Form

A GUI screen layout used to access, add, change, and view records in a specific Service Manager table, or used as part of the user interaction in a Service Manager application.

A form is the data entry mask Service Manager uses to display data. It serves as the interface between the user and the table. A form can be associated with only one Service Manager table; however, a table may have many associated forms.

Not all forms refer to specific tables. For example, the login screen is displayed using a form that does not refer to any table and is only used for authentication.

Typically, the primary form associated with a table carries the same name as the table. For example, if you use Database Manager to open the location file while running a GUI client, you access the location table using the form location.g. Service Manager automatically determines that you are running a GUI client and provides the .g version of the location form, if one is available. However, if you search for forms named location, Service Manager presents a list of several associated forms for your further selection. All these forms work with the location table, but only one is named location.

You can create and modify forms with the Service Manager Forms Designer (FD) utility, and add or edit rules for processing data automatically with the Service Manager Format Control (FC) utility.

Service Manager stores form records in the format table.