Each time you make edits to the point shapefile's custom data entry form, you need to convert the form from an unwieldy 19-or-so page (tab) form into a svelte 4-page form.

First make a backup in case you screw up.  Copy and paste the file "DCR_trail_road_point.apl" and then rename the copy "DCR_trail_road_point_MULTIPAGE.apl".  You will be editing the original.  Open it in Wordpad.  

First you need to move the second tabs of the two-tab types (currently only Road Bridges and Road Culverts) to the almost-end.  Select the entire page with the Road Bridge Page 2 controls, cut and paste it just before the "Other" page at the end.  Do the same with the Road Culvert Page 2 and any other Page 2s that may have been added since this writing.

Now you need to delete most of the <PAGE ...> and </PAGE> tags.  You want to keep the ones for the first and last pages, and the <PAGE ...> tag directly after the first page, the </PAGE> tag directly before the "Other" page, and the set that separates the majority of the pages from the 2nd pages.  You should end up with 4 of each tag, separating all the content into PAGE1 (the first page), PAGE2 (the page with most of the controls), PAGE3 (the one with just the "second tab" controls) and PAGE4 (the "Other" controls - photo, field note, date, and time).  Rename the pages like this:

... (starting form tags)
<PAGE name="PAGE1" caption="Type">
... (controls)
</PAGE>
<PAGE name="PAGE2" caption="2">
... (controls)
</PAGE>
<PAGE name="PAGE3" caption="3">
... (controls)
</PAGE>
<PAGE name="PAGE4" caption="Other">
... (controls)
</PAGE>
... (ending form tags)

Save it, and you should be good to go.  If you screwed up, the form won't work correctly.

David.Kimball@state.ma.us
617-626-1447
