Hello all,
I am working with a team of three people that are each writing different sections of a form file, and we would like to merge the three form files that we create (bring all of our forms together into one file). We've tried copy/cut and pasting but CSPro crashes before it will show anything contained in the pasted forms. Does anyone know the best way to combine three form files?
Merging form files
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Gregory Martin
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Re: Merging form files
This is not an easy task. You have two options:
1) Create a new form in your base application, copy all the fields from a form in the other application, and paste them to your newly created form. You'll have to do this separately for each form, and you need to make sure that your base application dictionary has items for all the fields in the other application's forms. If this is crashing, then there is a bug with CSPro, and we could fix it if you sent us the dictionary and forms to gregory.martin@census.gov.
2) Manually edit the .fmf form file. You have to be incredibly careful doing this, but if done properly, you can copy the forms (from the [Form] section at the top) and the groups (from the [Group] section, which follows the [Level] section) into your base application's form file. If you try this, make sure that you have backups of all of your files, as it is really easy to mess up your form file if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
1) Create a new form in your base application, copy all the fields from a form in the other application, and paste them to your newly created form. You'll have to do this separately for each form, and you need to make sure that your base application dictionary has items for all the fields in the other application's forms. If this is crashing, then there is a bug with CSPro, and we could fix it if you sent us the dictionary and forms to gregory.martin@census.gov.
2) Manually edit the .fmf form file. You have to be incredibly careful doing this, but if done properly, you can copy the forms (from the [Form] section at the top) and the groups (from the [Group] section, which follows the [Level] section) into your base application's form file. If you try this, make sure that you have backups of all of your files, as it is really easy to mess up your form file if you don't know exactly what you're doing.