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Many work flows often involve a number of people filling out different sections of a single form. So when you're designing this type of flow, you're most likely dragging the same form into the flow designer repeatedly to create the different steps in the flow. Another way to create this type of flow is to use the Linked Forms Steps feature of the flow designer. In this method, you create a linked version of a form for each step you want in your flow. One great advantage of this method is that if you need to make changes to the form after you've created your flow, you only have to edit the "parent" form — the editing changes are automatically propagated to its linked forms in the flow. Conversely, if you drag multiple copies of the same form into a flow to create steps, you'd have to make any changes to each copy of the form in each step. One circumstance in which you might not want to use linked forms is a flow in which each user is filling out a different form, or you want to If you want to show or hide different parts of a form depending on which user is filling it out (although , you can easily do this to some extent in a flow designed with linked forms steps using the Security tab or Business Rules in the Form Designer when you create your form). One circumstance in which you might not want to use linked forms is a flow in which each user is filling out a different form. - To create linked forms in a flow, first drag a form into the flow designer.
- Click on the form, and then click
 to create a linked form. - Continue clicking to create as many of the linked forms as you want.
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The example below shows the parent Lodging-Meal Selections form and its two linked forms. Notice that the parent form and its linked forms initially all have the same name, but the linked forms are outlined by dashed lines rather than solid lines. Note also that the form displays three icons when you click on it, while the linked forms display only the remove icon.*
- Click Image Modified to create a linked
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- step in the Form Designer to edit it.
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- linked step.
- Click Image Addedto download the parent step as a standalone form. This icon will not display on the linked steps.
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Linked Steps Workflow Example
Because the parent forms and its linked forms represent steps, you'll want to give them unique names. The parent form in this example has three tabs used for hotel check in, dinner selection, and hotel check out.
To rename the form parent step and its linked formssteps, click on them and then use the Name setting in the Properties panel as shown below.
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As with other forms you use to create steps, you can assign a linked-form step to a Role,so that the step is performed by someone with that role, or even by a specific user. In this example, we rename all three steps and assign each to a different role.
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If you check the Save PDF property on the flow properties panel, a PDF image of the flow is saved in the Live Forms' submission repository. It is no longer necessary to uncheck the printable property for all but one of the steps if your flow is designed with Linked steps to prevent the form from being printed more than once in the default pdf. This was required in previous versions of Live Forms. Refer to this Printable property for more information.
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