Tabs for form navigation?

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    Kam Muri

    Interesting idea, and can see how it would be useful. But could also see the potential for things to get a bit confusing for users as you'll start to have many concurrent app 'states'. 

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    Tony Ruth

    Hi Lea, we have tackled similar challenges in the past by building custom interfaces on top of the core platform to cater to a certain style of collection.

    We have found that trying to tackle this in a universal fashion usually gets close but never quite achieves the desired workflow.  If you would like to explore in more detail please drop us an email and we can help take a closer look with you.

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    David Klap

    Hello, can I suggest collapsible frames within the form. This would allow multiple pseudo 'subforms' to be held within the same form. It would result in a form that presents multiple sub headings that when clicked would expand to expose the required data fields. At present this could be done without the 'collapsible frames' but leads to a long form that becomes difficult to navigate. It does result in a flatter record ( and longer record ) too but if the work flow justifies it and it supports a logical data structure then I could see it being of great benefit. We too get feedback about the time it takes to navigate in and out of subforms to collect hierarchical asset information and it would help us be more efficient during the data collection process.

    I would see it as being a new Widget ( Collapsible Container ) that gets dragged onto the form. Then entry widgets could be placed within this container as per usual, the only difference being that when rendered in the application the user only sees the heading of the Container and has to tap the heading to expand the contents. I don't think it would change much in the way iForms works with it's current data structures, rather a small change in the the logical design of how iforms presents the widgets.

    Anyway , that's my two cents, be interested in your thoughts.

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