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XUY8G‖General

To access this command...

AkBsv‖Open context menu of a selected form element - choose Form Properties - General tab.

CPHGz‖Open Form Design toolbar, click Form Properties icon - General tab.


68rVo‖A form is a text document or spreadsheet with different form controls. If you create a form for a Web page, the user can enter data into it to send over the Internet. The data from the form controls of a form is transmitted to a server by specifying a URL and can be processed on the server.

S6oT3‖Name

GMJm3‖Specifies a name for the form. This name is used to identify the form in the Form Navigator.

RStFA‖URL

58FDC‖Specifies the URL to which the data of the completed form is to be transmitted.

PaeRB‖Frame

J5x3L‖Defines the target frame in which the loaded URL is to appear.

2CRNQ‖If you click the field, you can select an option from the list that specifies into which frame the next document should be loaded. The following possibilities exist:

pzvw7‖Entry

beNv5‖Meaning

_blank

K53An‖The next document is created in a new empty frame.

_parent

CwpVW‖The next document is created in a parent frame. If no parent exists, the document is created in the same frame.

_self

qq8jm‖The next document is created in the same frame.

_top

oCgYA‖The next document is created in a top-level window, that is, in the highest frame of the hierarchy; if the current frame is already a top window, the document is created in the current frame.


RETmx‖Type of submission

CBWKj‖Specifies the method to transfer the completed form information.

CwT2d‖Using the "Get" method, the data of every control is transmitted as an environment variable. They are appended to the URL in the form "?Control1=Content1&Control2=Content2&..."; the character string is analyzed by a program on the recipient's server.

E55dQ‖Using the "Post" method, a document is created from the content of the form that is sent to the specified URL.

EhnDZ‖Submission encoding

HzL3W‖Specifies the type for encoding the data transfer.

U9XGk‖Data transfer of control information

euwpq‖When sending a form, all controls available in LibreOfficeDev are taken into consideration. The name of the control and the corresponding value, if available, are transmitted.

kDoEi‖Which values are transmitted in each case depends on the respective control. For text fields, the visible entries are transmitted; for list boxes, the selected entries are transmitted; for check boxes and option fields, the associated reference values are transmitted if these fields were activated.

MxKP2‖How this information is transmitted depends on the selected transfer method (Get or Post) and the coding (URL or Multipart). If the Get method and URL encoding are selected, for example, value pairs in the form <Name>=<Value> are sent.

haYMX‖In addition to the controls that are recognized in HTML, LibreOfficeDev offers other controls. It should be noted that, for fields with a specific numerical format, the visible values are not transmitted but rather fixed default formats. The following table shows how the data of the LibreOfficeDev-specific controls is transmitted:

eDLet‖Control

kZ6JA‖Value Pair

QnTLr‖Numeric field, currency field

FWUB9‖A decimal separator is always displayed as a period.

vKhpL‖Date field

WULKk‖The date format is sent in a fixed format (MM-DD-YYYY), regardless of the user's local settings.

T5x27‖Time field

mrE8G‖The time format is sent in a fixed format (HH:MM:SS), regardless of the user's local settings.

RkFrp‖Pattern field

D7bBF‖The values of pattern fields are sent as text fields, that is, the value visible in the form is sent.

8GTBK‖Table control

qsnKF‖From the table control, the individual columns are always transmitted. The name of the control, the name of the column, and the value of the column are sent. Using the Get method with URL encoding, the transmission is done in the form <Name of the table control>.<Name of the column>=<Value>, for example, with the value being dependent on the column.