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======  Improving form layout ======

As we said earlier by default //**Aware**// IM generates forms in a top-down fashion – one attribute underneath the other one. If a form has many attributes this layout may be inconvenient – we may want to save vertical space by placing some attributes on the same row. We will show how to do this for the “Editing” form of the Member object. We will place the ''LastName'' attribute on the same row as the ''FirstName'' attribute.

Open the Member object for editing, expand the “Editing” form on the ''Form'' tab and double click on the ''Personal details'' form section to bring up the form section designer. Click on the  {{docs:icons:icon_form_insert_column.png?nolink&20}} icon to insert a new column. You will see the blank column appearing on the form section. Click on the cell representing the ''LastName'' attribute in the left column to select it. Now click on it again and without releasing the mouse button drag it to the right column opposite the ''FirstName'' attribute. You can see now that the ''LastName'' attribute is located in the same row as the ''FirstName'' attribute. Click on the “Save” button to save changes to the form section.

Now the ''LastName'' attribute for the ''Member activity'' tab on the editing form of the ''Member'' object will be shown in the same row as the ''FirstName'' attribute. We can make similar changes to the ''Payments'' and ''Personal details'' form sections of the ''Member'' object as well as to forms of various other objects.