Notebooks

The notebook element enables you to easily organize and develop groups of panels for updating and creating information in a database. Notebooks are similar to wizards because there are many panels of information, organized in a table of contents. Notebooks differ from wizards because the panels are not displayed in a predefined sequence. The user can select and view any panel from the table of contents at any time. Notebooks are used for sets of information that are not necessarily sequential. The notebook is also used to update information created in a wizard, because users might want to skip directly to the panel containing the information they want to change. This feature is not appropriate for situations that require branching in the task flow because of its parallel, non-sequential nature. For example, a notebook is not appropriate for a task that requires changing subsequent forms based on earlier choices.

An image of a notebook follows:

Screen capture of a notebook