Clean up an A5 Web Form

[ab042]

I'm trying to duplicate a form that another peson created for a web site. I'm trying to use A5.

The way it looks is very important to the client and I'm new to the A5 stuff.

Could someone view the attach screen shot of a small WEB form thats attached and offer suggestions on how I can duplicate it without a lot of extra coding in A5v7 WEB.

The current A5 component I created has everything in a column down the page and it doesn't look as nice.

Thanks

[Selwyn Rabins]

this can be quite easily done.
the trick is using 'free form layout'.
for example, you will see that firstname and lastname are in the same row.

you do this by setting the 'hidden' property for the lastname column to true.
then setting firstname to freeform layout. then when you edit the freeform layout for 'firstname', you add the control for lastname.

[ab042]

What a LIFE saver. That was so easy. THANK YOU. THANK YOU :)

Since that was so easy. Is it possilbe to divide the stuff into different sections on the screen without a lot of coding?

[FONT="Fixedsys"]For Example:
Bill To:                                     Ship To:
Mr. John Doe                                 Cindy Smith
123 Main Street                              987 Central
New York, NY 12345                           Boston, MA 98765

Detail here
xx/xx  product   description                              amount
xx/xx  product   description                              amount[/FONT]

THANKS AGAIN

[Lenny Forziati]

If you're looking for a nicely formatted invoice, you may want to consider using a PDF report. Take a look at the Print Invoice link on Example 3.1 in the Web Applications Demo sample app.

What a LIFE saver. That was so easy. THANK YOU. THANK YOU :)

Since that was so easy. Is it possilbe to divide the stuff into different sections on the screen without a lot of coding?

[FONT="Fixedsys"]For Example:
Bill To:                                     Ship To:
Mr. John Doe                                 Cindy Smith
123 Main Street                              987 Central
New York, NY 12345                           Boston, MA 98765

Detail here
xx/xx  product   description                              amount
xx/xx  product   description                              amount[/FONT]

THANKS AGAIN

[Steve Workings]

Lenny's right about the formatting for a report. If you want to format it like you show for the web page, you'll find that it's easiest to create a table in your freeform builder first, then fill the cells as needed.

[rleunis]

tempreport.pdf' cannot be created

When I try creating an invoice via the link Lenny supplied ( On WAS server at AlphaSoftware) I get:

500 Internal Server Error
Script Error
Error:File 'C:\A5Webroot\session_folders\25ad1597f02c4ee0b05059d21e208f8e\\tempreport.pdf' cannot be created.


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Alpha Five/7.0 Build/3871-2062 at WEBAPPSERVER2 Port 80

[Selwyn Rabins]

It does not sound like the PDF printer got properly installed when you installed Alpha Five.

Look in the Printers folder (click Start/Printers). Do you see "Alpha Five Printer"? If not try reinstalling AlphaFive. Saving reports to PDF will not work if you don't have the Alpha Five Printer listed. It should be installed automatically when Alpha Five is installed.

[rleunis]

PDF Printer

Hi,

I re installed A5V7 and it works from my local installation.

But then I tried to go into the http://was.alphasoftware.com/dbfsamplesv7/login.a5w (AlphaSoftware WAS ) and there it does not let me login there anymore....

[rleunis]

And 5 minutes later I can login, but still get:

When using Alpha's WAS Server:

http://was.alphasoftware.com/dbfsamp...eNumber=000001


500 Internal Server Error
Script Error
Error:File 'C:\A5Webroot\session_folders\25ad1597f02c4ee0b05059d21e208f8e\\tempreport.pdf' cannot be created.


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Alpha Five/7.0 Build/3871-2062 at WEBAPPSERVER2 Port 80

[Phil Rolf]

I just tried Lennys link to the demo and got the same error as Ron when I clicked to print the invoice. The Alpha Five Printer is on my list of printers.

[Lenny Forziati]

The demo server is now working properly.

I just tried Lennys link to the demo and got the same error as Ron when I clicked to print the invoice. The Alpha Five Printer is on my list of printers.

[Wanda Tucker]

Selwyn, Lenny, Steve,
You never cease to amaze me...this works like a charm and solves several issues that I have...I can forget trying to get the curser to go from the last field in one Tab Pane to the next, and I can forget trying to create two or more columns on a grid.

I was afraid of trying the Free Form Layout, but no more! (Some of us just need a little extra prodding to try what they think may be code.) Now, without coding, I know how to use Free Form Layout and a table and create the look that I want :) Thank you, thank you, thank you :)))

Happy Camper in flooding California,
Wanda

[Wanda Tucker]

Column widths - how do I set them?

Okay, I'm using a table with 4 columns in my free form layout. I can get the columns to change sizes in the HTML editor but it doesn't make a difference when I click on Live Preview.

How can I set the column widths in free form layout?

Thank you,
Wanda

[Rich Hartnett]

I get a blank page when I try to see the Print Invoice demo.

http://was.alphasoftware.com/session...t.pdf?21561484

[Rich Hartnett]

Oh I see what the problem is. I was trying to view the demo on my home computer, but my version of A5, v7 is installed on my work computer, therefore the A5 PDF print driver did not exist on home computer. When I viewed it on my work computer it came out very clean and nice.

This However this brings up a second question:

How could a customer who is viewing this Invoice from the internet print it without having the actual A5 software installed on his machine?

(Is there a way to provide just the print drivers to a customer for that very purpose, without them having to buy a A5 license?)