Hi I am new to Ninox and I think it's great. I have a problem though: how do I create a form where I can change the layout so it represents other fields in another layout than my other form layout. Any changes I make in form1 seem to be applied to form2 as well and if I want to remove a field from the view it seems to be deleted altogether. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Michiel, if I understand correctly, in a Table, you would like to be able to display different fields in different records?
By default, each record in a Table will show the same fields in each form. To hide/show them only in some you will need to use make an entry in "Display field only if". For example, if you would like to show a field in the record only with Id=1 then enter this code: Id=1.

In the "Edit Fields" view the vertical order of fields controls their order on forms. You can hide any field by setting its "Display field only, if" property to Null. You can drag Tabs from right to left to control the display of fields. For example, if you have 6 fields and you want 3 to appear under one Tab and 3 to appear under the other Tab, you would place the Tab after the third field.

You are not doing anything wrong. You are looking for "Models", a concept that exists in another well-known database application, but not in Ninox. Unfortunately, Forms are not models. You can somewhat fake the functionality by defining a multiple choice field to select the desired "model", and then put conditions based on this field in the "Display field only if" boxes of the other fields. However, this poor man model system will not be able to change the order of the fields.

Seems you mix up the views in one table with different data-sets.

One table can only contain one form but different views.

A view is a way of presenting the same table in a different way.

A form is a neat way to input the data into the table.

All the field in the form are also in the table. Fields not on the form are invisible in the form (hidden, but still there).

Hope this helps.

Steven

A form in Ninox is the “data owning form” of the underlying table. In Nixon there is only One. What Michiel is looking for is looking for is many forms over the same underlying table - Not possible in Ninox and no idea if ther are considering it - I would wecome this as i had in in my previous software before moving to Ninox but i guess it depend on demand! It would also bring in actra complication too ie if you delete a field in say form 2 (NOT the table owing form) do you you also delete the filed in the table as this would affect the same field in form 1 etc.

The software i used a s reference above worked on tha basis that the table owing from (form1) all fields were “bound” to the table wheresas all files in (form 2) were not - you could add then or delete the from the form but they did not affect the underyling table

Hi Anna & Michiel

If you haven“t heard from Alain and would still like some help over zoom, I am quite flexible over the next few days and would be happy to help.

Simon