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I am a new user on this forum, but I currently work at the local IT Support for my facility. I was wondering if anyone had a tutorial video or walk through for learning the ropes on VFE. Thank you in advance.
Posted : June 3, 2014 6:54 am
The VFE application has a basic tutorial under the Help drowdown menu within the application.
Posted : June 3, 2014 9:57 pm
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Thank you so much for your help! 🙂
Posted : June 4, 2014 2:03 am
I was brand new to it last year and I found my biggest help was looking at forms already created, whether its from the VFE sample forms that come with VFE, forms people post on here, your practices existing forms, and taking the code within them and applying them in new situations. For example open a complex form in Centricity, click around, notice the triggers, the time when certain thinks are clicked the documentation. Then try to find what makes it work in VFE.
The classes they offer help also, but jump straight to the advanced one, you'll cover the beginner stuff doing the VFE tutorials.
Posted : June 5, 2014 11:22 pm
I would like to ask a follow-up question to this thread. Is there a master document or help that gives a more detailed description on MEL against CPS tables? Example: how do I take a Custom Order List and present the text in a dynamic listbox? I have seen examples using getfield(). But is there a 'users' guide that describes the semantics of the MEL language? I guess I am asking if there is similar book to the " 'C' Programming Bible". 
Posted : June 23, 2014 7:59 am
Jim Poulos said:
I would like to ask a follow-up question to this thread. Is there a master document or help that gives a more detailed description on MEL against CPS tables? Example: how do I take a Custom Order List and present the text in a dynamic listbox? I have seen examples using getfield(). But is there a 'users' guide that describes the semantics of the MEL language? I guess I am asking if there is similar book to the " 'C' Programming Bible".
Did you ever find anything that helped you?
Posted : August 18, 2014 3:43 am
No. I was hoping that the CHUG community would provide some insight on how they became experts at making forms. To date, I have done as previous poster stated, looking at existing forms and just trying to figure things out on my own. Very difficult and frustrating doing it this way.
Posted : August 18, 2014 3:54 am
I am trying to gather information and training. If I find anything useful I will post it back to the list.
Posted : August 18, 2014 3:56 am
This what I started out using. It doesn't have EVERYTHING, because there is ton of stuff that is just undocumented.
Posted : August 18, 2014 4:22 am
Mike:
Do you have the software that they refer to? Any idea where I can get it??
Posted : August 18, 2014 4:59 am
www.visualformeditor.com
you have to register to download it
Posted : August 18, 2014 5:01 am
In CEMR I still find using the help useful there. Help > Help Topics then type in "MEL" and you'll get a laundry list of examples, but from there you can read up on a lot of different MEL and see examples.
Posted : August 19, 2014 12:13 am
