes in Guide Builder several times. (See Previewing a form guide.)

9.	Apply the changes to the form guide or save the changes directly to the form design in Designer ES. (See Applying changes to a form guide.)

See also 

About the Object Scripting Reference

About binding fields to a data source

To create a form guide