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Workflow Products Documentation

Forms and User Displays
- Forms Introduction
- Designer Panels
- Display and Group Duplication
  - Display and Group Duplication
    Workflow allows you to duplicate displays and display groups.
    - Add displays or forms to a group
    - Add a display or form group to another group
    - Duplicate a display or group
      This procedure applies only to forms, user displays, and form and user display groups.
    - Differences Between Duplicate Displays
      The idea of duplicating is to make an exact copy of the original; however, in some cases there are some differences between duplicated forms and user displays.
    - Exception to the Duplication Rule
      After a display is duplicated, the original and duplicated item become independent of one another, where modifications to one do not affect the other. However, there is one exception to this rule.
    - File Duplication in Forms and Displays
      When forms or displays that were created in the Forms Designer are duplicated, the files in the project folder (in Windows Explorer) are also duplicated.
- Form Templates
- Basic Forms and Displays
- Web-Based Forms and Displays
- Existing Assembly Options
- Form Development in Visual Studio
- Form Development in Silverlight

Display and Group Duplication

Workflow allows you to duplicate displays and display groups.

In addition, you can specify where you want the copy to be located. That is, you can duplicate a form or user display and locate it in either the Displays or Forms folder as a new parent group, or you can locate it within an existing group as a child of that parent.

Duplicating displays is useful if you want to reuse certain aspects of a display without having to recreate it. Since you cannot move an existing display, the ability to duplicate a display under a different group means you do not have to manually recreate a display in order for it to belong to a group.

Duplication can also be used to move a form from one group to another. You can duplicate the form to a new location and then delete the original. However, if there are any workflows referencing the form in the original location, you must update each of the workflows that use that form to reference the new location.

Note: When you duplicate a group, all of the displays that are part of that group are also duplicated.

Duplication works for all varieties of forms and displays, including those that are created in the Designer, uploaded as a .NET assembly, or ones that point to a web URL.