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If you click on the Submit button in a form that contains invalid data or required fields that are empty,   the invalid fields will be highlighted with an orange background color. The designer can also display a message instructing the user what to do. This method is very helpful to users when trying to determine why a form does not submit. Refer to this topic for the details.

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Both buttons have properties that you can customize, so you are free to change the names of these buttons by editing their labels. Additional Submit Controls can be added to the form by dragging/dropping the submit control from the palette. The validation behavior described above applies to added Submit controls as long as the Enable if Valid property is checked.

There is a special template Uri variable named {_frevvo_submit_name}. This template gets converted to the name of the submit button the user clicked when they submitted the form. This feature makes it possible to pass to the back-end system which submit button was clicked (if the form contains multiple submit buttons), so the back end can switch the functionality based on which button the user chose.

An example use of this feature is to have one submit button labeled "Submit," and drop another onto the form and label it "Save". For the Save button, uncheck Enable if Valid. The back end system can then control a save/load feature.

It is also possible to hide one or both of these buttons by unchecking the visible property. It is common to hide the Cancel button and less common to hide the Submit. One example is if the You might hide the Submit button if an outer application, a JSP for example, takes over the function of handling a submit and then programmatically submits the form.

When you click the Cancel button, a confirmation message displays. You can internationalize this message - it will be part of the form/workflow strings even though there is no Cancel button for workflows.

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Form Outline

This area is only visible when you are in the Rules and PDF Mapping tabs. The form outline list all of the controls in this form and all of the properties applicable to particular controls. The form outline is very helpful when writing business rules. You can copy/paste control names from the form outline to your rule to avoid typos and case issues.

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