Great post!

Panels are also helpful because if you need to move around your grouped data, it all is held by that bucket.

THREE CHEERS FOR PANELS!

Thanks for the tip. I think it's very usefull to write about these topics as many of us appeared to have the same issues.

The Form design becomes even more challenging when you decide to use hide rules. In this case you need to take into account that when panels in between become hidden, they will not automatically clear the space in between. In that case you need to horizontal organize the fields. I will try to share a couple of examples, challenging myself at the moment.

I'm new to this and struggling, but I've been able to figure out how to hide the panels and have them show with a choice control.  However, I have not been able to figure out how to fix the overlap.  Everything I've come across says make sure that panels don't overlap in the form.  They don't overlap.  Says also that it should automatically pull to the top of the screen automatically depending on the choices selected.  I have 2 problems:

1.  They overlap even though in the form they don't.  And it is from 2 different forms/panels that overlap.  Anyone know how I can fix this? 

Overlap in preview

Don't overlap in forms view

2.  I want the comments to appear in-between my submitter information and the card that is selected, so that they make the selections Green, Yellow, Red, N/A first then add comments after.  How can I fix the blank space in-between and have it move with the form panels?

hi all,

is there a way to put a panel over controls ? 

Or do I always have to put the panel down first and then put the controls inside the panel?

I've just been building a form and realised it will be easier to use a panel for some of the functionality but was hoping to avoid having to put each of the controls and labels into the panel one by one.

thanks

john

@johnfriday13 my advice here would be to expand your form if possible, add your panel and then use the mouse to grab all the controls you want in the panel. Drag them into the panel.

Another option would be to add the panel, right click and send to back. Then highlight with ctrl > select each control and bring to front, then drag them slightly. You should see the panel change colors meaning the controls are showing within the panel.

Tinker with it and see which one is easier. 

Eric

thanks @eharris04 that's a good solution

@johnfriday13 please mark the response that best suits a correct answer for others.  Cheers!

hi Eric,

I guess only the person who loaded the question can mark a correct answer, but I clicked on kudos because that was all that was available.

let me know if I can do anything else?

best regards

john

@eharris04

Eric thank you so much for your tips about working with panels!  I realized when you said "expand your form" that I could shrink the screen view using the zoom on my browser and then I could see the whole form. Then I could click just outside the form and draw a select square by holding the mouse down so that I dragged over and selected/highlighted all of my controls and was able to move them into the panel once it turned grey.  

Also, your mention of sending the panel to the back and sending the controls to the front, etc. is so helpful! Thanks so much.