Overview

Form director implements the real-world concept of a single-page form as the type FormDefinition. This type exposes several parameters to allow storage of various attributes of a single-page form.

FormDirector also implements the type FormDefinition file, which derives from the FormDefinition type and adds the capability to write and read itself from persistent storage.

Purpose

The primary purpose of a FormDefinition object is to represent a single-page form, in order to support form identification and field-level processing of a form. As a result, the core parts of a FormDefinition object are a template image and a collection of Fields.

A secondary purpose is to hold data that is stored persistently in a form definition file, including the name of the form, parameters for form processing, and some miscellaneous data.

The FormDefinition class is an abstract class which defers the details of reading and writing form definition files to a derived class, FormDefinitionFile. You can create your own derived classes to manage reading and writing to other locations, such as a web server or database.

Attributes and Operations

To see a full list of attributes and operations of the FormDefinition class see the FormDefinition Members page. See also the FormDefinitionFile Members page.