To simplify your daily routines when creating documents and reports with the same repeating text, fragments, or the other elements, you can use both global and local subforms designed for this purpose.

In this exercise, you can learn how to add both local and global subforms to a new sheet as well as edit them.

Exercise

Download and import the attached configuration called 36. Subforms (Global and Local) in Lasernet Developer 9. Afterwards, go to the Forms section and open the Sample form.

Once you are done, proceed through the following steps:

1. Add a new sheet. To this end, right-click the Sheet 1 tab in the input, and then click Add on the context menu that appears.

2. As a result, the Sheet Options dialog opens. Click Ok to confirm adding a new sheet.

3. Let’s insert local and global forms to the new sheet. To this end, on the Developer bar, click Subforms, and then click Insert Global Subform….

Once a cursor becomes a cross, click in the output. As a result, the Subforms dialog appears.

4. With the Subform dialog displayed, select the Logo subform on the left panel, and then click the Ok button.

5. To insert a local subform, on the Developer bar, click Subforms, and then click Insert Local Subform….

Once a cursor becomes a cross, click in the output. As a result, the Subform dialog appears.

6. With the Subform dialog displayed, select the Header subform on the left panel, and then click the Ok button.

7. Change the position for the Header local subform. To this end, right-click the subform, and then click Position on the context menu that appears. Specify the position values as shown on the picture below.

8. On the View menu, select the Object boxes check box to view all the elements belonging to the subform.

As a result, you can see two subforms added to a new sheet.

Note: Pay your attention to a position of the static form which is fixed as you set it in the previous exercise.