topic Re: creating forms in arcpad 8 in ArcPad Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/creating-forms-in-arcpad-8/m-p/357629#M2584 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey Kyle, the first step that you have to take to build a form is creating an AXF.&nbsp; While doing that, you will also generate the APM (ArcPad Map) file that will be seen on the data collector.&nbsp; This link does a good job of showing how to create them and the reasons behind it. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.nd.gov/gis/images/gis-users-conf-2009/presentations/WSIIIA_Crissinger_Brandon.pdf">http://www.nd.gov/gis/images/gis-users-conf-2009/presentations/WSIIIA_Crissinger_Brandon.pdf</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>That still leaves creating the form, so use ArcPad Studio to open the AXF you created and under Feature Layers you should have listed the dataset(s) that will be edited.&nbsp; If you doubleclick the dataset it will bring up the specifics for that dataset.&nbsp; If you doubleclick &lt;EDITFORM&gt;datasetname it will bring up the form view and you should be able to figure it out from there.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:23:40 GMT AmenAbdou 2011-01-24T14:23:40Z creating forms in arcpad 8 https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/creating-forms-in-arcpad-8/m-p/357628#M2583 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am new to arcpad, I am trying to create forms for field collection in a trimble unit but I have never done this before. Are there any links to show you the process of doing this around?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:20:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/creating-forms-in-arcpad-8/m-p/357628#M2583 KyleMacLaurin 2011-01-24T12:20:53Z Re: creating forms in arcpad 8 https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/creating-forms-in-arcpad-8/m-p/357629#M2584 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey Kyle, the first step that you have to take to build a form is creating an AXF.&nbsp; While doing that, you will also generate the APM (ArcPad Map) file that will be seen on the data collector.&nbsp; This link does a good job of showing how to create them and the reasons behind it. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.nd.gov/gis/images/gis-users-conf-2009/presentations/WSIIIA_Crissinger_Brandon.pdf">http://www.nd.gov/gis/images/gis-users-conf-2009/presentations/WSIIIA_Crissinger_Brandon.pdf</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>That still leaves creating the form, so use ArcPad Studio to open the AXF you created and under Feature Layers you should have listed the dataset(s) that will be edited.&nbsp; If you doubleclick the dataset it will bring up the specifics for that dataset.&nbsp; If you doubleclick &lt;EDITFORM&gt;datasetname it will bring up the form view and you should be able to figure it out from there.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:23:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/creating-forms-in-arcpad-8/m-p/357629#M2584 AmenAbdou 2011-01-24T14:23:40Z