How can new court forms be added to QuickLaw?

 

You can purchase OmniForm at www.OmniForm.com and create new forms, as well as modify the forms that you have. We have tested OmniForm Premium 5, the latest version of Omni at the time of this writing, and it worked fine with QuickLaw on a Windows 2000 system.

 

To add new forms (or edit existing ones) you have a couple of hurdles:

 

Naming the fields uses the same format and names for the data that form letters use with Word. For the most part, the names of the fields correspond to the names of the case information data, party list data (or names), or case date date in QuickLaw that you want to appear. Click on the hyperlinks listed in the previous sentence for a complete list of the codes to use, how to use them,  and how to add new ones.

 

In short, each "field" on the form has properties, one of which is a name property. QuickLaw opens up the form in Omni, then cycles through the entire "Fields" collection and stuffs data into every field whose name it recognizes.

 

Adding a new form to QuickLaw:

Getting new forms into the program is a bit trickier. The forms are imbedded in a table in QuickLaw using an OLE field. The only thing is we neglected to give you a way to edit the table in QuickLaw. You will either have to open up QLData.MDB with a full version of MS Access 2.0 or attach to it from a newer Access database using the QLOwner login described elsewhere on this web site, and edit the table called tblForms. Simply insert the new form into this table, along with a description, using the other forms as a guide. It would probably be easiest to copy and past one of the other form's OLE fields, open it up (double-click to load OmniForm), and then edit that form the way you want your new one (or paste in a form you already made). Or, you can right click on the OLE field, pick OmniForm from the list, and add the data to the OLE field that way.