6.1 The Main Form Element
The settings in the main Form element on top of the Elements panel control many features regarding the entire form. In this element’s Element Properties you can set things like date formats, page margins, language for spellcheck, description formula, states of completion, email notifications etc.
This page explains the options in the Properties tabs Settings, Rules, Styling and PDF. The many options on the Other tab is explained in Designing: 6.1.1 The main Form element’s Other tab.
Element Properties
Settings
Perhaps the most important setting here is the Description Formula field. You can read about this in Designing: 6.4 Description Formula.
Most of the properties in this tab concerns the display of date and time elements. The settings here apply to all date and time elements throughout the form. You can also set date and time options on each individual date and time element. See Designing: 4.3 Date and Time for a description of the individual settings. Note that the start day of the week for date calendars can only be set here on the form element, not on the individual data and time elements.
Tip: You should probably change the Form Element ID at the bottom of this tab if you have copied the form from somewhere else. It usually has the form folder_form_name.
Rules
This is where you set rules that involve a IF… THEN logic, often used to hide or show specific parts of a form. Read more about rules in Designing: 5.1 Rules (branching/skip formulas).
Styling
The three top settings concern the look of the form’s “card” in the Zegeba app. Set the color of the text and the background of its card (default is black text on white background, as the middle form in the picture below). These colors will be used both in the Forms section and the Tasks section of the app.
Here you can specify various settings regarding the print output to a PDF file, such as page size and margins and what to include and exclude from print. If a header or footer won’t show on the PDF, try enlarging the margin size on the top or the bottom. In the picture above the left and right margins are set to 50px and the top and bottom margins are 100px. The property regarding font conversion is explained in Designing: 4.2.3 Styling tab.
In addition there are some PDF settings for the individual page elements. See section Designing: 4.2.4 PDF tab.
See the following page Designing: 6.1.1 The main Form element’s Other tab about all the options in the Other tab.
