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Overview

The Projects area shows the documents in this project. Active (editable) documents may be less than this, especially for projects with a large number of documents. Projects is where documents are added, deleted and edited.

Load and Close Documents (minimum active forms improves response times for the program)

The green buttons above the Project area open and close documents.

Open views button adds the document to the active list and opens the document titles (form) then (data) left in the title bar.

Close views button removes the document from the active list and from titles.

Where you have a project with a number of documents, closing the ones not being worked on improves performance (which degrades if a large number of forms are all active).

You can also close the (data) and (form) views on the active screen.

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Version 8.11 of this program introduced multiple rules on delivery tags, forcing a change in file format. Incompatibility between formats (version 8.10 FTForm Plus and earlier trying to Open Version 8.11 and later files) produces these errors:





Save and Save As produce this dialogue box for earlier files being processed with Version 8.11 and up  FTForm Plus versions:

This message is produced only if versions differ AND Preferences, Options has Always suggest target version ... ticked.




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Add a New Document

 

To define a new document see HERE.


The other way to generate a new Document is to copy and paste an existing one.

 
This is covered HERE.

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Select Document

The main screen shows as many document titles as will fit. Each document has two titles, (form) and (data). One of the titles will be Bold - Data Entry Forms-Dev: Manual Invoice (form) indicating what is shown on the main screen.




The right of the titles bar has an Active files buttom which shows a list of active files.

Chose one to open it at the left of the title bar (the right-most title drops away).

This is the result, with the Credit (form) brought to view.

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Document Evaluation Order

Data is compared to document definition in Evaluation Order, which is the sequence in which the document identification rules are checked against incoming files to determine which documents exist. Evaluation order is irrelevant for Questionnaire document.


See how to change Evaluation Order HERE.

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Bins and NCR Paper for a  Document

Unusually, some documents may require bin selection settings, normally checks (cheques) where the first page is perforated check paper from a special bin and overflow plain white page(s) are from the default bin.  This saves wasting check stock and particularly accounting for VOID checks. 



From the (form) view, select Page Properties.
  


Modify required bins for the printer(s) that are to be used in production and and OK.  This shows a "typical" Check (Cheque) production run with perforated check stock in the manual bin.


These are the selections for the above check print senario:

PCL6 Printer: specific check printer

Use separate bins for first page only is ticked

PCL6 where the manual feed tray is selected


This same screen may be used to duplex print documents and to configure output bins.


Warning: Do NOT use the bottom panels unless you are printing checks (cheques) or have some special features of stationary that requires a separate bin for Page 1 (like pre-printed color logo on Page 1 with continuation pages on plain white).











Another uncommon use for bins is to form multi-part "NCR Paper" pages (available from Version 8-21) where typically each sheet is from a specified bin (1st bin White, 2nd bin Yellow and 3rd bin Blue), collated by page, output delivered to one bin.  Chose the first page input bin from the above screen (top group of selections, NOT the bottom set which are for check printing), then select Additional Copies ... (lower right) which opens this for additional copies:


This screen collects the input bin for each additional copy:




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