Managing the use of form styles
You can store style libraries on the network to make them
readily available to all InfoMaker users. You do this with a shared
initialization file on a network: you place an InfoMaker initialization
file that references the shared style libraries out on the network,
then set up InfoMaker users so that they can access the initialization
file.
To make style libraries available throughout your
organization:
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Place the style libraries on the network
in a directory accessible to InfoMaker users. -
Open InfoMaker, go to the Library painter, and
make sure all style libraries are listed in the search path. -
Close InfoMaker.
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Copy your InfoMaker initialization file to a directory
on the network that is accessible to all InfoMaker users.This is the shared initialization file. It records all the
style libraries in the StyleLib variable in the [Application] section. -
Set up InfoMaker users so that they can access
the shared initialization file.Each InfoMaker user needs to specify the location of the shared initialization
file in InfoMaker.For more information, see “Specifying the
location of the shared InfoMaker initialization file in InfoMaker”.
Specifying the
location of the shared InfoMaker initialization file in InfoMaker
Once the shared initialization file has been defined in a
user’s InfoMaker initialization file, the user’s
style library search path consists of the style libraries defined
in the user’s local InfoMaker initialization file plus
all style libraries defined in the shared initialization file. When
the user creates a new form, the form styles defined in all the
style libraries display in the New Form dialog box.
Each InfoMaker user needs to tell InfoMaker where to find
the shared initialization file.
To specify the location of a shared InfoMaker
initialization file:
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Select Tools>System Options from
the InfoMaker menu bar. -
On the General property page, enter the path for
the shared InfoMaker initialization file. -
Click OK.
InfoMaker saves the path for InfoMaker initialization in the
registry.
Preventing the use of built-in styles
You might not want the built-in form styles to be available
to InfoMaker users. That is, you might want all forms to be based
on one of your organization’s user-defined styles. You
can ensure this by suppressing the display of the built–in
styles in the New Form dialog box.
To suppress the display of built-in styles:
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Set up a shared initialization file on
the network as described in the preceding section. -
Add this line to the [Window] section
of the shared initialization file:1ShowStandardStyles = 0
With this line specified in the shared initialization file,
users can choose only from user-defined form styles when creating
a new form. (Note that a ShowStandardStyles line in a user’s
local InfoMaker initialization file is ignored by InfoMaker.)