Creating a purchase order form that has a flowable layout

In this tutorial, you learn how to change a form’s fixed layout to a flowable layout by using subforms so that the form displays all the orders that one of your clients requested. You will also learn how to merge a form with data.

Start this tutorial with the form created in the Creating a purchase order form tutorial. You will rework the form to have a flowable layout. A flowable layout means that the form will adjust to accommodate data so that it displays all the orders that one of your clients requested.

The form design in this tutorial presents information from a data source. The resulting form is a non-interactive form that you can print or store electronically.

• About creating a purchase order form that has a flowable layout
• Opening the purchase order form
• Enhancing the format of the form
• Organizing the form
• Formatting the footer
• Setting the table to dynamically grow
• Fixing the calculation for the Total field
• Setting the fields to read-only
• Connecting to a data source
• Binding the data to fields and table cells
• Specifying a data file
• What’s next?

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