Designing User Entry Forms For Manual Data Entry

  

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The WPF & Silverlight Designer provides the ability to quickly layout a data entry form. This walk-through will provide a workflow for laying out Labels and TextBoxes using the Grid control as the layout panel.

Manual data entry. This is a slow and laborious process in which data entry workers read information written on the paper forms and manually type it into a computer. Ideally, this kind of data entry should be performed by expert touch typists who are able to enter the data without looking at the keyboard or the screen.

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Figure 1 Completed Form

Figure 2 Data Entry Form Step One

Data
  1. Add a new UserControl to your project.
  2. Select the root Grid by clicking inside the UserControl.
  3. Add a column by clicking on the upper Grid rail in the desired location.
  4. Add three rows by clicking on the Grid rail in the desired location.
  5. Drop the required Label controls in the first column.
  6. Drop the required TextBoxes or other controls in the second column.
Tip

Notice that the column width is 137. The default width of a Label control when added from the ToolBox is 120. Making the target column wider than the Label makes it easy to initially drop the Label control on the design surface.

The row heights are also unimportant at this stage. Creating the rows taller than the Label or TextBox control makes it easy to create the controls.

Figure 3 Data Entry Form Step Two

  1. Multi-select the Label controls by CTRL+clicking each control on the design surface or use the Document Outline.
  2. Using the Properties Window set the following properties:
    1. Height to Auto
    2. Width to Auto
    3. VerticalAlignment to Center
    4. HorizontalAlignment to Stretch
    5. Margin to 3.5
Note

The Margin of 3.5 conforms to the spacing requirements documented here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511279.aspx#spacing

Figure 4 Data Entry Form Step Three

  1. Multi-select the TextBox controls by CTRL+clicking each control or use the Document Outline.
  2. Using the Properties Window set the following properties:
    1. Height to Auto
    2. Width to desired fixed value or Auto
    3. VerticalAlignment to Center
    4. HorizontalAlignment to Left or Stretch. If using fixed width use Left or if using Auto width use Stretch.
    5. Margin to 3.5
User

Figure 5 Resizing Grid Rows

    1. Hover the mouse over the left grid rail.
    2. The Grid Row size selector will appear.
    3. Click on Auto.
    4. Repeat for each row.

Figure 6 Data Entry Form Step Four

Figure 6 above shows the form with each row with controls set to Auto size.

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Figure 7 Data Entry Form Step Five

  1. Assign the Content property to each Label control.
  2. Set column one of the Grid to fixed size of 100.
    1. If you need to localize your application you can leave the Label column set to Auto size. Then when the Label text grows wider when a different language is used at runtime the Label column will automatically grow in size.
    2. If space is a consideration, the TextBlock control provides text wrapping. Using the same technique also set the MaxWidth property on the column. This will ensure that the column is never wider than this value. If the TextBlock text is wider than the MaxWidth it will wrap its text. Since the rows are Auto sized, when the text wraps that row's height will be increased to accommodate the wrapped text.
  3. Set column two of the Grid to Star size.
Note

The Grid row and column size selector does not allow changing of the numeric values for Fixed or Star sizes. Instead use the Properties Window or XAML editor.

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