Managing Form Groups in Soopio

In Soopio, form groups are logical entities that help visualize an object’s data and guide the user through the application’s forms. This guide will help you understand how these form groups work and how they can be managed using the Form Designer.

Accessing Form Designer

You can access the Form Designer from the Object Type’s Actions dropdown menu under the Form Designer action. The Form Designer allows you to add, remove, or change the position of various groups and properties within those groups. Please note that any changes made in the Form Designer are published immediately.

Creating Form Groups

In the Form Designer, you can create a new form group by clicking the “Add Group” button. You can then add properties to these groups and change the order of the properties within those groups.

Editing Form Groups

To edit a form group, simply click on the edit button next to the group name. Here, you can change the group name, add or remove properties, or change the order of the properties within the group.

Displaying Form Groups

For the form groups to have any effect, you have to set up the object type in a particular way. Firstly, in the object type editation, on the Forms tab, you have to choose a form variant for adding or editing the object that supports the foreign groups, which is Custom one page or Tabbed. Secondly, on the Displaying tab, there is a setting called “Show properties as”. This must be set to Groups on one page or Groups as tabs in order to achieve full effect. If you choose Custom list, then the object renderer will only take the first defined object form group and the properties assigned to this group. This means that you can easily choose and order the properties which will be then shown on the object detail page and not leave the rendering to the automatic displaying of all accessible properties.