Create a Transition Between Forms

When you use Loftware Spectrum to design data entry form experiences for end users, you can configure transitions that guide users from one form to another in response to their input or other conditions.

Before You Begin: You should create the forms, business rules, and processes that you intend to use with an application before you create the application. For more information, see Create a Form and Designing Business Rules with the Configurator.

To configure a transition between forms in an application, use this procedure.

1. In Application Design , open an application.
2. To configure transitions between forms in the application, on the Home or Insert tab, drag and drop Transition onto the form from which the transition should begin.
3. In the Transition dialog box, review the selection for Transition to and ensure that it is the form that the transition should lead to next.
4. Select a control in the form to act as a Trigger Source and select a Trigger Event associated with that control. When the trigger event occurs to the trigger source (for example, when a particular button is clicked), the application transitions from the current form to the next form.
5. Optionally, you can set a priority The order in which actions, rules, or data services that have otherwise identical triggers are run. Priority values are compared only if the actions have the same trigger source, trigger event, and trigger key (if any). The type of trigger source is irrelevant. Among actions, rules, or data services with otherwise identical triggers, the trigger source with the lowest value for priority is run first..
6. Optionally, you can further restrict whether the transition will occur by requiring that a particular data map entry A name (key) and value pair in the data map for a job. have a specified value. To do so, select Conditional.
   1. For Name, enter the name of a fully-qualified data map entry.
   2. For Operator, specify the method to compare the data map entry to a particular value.
   3. If the data map entry is being compared to a specified value, for Value enter that value.
7. Click OK. The transition is displayed in the list of Actions (accessible from View > Actions) when you click the form from which the transition begins.
8. Click File > Save or click the Save button.

If you want to cause an action or rule to run when an application or a particular form is loaded, when a Data Provider performs an action, or when other circumstances occur, see Add an Action or Rule.