• Document form -- The top level in a hierarchy of forms. It is often called the Main topic form and can have zero or more response forms associated with it. A form creates main (parent) documents unless you designate it as a form that creates response documents.
• Response form -- Creates response documents associated with a main document. In a view, users select a main document and then compose a response. The response documents appear under the main document. Designers often create response documents that inherit data from the main document -- for example, the topic title.
• Response-to-response form -- Creates response documents associated with either a main document or a response document.

To create a response or response-to-response form

1. Open a form.

2. Choose Design - Form Properties.

3. On the Form Info tab, choose one of the following form types:

• Select "Response" for the form used to create responses to main documents.
• Select "Response to Response" for the form used to create responses to other responses.

To make it easy for users to find a related document, a document can include a parent or related document as a link, as collapsible rich text, or as rich text. For example, a new response document can include a link to its main document. A link takes up less disk space than a parent document because IBM® Lotus® Domino(TM) stores only a pointer to the document rather than a copy of the document.

When inheritance is enabled, the user selects a document and then chooses Create - <response/new form name>. The selected document becomes the parent document. The documents do not need a main document/response document relationship, because the selected document is assumed to be the parent document. A user can suppress inheritance by pressing CTRL while choosing Create.

1. Open the form.

2. Create a new rich text field to display the document or link.

3. Choose Design - Form Properties.

4. Click the Defaults tab.

5. Select "On Create: Inherit entire selected document into rich text field."

6. Select or enter the name of the rich text field you created in Step 2.

7. Select one of the following:

• Link
• Collapsible rich text
• Rich text

See Also

To Inherit information in a response hierarchy
Indenting response documents
Creating fields that inherit values
To create a field that inherits an entire document

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