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Organizing a template with sections

Organizing a template with sections

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Organizing a template with sections

Before you begin adding tables and controls to your form, you should think about how your form would best be organized. In addition to using tables, you can use sections, and should use sections, to organize your data in a way that's meaningful. For example, in this form, which is a request to post something on a web site, we have a well-organized data source here. Here's who the request is coming from, all of their information, and here's information about the post, the information that's being sent to be put on the web. These are two different types of data. And then within the posts section, we actually have a title and a description for the post. We also have some category information, some department information, and then whether or not this is a news item. We're going to spend a fair amount of time with this form, so let's make sure that we understand what it's about. When I want to have somebody post something on our intranet or Internet in my organization, I'm going to send…

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