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Re: Display view

Ted Fitch — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:35:23 GMT

Hi,

It looks like you are not using any tables in the design, you have laid out everything without tables and the width's of the text boxes etc are a fixed length.

You should take a loook at this article for some design tips: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011227811033.aspx

If you use layout tables this will help a lot.

Typically if you use layout tables when you add the control to the table (text box, drop down etc) you let the column width of the cell in the table control the size of the text box, drop down etc (width is = 100% rather than a fixed width). This should help with changing the overall width of the form so it takes up more space.

We do offer an InfoPath detailing service (http://www.qdabra.com/en/consulting/detailingService.aspx) you might want to consider getting some formal advice from us. I see a lot of things in the schema of your form that are going to cause you problems later - for example using the name convention for your fields like you have (Field1, Field2) is going to cause you big headaches down the road when you try to figure out what data those fields are holding.

Hope that helps, let me know if you want to talk more about our detailing service and what you get with it.

Ted

Re: Display view

anbrinker — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:33:46 GMT

Sorry about that...here it is in .xsn.

Thanks again

Re: Display view

Ted Fitch — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:34:51 GMT

Hi Amanda, this is an XML for the form. Can you attach the XSN (template)?

Thanks

Re: Display view

anbrinker — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:08:38 GMT

Thanks so much for your response! I am ok with how it prints, I am just having issues with how it appears on the screen for the user of the form...it is all squished to the left of the screen. I have attached it for your reference.

Thanks again!

Amanda

Re: Display view

Ted Fitch — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:19:05 GMT

Hi,

Getting your InfoPath form to look nice for printing can be challenging. Often people create a specific read only "print" view that uses expression boxes to display the data rather than the text box, dropdown controls etc, this looks nicer printed.

If you attach your template maybe I can take a look, without more information it's hard to know why your form is only filling half the screen

Ted

Display view

anbrinker — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:38:40 GMT

Why does the form that I created only fill half of the screen? How can I make the form fill the entire screen for the user? When it is printed if fills the entire 8.5x11"...