Miscellaneous Options

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There are a few miscellaneous options that can be set to make your ADLForms experience more pleasurable. They are:

 

Option

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Allow This User to Run Auto-updates

Settings

Office computer systems and networks can be setup and maintained in many different ways. In many cases all software must be installed by a network administrator or the software will not install correctly and errors will occur.

 

Where it is necessary for a network administrator to install software this option should be ticked (Default is un-ticked).

 

Automatically Change Pages at End of Page

Settings

By default ADLForms will automatically move to the next page as soon as you press <Enter> or <TAB> on the last field of a page, negating the need to click the <Next Page> button to move to the next page.

 

By un-ticking this option you are forced to always click the <Next Page> button to move to the next page of a form.

 

Colour Schemes

Settings

You are able to select from two different colour schemes for how ADLForms will look. More colour schemes may be added later. By selecting a scheme the screen colours will change immediately, but you have to <Save> before the change is permanent.

 

Company Name Insert Format

Settings

Your business name can be displayed and printed in two different ways on all forms. They are 'Company & Trading Name' (Default) and 'Trading Name Only'.

 

Although it is good business practice to print the full business name on all your forms, some agents wish to only print their Trading Name only on forms.

 

By setting this option it will apply to all forms.

 

Forms to Insert Postal Address Into

Postal Address & Extra Details

It is possible to nominate which forms have your postal address inserted into. By default your street is inserted into all forms. If you wish a form to have your postal address inserted into it tick the box beside the form name. If you want all forms to have the postal address inserted into them tick the 'Select All' check box.

 

Prompt to Add to Editable Lists

Settings

In many forms there are editable combo boxes, to which you can add your own values which will then appear as values within the drop-down combo box in future.

 

By default every time you type a value that is not in the list you will be prompted as to whether you wish to add the new value to the list for future use.

 

To have new values automatically added to the list for future use, without prompting, un-tick this option.

 

Run Auto-updates Without Prompting This User

Settings

If your computer does not required special permissions to install software, this box can be ticked to have updates installed automatically without user intervention (Default is un-ticked)

 

System Data Folder

Settings

This setting allows all users to access the one registration file and common forms definitions and lists. This setting should only be changed from the default C: Drive by an experienced network administrator or technician. Setting this option incorrectly can make ADLForms to operate incorrectly.

 

Update Similar Fields Only When Blank

Settings

Within some forms the same information may appear more than once. In such cases ADLForms will automatically place the information in all other relevant fields within the form when you type into the first occurrence of one of the 'linked' fields.

 

By default this will occur regardless of whether there is information in the 'linked' fields or not.

 

By ticking this option the information will only be automatically transferred to the 'linked' field when the linked field is empty.

 

 

Miscellaneous Options Setup:

 

1.

Open ADLForms

 

2.

Click on <Options> (Previously <Setup Options>)

 

3.

Set preferences as required

 

4.

Click on  <Save>

 

5.

Click on the <Exit> button to take you back to the 'Main Menu'