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The XForms Designer offers various tools and features to design, create, and edit user interfaces for web applications. It offers an intuitive interface that enables the creation of interactive XForms with minimal programming.
The XForms designer comprises a toolbar and the following viewing tabs.
- Toolbox: It displays the controls that are available for creating an XForm. You can use the Toolbox tab to add controls to the XForm.
- Insert: It displays the documents that can be used with or added to an XForm.
- Workspace: It displays the workspace that you are currently working in. For information about the Insert and Workspace tabs, see Inserting Related Documents and Exploring Workspace Contents.
- Design: It displays the Designer Area, which is a grid where you design an XForm. It offers various functions to align controls (UI elements) and format the XForm.
- Script: It displays the Script Editor where you can write custom code to modify XForm behavior.
- XML: It displays the XML Editor where you can work with XML definitions and XML data islands of the XForm.
- Messages: It displays all custom messages used in an XForm. You can also specify the custom messages and corresponding text identifiers to be provided with the XForm. Use the Insert button to add a message. To specify a different text identifier, select Create new and specify the text identifier in the dialog box that displays. The messages can be used in script as explained in the following API documentation.
Note: You can click
in the Toolbar, Insert, and Workspace tabs to close them. To again open the tabs, click 
in the title bar of the XForms designer and select the appropriate tab.
The Toolbar contains tools, such as Save, Preview, Import Data, Manage Models, and Show Anchor Bars, to work with the XForm.
Using XForms designer, you can design XForms, and define the properties and run-time behavior of each control in the XForm and of the XForm as a whole. For information about the features that can be used to design XForms in the XForms Designer, refer the topics under the Working with XForms section.