Don't want the edit form to open

[AshalaPalaniuk]

Hi All,

I have an end user that will be taking the hand-held out and collecting point locations only.  By default, whenever a new point is added, the edit form automatically opens so that they can edit the attributes.  They don't want to be editing the attributes - only capturing the location of the points.  Is there a way that I can have it so this form doesn't automatically open up?  Its annoying to have to close it every time.  We are using ArcPad version 10.0.

[ToddStuber]

apalaniuk,

You can toggle whether the edit form will pop up automatically or not via the Display Edit Form box, which can be accessed through the table of contents (See the screen-shot I have attached).  By default the box is checked for each layer in your map.  By un-checking the box you can control which of your layers will have the edit form display after adding a new feature. 

Thanks!

[AshalaPalaniuk]

Perfect!  Thank you very much 😄

[AshalaPalaniuk]

By any chance do you (or anyone else) know how I can set it to be off by default?  What I am finding is that everytime I export to ArcPad it of course creates new files, and so when I start to input features the box opens (until of course I go in and manually turn this option off in the TOC panel).  It would be helpful to my end user if they didn't have to worry about this step each time (which will be daily) and I could somehow configure it just to never open.

[RolfBroch]

If you have the same ArcPad map file (.apm) everytime you can just edit the layer properties tag and set the showeditform tag to false.

<LAYER name="The layer" identify="true" quickcapture="true" quickcapturelabel="" showeditform="false" quickdraw="1">

Rolf

[AshalaPalaniuk]

A related follow up question to this - when I have the "Toggle Edit Form" box unchecked (so the edit form doesn't pop up) then when I add a point via gps it doesn't actually add the point.

Let me clarify - when I use the add point tool to manually add it, the point is added.  But when I add the point via the gps capture point tool, it only adds the point if I allow the edit form to open and select okay, rather than the "x".  It's almost as if when the form doesn't open it automatically selects the x.  I thought it might be just not showing the added point (due to a symbology or definition query error) but it seems to not be adding the point at all (when I go to check it in there are no "additions"). 

I am hoping not to have the form pop-up.  There is only one editable attribute available and I would like it to remain as a null value.  I can't set a default domain value because this wouldn't be the case for "regular" data input via arcmap.