Fields that are Grouped

The Group Name and Vertical Group Name settings allow you to control the layout of the web form. All fields with the same Group Name value show in the same horizontal row; all fields with the same Vertical Group Name value within a set of horizontally grouped fields show in the same column. The settings work in both View and Edit mode.

The following topics are discussed:

Horizontal Grouping

You can configure a form to display a group of fields in one row using the Group Name setting. All fields with the same group name are grouped together.

Important: The "Group Holder" value for Field Type and the Group Count setting have been deprecated. To group fields on a form, you must use the Group Name setting.

For fields that should be grouped, add the setting Group Name=[name] to the field in the form component. All consecutive fields that have the same name will be considered one group. For example:

Field1

Field2

Field3 (Group Name = abc)

Field4 (Group Name = abc)

Field5 (Group Name = abc)

Field6

Field7 (Group Name = abc)

Field8 (Group Name = abc)

Field9 (Group Name = xyz)

Field10 (Group Name = xyz)

For the above fields the form looks like the following

Field1

Field2

Field3

Field4

Field5

Field6

Field7

Field8

Field9

Field10

Vertical Grouping

The Vertical Group Name setting works with the Group Name setting to allow some fields to span multiple rows within that group.



For fields that should be grouped, add the setting Vertical Group Name=[name] to the field in the form component. All consecutive fields that have the same name will be considered one group. This setting can be combined with the Group Name setting. For example:

Field1 (Group Name = abc) (Vertical Group Name = def)

Field2 (Group Name = abc) (Vertical Group Name = def)

Field3 (Group Name = abc) (Vertical Group Name = def)

Field4 (Group Name = abc) (Vertical Group Name = ghi)

Field5 (Group Name = abc) (Vertical Group Name = jkl)

Field6

For the above fields the form looks like this

Field1 Label

Field1 Value

Field4 Label

Field4 Value

Field5 Label

Field5Value

Field2 Label

Field2 Value

Field3 Label

Field3 Value

Field6 Label

Field6 Value

Because Field4 and Field5 belong to different vertical groups, but are in the same horizontal group, they span all of the rows.

You can also use the Hide Label=true setting with any field, and the multiple fields can be in any column; they do not need to be in the first column as shown in the example.