Copy form section to another view

[chazz1]

Is there a quick/easy way to copy a section of a form view to another?

I have created a number of sections for the emergency change form and now i want the same sections on my standard change form(with a couple tweaks). Am i stuck rebuilding the sections?

[Mark Stanger]

There's no easy way I know of that won't cause you problems migrating between instances. You're best off just taking the 5-10 minutes to recreate manually.

[raking08]

Is this still the case? I have a database using 6 base table extensions. I have 8 form sections per form with 2-10 fields in each. I would like to create once and done rather than creating each form from scratch.. its about 2 hours to layout due to complexity and slow performance.

Also if I had one main form, then maintenance across the 6 extensions would be easier.

[Henk5]

Struggling with the same thing. Looking at an implementation where about 25 different classes are used. All of them have a different form layout. To give users a cleaner and more recognizable GUI,   I want to create a section with generic fields for all Classes and then a more specific section per Class.

There must be a smart way to do this. Who can give us a clue?

[randrews]

i have tried a dozen different ways to copy form sections and have discovered that there is no good way to do it.. it is far better to just recreate it.