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+ | ====== Forms Design User’s Guide ====== | ||
+ | ====== Welcome ====== | ||
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+ | Welcome to iDocs DesignerTM and iDocsTM iSeries electronic form integration software. | ||
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+ | iDocs is the easiest way to convert your paper forms to electronic forms. Use iDocs to compose forms, fill forms, manage information databases, and print and mail forms among other functions. | ||
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+ | inFORM Decisions iDocs (flashFORM) has a powerful automatic form conversion (“vectorization”) capability that enables you to automatically create electronic forms from scanned in pre-printed forms. It recognizes lines, text, circles and graphics | ||
+ | How to Use this Manual | ||
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+ | This manual is laid out into two User’s Guides: iDocs Designer User’s Guide and iDocs iSeries Document Integration User’s Guide. | ||
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+ | === iDocs Designer User Guide === | ||
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+ | The first User’s Guide covers all aspects of initiating the forms recognition, | ||
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+ | === iDocs iSeries Document Integration User’s Guide === | ||
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+ | The iSeries (AS/400) form integration Guide covers all the steps to integrate your designed forms and graphics to your iSeries application environment. | ||
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+ | ===== iDocs Designer’s Online Help ===== | ||
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+ | iDocs Designer’s online help contains information on features, settings, and procedures. The online help conforms to Windows online help conventions and has been designed for quick and easy information retrieval. Please see information on using the online help. | ||
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+ | ===== Using This Manual ===== | ||
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+ | This manual is written with the assumption that you know how to work in the Windows environment. Please refer to your Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use dialog boxes, menu commands, scroll bars, drag and drop functionality, | ||
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+ | The following conventions are used in the iDocs Designer User’s Guide section: | ||
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+ | ===== Getting Online Help ===== | ||
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+ | In addition to using this manual, you can use iDocs’s online help topics to learn about features and procedures. Online help is available after you install iDocs. | ||
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+ | iDocs’s online help follows the conventions of Microsoft Windows 95 Help. Choose How to Use Help in iDocs’s Help menu to get information on using Help. | ||
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+ | ===== Help menu ===== | ||
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+ | Use the commands in the Help menu to find information about iDocs topics. | ||
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+ | Select iDocs Help to obtain iDocs’s main Help topics. Select Getting Started to begin iDocs’s tutorials. Select How to Use Help to get Microsoft Windows Help topics that explain how to use and customize Help. Select Product Support to find out how to get product support services for iDocs. Select Tip of the Day... (if a form is open) to obtain tips to help you use iDocs. Select About iDocs to get information about your version of iDocs. | ||
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+ | ===== iDocs Tutorials ===== | ||
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+ | iDocs has four online tutorials to step you through the basics. If you have never used iDocs before or you need to review some of the procedures, please go through these tutorials. | ||
+ | * In the first tutorial, Load and Fill a Form, you will scan (or import) and fill a Sample form (included in the iDocs package) by using the Form Assistant. | ||
+ | * In the second tutorial, Edit and Design a Form, you will scan or import the Sample form into iDocs again and learn to use the basic buttons and menu commands, verify and correct OCR, and modify the form. | ||
+ | * In the third tutorial, Design Your Own Form, you will create a form and learn how to create objects, define calculations, | ||
+ | * In the fourth tutorial, The iDocs Database, you will use the form that you created in the third tutorial and learn some basics about iDocs’s database as well as how to create and manipulate database records. | ||
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+ | ===== Context-Sensitive Help ===== | ||
+ | You can get on-the spot information about a particular iDocs command, toolbar button, or dialog box option in the following ways: | ||
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+ | ===== Product Support ===== | ||
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+ | For the fastest and easiest way to get help, please look for solutions in this manual or in the online Help. See “ General Troubleshooting” | ||
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+ | If you need additional help, please use the following resources: | ||
+ | * inFORM Decisions’s World Wide Web site\\ Go to inFORM Decisions’s World Wide Web site for common questions and answers, updates, patches, troubleshooting procedures, and product information. inFORM Decisions’s Web site address: | ||
+ | * Scanner Setup Notes\\ Read the Scanner Setup Notes document to learn about supported scanners and related issues. This document has been provided to you as an electronic document in PDF format within the program files installed in Windows, Start... | ||
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+ | You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01 or greater installed if you want to read the Product Support and Scanner Setup Notes PDF documents. | ||
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