Configure form layout to change what appears on the form. You can perform tasks like changing what fields are visible, embedding lists, and adding sections and annotations.

1. Navigate to a form.
2. Click the context menu icon () and select Configure > Form Layout.
3. Using the slushbucket, select the fields and the order in which you want them to appear.
   Available items that appear in green followed by a plus (+) sign represent related tables. To access fields on these tables, use dot-walking.

   

   In UI16, Form Layout is not responsible for the order of the Additional Comments and Work Notes fields. For more information on how to determine the order of these fields, see Customize activities.

4. Click Save.
   Warning: Do not add the same field to more than one section of a form unless the field displays read-only data. Having two or more instances of an editable field can cause data loss and prevent the proper functioning of UI and data policies.

You can configure related lists to appear on forms and in hierarchical lists.

1. Open the form.
2. Click the form context menu icon and select Configure > Related Lists.
3. Using the slushbucket, select the related list to display on the form.
4. Click Save.
   Related lists appear at the bottom of the form.

Highlight form elements by displaying blocks of colored text or separators between form elements.

1. Navigate to a form.
2. Click the context menu icon () and select Configure > Form Layout.
3. Under Form view and section, select a section.
4. In the Available list, double-click * Annotation to move it to the Selected list.
   The Annotation Details section appears.

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5. Place it above the field to annotate.
6. In Annotation Details, select the type of annotation. The available types of annotations include Info Box Blue, Info Box Red, Line Separator (any text you add appears beneath the line), Section Details, Section Separator, and Text.

   

7. Select either Plain Text or HTML for the data type and enter the annotation in the text box. All valid HTML tags are supported.
   For example, select the Text annotation type, the HTML data type, and enter <span style="color:red">Select the primary location:</span>. The text appears red on the form.
8. Click Save.

Users can toggle annotations on a form in UI16 and UI15. The glide.ui.show_annotations user preference controls the visibility of annotations for each user.

1. Navigate to a form.
2. Perform the appropriate action for your version of the UI.

   UI16	Click the more options icon () to see the annotations icon. The icon is light gray and cannot be toggled when no annotations are available.
   UI15	Click the annotation toggle icon () to show or hide annotations.

Create sections on forms to help group related fields together.

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Users can expand or collapse form sections to show or hide the fields they need. If you have tabs enabled, each form section appears on a separate tab. The default Change Request form is an example of a form with multiple sections as shown in the following image.

1. Right-click the form header and select Configure > Form Layout.
2. In the Form view and section area below the slushbucket, click New in the Section list.
3. In the Section caption field, give the new section a title, then click OK.
4. Select a form section name and click the up or down arrow to change the section order.
   Note: The caption for the first section on the form becomes the form title.
5. Add fields to the new section using the slushbucket.
6. Click Save when you are finished.
   The new section appears on the form with the fields you selected. If you do not add any fields to a section, the section stays empty.

   If you want to delete the form section later, do the following:

   1. Navigate to System UI > Form Sections.
   2. Filter for the table that contains the section you want to delete. For example, the Incident table. The name of the form section to be deleted is displayed in the Caption field.
   3. Select the check box beside the form section to delete, and then select Delete from the Actions on selected rows menu.
   4. Click OK to confirm the deletion.

Change the place where fields split on a form by moving the split section indicators in a slushbucket.

1. Navigate to a form.
2. Click the context menu icon () and select Configure > Form Layout.
3. Move any of the following split section indicators:
   • |- begin_split -|
   • |- split -|
   • |- end_split -|
4. Click Save.

Tabbed forms offer a useful way to make forms and related lists take up less space by reducing the scrolling that must be done to navigate the form.

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Form sections and related lists are tabbed separately, each with their own tab line. A user always sees the first form section. All sections after that can be tabbed. Tabs are enabled by default for new instances.

Tabbed forms are enabled by default for new instances. A system user preference with the name tabbed.forms specifies whether the tabbed UI is used by default for all users. Users can change this preference as described in this procedure.

1. Click the gear icon in the banner frame.
2. Perform the appropriate action for your version of the UI:

   Option	Description
   UI16	Select the Forms tab and enable Tabbed forms.
   UI15	Enable Tabbed forms.

   An option is enabled when the switch appears green and is toggled to the right.

You can embed lists within a form. When a list is embedded in a form, any changes made to the contents of the list are saved when the form is saved.

1. Select a record from the list.
2. Right-click the form header and select Configure > Form Layout.
   The slushbucket shows the available fields and the lists that can be embedded in the form. Lists appear in red at the bottom of the Available list.
3. Select a list and move it to the Selected column.
4. Use the up and down arrow buttons to position the list in the form.
5. Click Save.
   Lists adjust to fit the frames of the adjacent fields.

   

You can configure the indicator for customer updates, which are changes that update sets, scripts, service catalog items, and other configuration tables track.

1. Navigate to User Administration > User Preferences.
2. Perform one of the following actions.

   Option	Description
   Enable the indicator for all administrators	Set the owned_by_indicator.form preference to true.
   Enable the indicator for an individual administrator	Make sure the owned_by_indicator.form system user preference is set to false. Create a user preference with the following values: Name: owned_by_indicator.form User: Select the administrator for which to enable the preference. Value: true

Add a chart to a form to show your users graphical data related to the form. For example, you could show an incident SLA-related chart on the Incident form so your users can see how well service level agreements are being met.

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Note: The following report types are not supported on forms: List, Pivot, Multilevel Pivot, Calendar, and Single Score.

1. Navigate to System UI > Forms.
2. Select the form you want to configure.
3. Click the context menu icon () and select Configure > Form Layout.
4. Using the slushbucket, select * Chart.
5. Enter a Label in the chart details.
6. Click Save to return to the form.
7. Click Configure chart.
8. Select a chart in the Report field and configure other options as desired.
9. Click Update.