Profile Form

A Profile Page is a kind of Form that is used as the default view when navigating to an existing record in netFORUM. Profile Forms have the following characteristics:

Profile Forms are used to provide for a rich view of information without launching a user directly into data-entry mode on a page with inputs and Save buttons.

The building blocks of Profile Forms are Profile Details. See that page for more information and links on the various kinds of Profile Details that make up a Profile Form.

Profile Form Diagram

The nearby image illustrates how various Toolkit components compose a profile form.

Next, here is the corresponding Toolkit metadata, color-coded to align with the same-colored elements in the picture above. Note that the detail form (named Individual Detail - (NF2) and circled in green in the nearby image) is a totally different form from the profile form itself. This detail form appears in netFORUM only as a detail form nested within the overall profile form.

Uses

There are three main uses of Profile Forms:

Substitute Form

See main article for best practices and guideline for working on and substituting profile forms.