The Advanced Designer environment is a graphic tool that allows you to add, edit and format the form elements. The Advanced Designer is displayed automatically when you create a new form from a PDF or when you select the  action button shown beside an existing form.

This topic describes:

• The Edit page and Sidebar
• Creating a new field
• Defining a field
• Revising a form.

About the Edit page

When Advanced Designer environment is selected, the Edit <form name> page is displayed and shows an image of the form. You can edit this image in the following ways:

• Either draw an area on the form or select a box area that exists on the form and designate it as a field. When the form is used, the Digital Pen will recognise the type of information that is being written
• Define a field with a pre-defined or custom description
• Associate an event with the field
• Save the new form so that it can be used.

You use the options in the Sidebar to create and define a field. The Sidebar contains the following sections:

• Toolbox, containing the Select, Draw and Wand tools as well as tools for deleting fields, undoing actions, formatting fields and zooming the view of the form. A tooltip is provided to describe each option in the toolbox.
• Configuration options, specific to the type of field being edited.

Tip 1: If the Sidebar is hidden you can reopen it by clicking the  arrow in the top left corner of a screen.

To create and select a field

1. If there is more that one page in the form, click the appropriate  page tab at the top of the form and find the area in the Form where you want to create a Field
2. If there is already a printed rectangle to represent the field, use the  Wand tool to locate it; alternatively:
3. If you want to create a new space, use the  Drawing tool to draw a custom rectangle.

To define a field

Click here to see details of the Field Definitions available.

1. Use the  Select tool to click on the new field, it will be marked at the corners to show it is selected
2. Type the name of the field in Field Name
3. By default the field is defined as Isolated Text and you can either continue to specify the sub type and options, or:
4. Select a different type from the drop-down list in Field Types and (if available) select an accompanying sub-type from the next Field Typebox
5. If available, the field Configuration options are displayed in the Sidebar
6. Choose the settings you require
7. Open the Events tab and, if available, select an event from the drop-down list
8. To save the changes to the form and continue working, click Save Form
   To save the form and close the editor, click Save & Close.

After you have saved and closed the new form you can retrieve it and continue editing at any time by selecting the Form in Recent Forms and clicking the  Advanced Designer button.

To revise the new form

You can use the following tools to make changes while you edit the form:

	Delete tool, to delete a selected area from a form
	Undo tool, to reverse the last action you took
	Redo tool, to redo the last action you took