Step 2: Set the default appearance of your forms (study-level styles)

Show me how to set study-level styles

Tips:

We recommend that you set these study-level styles, for two reasons:
- To save time. When you set the styles at the study level, the settings are propagated to all forms, codelists, and items in the study. As a result, you do not need to set styles for each study object, unless you want to override the study-level settings.
- To enforce standards and consistency across a study.
This setting applies to all existing and new study objects that inherit the study-level styles.

In the upper-left corner, click Tools, and select Edit Study Level Styles.
You can set the following styles.
- Form styles
  - Question column width—Percentage of the width of the layout table to use for the question column.
    For example, if you enter 50 in the field, the question occupies half of the form, and the control where the InForm user enters data takes up the remaining half.
- Codelist styles
  - Control orientation—Display codelist items (radio buttons or checkboxes) horizontally or vertically.
  - Single selection settings—Display a list of options as radio buttons or in a drop-down list.
    - For radio buttons:
      Use pulldown when item count exceeds—When the number of radio buttons exceeds the specified number, display them in a drop-down list.
      Display vertically when item count exceeds—When the number of radio buttons exceeds the specified number, display them as a vertical list.
- Compound item styles
  - Caption alignment—Align the top-level item's caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of the control.
  - Control orientation—For a control with sub-controls (also called nested controls), indicate whether you want the nested controls to be displayed horizontally or vertically.
- Date time item styles
  - Year range—First and last years that you want to appear in the Year field for date time items.
  - Caption alignment—Align the top-level item's caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of the control.
- Float item styles
  - Caption alignment—Align the top-level item's caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of the control.
  - Textbox width—Width of the control in which users can enter alphanumeric characters such as letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
    - Use the item variable's length as the width—Use each item's length as the width for the item's control.
    - Use this width—Enter the number of characters wide you want for the item's control, which is used instead of the control's specified width.
  - Unit control type—For an item with more than one unit control, display the unit controls as radio buttons or in a pulldown.
- Integer item styles
  - Caption alignment—Align the top-level item's caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of the control.
  - Textbox width—Width of the control in which users can enter alphanumeric characters such as letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
    - Use the item variable's length as the width—Use each item's length as the width for the item's control.
    - Use this width—Enter the number of characters wide you want for the item's control, which is used instead of the control's specified width.
  - Unit control type—Display unit controls as radio buttons or in a pulldown.
- Text item styles
  - Caption alignment—Align the top-level item's caption to the left, top, right, or bottom of the control.
  - Textbox size—Width of the control in which users can enter alphanumeric characters such as letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
    - Use the item variable's length as the width—Use each item's length as the width for the item's control.
      Increase the height by one line for every __ chars—The control's height is 1 line per the number of characters entered for the item's length. Use this field to increase the control's height by one line for every additional specified number of characters used for its width.
      For example, if you use the default value of 50 characters, an item with a length of 10 has a height of 1 line, and an item with a length of 60 has a height of 2 lines.
    - Use the following width and height—Enter a width (in number of characters) and height (in number of lines) for text boxes.
  - Character set restriction—Indicate whether you want to require InForm users to enter only ASCII characters in text items without codelists, or if InForm users can use any character set for text items.
    The ASCII Only restriction is enforced if you're deploying to InForm release 5.0 or higher.
Click Apply, and click Close.