Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 12 1998
| 1 | Forms are similar to their paper counterparts. It can contain static information which is the same on each instance of the form or fields which are allowed to vary from one instance of the form to another. Fields can include extended textual information. |
| 2 | You can have several forms in a database, each with a separate purpose and representing a kind of template. The template is similar in purpose to the definition of the structure of a relational table. In notes, different forms can have completely different formats, fields and purpose. That is to say, you can have different kinds of records in the same Notes database. |