Question

Discuss the differences between a form and a report. What characteristics make a form or report good (bad) and effective (ineffective)?

Answer 1

Difference between a form and a report:

Form:

In a form you can do different kind of things like add, delete or update.
In form you can do one operation at a time.
In forms only display data on the screen.
In forms you can modify the values entered by user.

Report:

Report are used to present data.
Report is only read only it cannot be modified.
Report is used to display whole records.
Reports are used for printing.
Reports can gather data from more than one source.

characteristics make a form or report good (bad) and effective (ineffective):

To make a good form you must follow some golden rules if you don't follow them your form becomes dull which is bad.

There should be four important components which makes a form or a report good.
1. It should be very clear, everything should be defined clearly there shouldn't be any confusion for the user.
2. It should be brief your form or report should be brief it should clear the user what it's saying but should be brief.
3. It should be clever what it means that your form or report should cleverly describe what it means so that it keep user focus intact and his work should be completed simultaneously,
4. it should be easy to understandable now this is the most important thing of a form or a report which makes it good and outshines

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