Option: Nested Form

Nested Form component allows user to embed form into another form.

Adding component:

• Adding options to the form

Component properties:

• Components Basic Properties

• This component has the following specific properties:

• Form (1) that will be nested in current one.

• Parameters (2) - by default nested form has "ID" parameter to get the same source record ID as parent form. User can change it (to pass an ID of some other record to be used as the data source by the nested form) and add other parameters if needed. This field is shown only after form has been selected.

• Mode (3) - Edit, View (like on generic forms) or Inherit (nested from will get the same mode as parent).

• Display Custom Buttons (4) - if check, custom buttons configured for nested form will be added to parent form buttons area. Note: custom buttons inserted in nested form sections will be shown independently on this checkbox state.

• Exclude From Save (5) - fields that were changed in the nested form, will not be saved when saving parent form.

Validation rules:

• This component has no validation rules

Events: Form Input Events

Conditional styles:

• Form components conditional styling

• This component has following conditional styles available:

  • hide

  • show

  • clear

• Nested forms don't support paging. When the nested form is Multi Page Form it is rendered as a single page form with data from all pages displayed on the form.

• Nested forms can't have multiple levels of inheritance. User can set up forms nested in several levels, but the parent form will only display the first level nested forms.