Forms and Reports

Designing Visually Effective Applications

Understanding the Process 

Building the user interface elements

 Gathering user feedback

Creating an Effective Form 

Understanding forms

What is a module?

What are forms, blocks, items, regions, and frames?

What are windows and canvases?.

Guidelines for building forms 

Using object libraries

Understanding basic design principles 

Adding color 

Creating canvases 

Creating windows

Creating regions 

Adding items to blocks 

Designing messages

Implementing online help 

Building effective menus

Creating an Effective Report

Understanding Reports

Using Templates in Report Builder

Understanding Layout Objects

Controlling Layout Objects in Report Builder

Using anchors

Using the Print Object On and Base Printing On properties 

Understanding Horizontal and Vertical Elasticity 

Using the Page Break Before and After property

Using the Page Protect property

Using the Keep with Anchoring Object property 

Creating an Effective Display

Choosing the Right Graph