About layouts and the Layout tab

Locales and translation

Every layout supports all locales. You do not need to create a unique layout for every form and locale in the study. Use the Locales drop-down list on the toolbar in the Layout tab to switch between locales and provide translations.

For more information, see:

• Translating text in the Layout tab.
• Previewing a locale.

Styles and inheritance

Styles specified for the study, individual forms, and individual controls determine the appearance of each layout.

For more information, see About styles and inheritance.

Creating and deleting

You can create and delete layouts, and you can reset an existing layout to use the styles of another layout for a form.

Automatic refreshing

The Layout tab automatically refreshes its display after you change the structure of a form. For example, the layout refreshes after you add or delete an item, codelist, or codelist item; reorder items; or mark an item as conditional or not conditional.

If you modify an item layout, the changes are not propagated to the form unless you reset the form layout. Similarly, if a compound item has an item layout and one of its child items also has an item layout, changes to the child item's layout are not propagated to the layout for the compound item unless you reset or create the layout for the compound item.

Note: If a form contains a compound item with an item layout, and the compound item has a child item with an item layout, the form reads only the item layout from the compound item.

Primary layouts

Every layout requires a primary layout, or validation fails. An icon on the tab that contains the name of the layout (at the bottom of the Layout tab) indicates the primary layout.

For more information, see Setting the primary layout for a study.

Deployment options

When you create a deployment package, an additional page appears if the study contains one or more new layouts. The page, called Select Layouts, appears after the Select Locales page. On the page, you choose the layout to deploy. If the layout does not exist for a form, the primary layout for the form is deployed instead.

For more information, see Creating a deployment package.

Note: The rendering of content in the Layout tab is not an exact representation of the appearance of content in the InForm application.

Importing

When you import a study for which study styles have been set, the styles in the imported study overwrite the study styles in the existing study.