Form previews

You can generate and print a preview of a form, showing how it will appear when deployed to the target application. In a form preview, the layout of questions and controls is different for a regular form and a repeating form or section:

• Regular form—Questions and controls are laid out vertically.
• Repeating form or section—Short titles for the questions are arranged horizontally across the top of the preview, and the questions and controls are laid out vertically.
• Fixed repeating section—The preview for a fixed repeating section contains two views.

  Grid landscape view—Short questions for top-level items are arranged horizontally across the top of the preview, and the labels for codelist items are laid out vertically for each fixed item.

  In the grid landscape view, blank cells have a gray background.

  • Portrait view—Short questions for top-level items are laid out vertically, and the labels for codelist items are laid out horizontally for each fixed item.

You can generate a form preview with or without annotations.

Notes:

• The form preview feature of the Layout tab allows you to view a preview of one form at a time. To view a preview of all forms in a study, you can generate an annotated study book.
• In the Annotated Study Book and Form Preview window, if a row contains many components, the browser that displays the page might wrap text to fit all components onto the page. Consequently, for Asian languages, a wrapped text label might appear to have vertical orientation, with a single character on each line, because the browser wraps text on a word boundary, and a single character can represent a word. To compensate, you can make the question portion of the row smaller so the labels in the control section are wide enough not to wrap.