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Create the Allowances Form
In this tutorialform, we we will collect information for the Personal Allowances section of the W - 4 Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate. The section is shown below. The will e-form will have controls for the A, C, D allowances and a control to calculate store the total allowances for the number of allowances designated by the new employee.
Create a simple form to collect this information. Here is an example. We will map the data in these fields, along with some others, to the W - 4 pdf later in this tutorial.
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Drag three Quantity controls from the palette and drop them on the designer canvas. Name them A_Allowance, C_Allowance and D_Allowance respectively. Type the instructions for A, C and D allowances as the labels for these controls. Add a fourth Quantity control where the result of the calculation of the total allowances can be stored. Name this control Total_Allowance Allowances and type "Total number of allowances you are claiming" as it's label. Uncheck the Enabled property for this control.
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We will use rules to calculate the total allowances and fill in the current date. Here's an example of a rule that will add the values for the A_Allowance, C_Allowance and D_allowance controls and store it in the Total_Allowances field. Use the Rule Validator to troubleshoot any issues.
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