The Form Editor (File | Reporting | New | Form Report) lets you build interactive forms and dialog boxes and activate them when a measurement routine gets executed. These interactive forms use the Visual BASIC language. Forms, mixed with a good understanding of the Visual BASIC language and PC-DMIS automation, can give power and flexibility to your measurement routines.
Forms play an active part in reporting because whenever you use a form to control what gets executed, you indirectly control what ends up in your report.
This section, however, does not attempt to cover everything that you can do with forms. Instead, it covers how to use create and use forms in general, and in a reporting sense, how to get information from the user and into a report using standard PC-DMIS commands.
Forms can also be used in a non-reporting role as a way to provide useful instructions to operators. See "Providing Operator Instructions Using OLE Objects with Forms" for some examples on how to do this.
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