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Standard and User Defined forms

Standard forms are provided with the Agris  Software and are occasionally updated as part of the ongoing update and enhancement process for each individual package. Forms that are designed and maintained by Greenstone are called standard forms. Those that are designed and maintained by you are called user-defined forms.

Parameters

Each form is defined to include records that contain certain selected ranges of data from a specific file. The form parameters determine which records to include when extracting and sorting the data for a form. These parameters on any standard or user-defined form may be temporarily overridden when printing the specific form.

If the form does not yet exist, you will have to design (create) a new form. If you need to make permanent changes to an existing user-defined form, choose the view/edit option. Use the delete option to remove an unwanted user-defined form. You may neither change nor delete a standard form. A standard form may be a source for a new user-defined form, which may be changed.

If you are unfamiliar with the forms in the listing, you may review the forms you have on file or simply print one to review. If you select a form at random, you may change a few parameters to decrease the size of the form. The original form will remain unchanged and will still be there when you are finished with designing a user-defined form.

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