ArcPad 10 Find Features Has Extra Tabs Appearing (My Editable Shapefiles)

[SuzanneRoussie]

Just upgraded from ArcPad 7 to ArcPad 10 and now when I select the Find Features my two editable shapefiles appear as tabs and I cannot select the query tabs (See attached Image).  If I delete these two shapefiles from the layers the find features dialouge box goes back to normal.  Unfortunately these two layers are needed for editing in the field but i also need to be able to use the find features tool.  How do I fix this? Everything used to work in the last version. Also upgraded my desktop from version 9.3 to version 10.

Thanks ahead of time.

Sue

[GarethWalters]

Hi Suzanne,

These extra tabs are Query Forms that are generated automatically for users. If you open the shapefiles' APL file in ArcPad you will see under the forms that there is a Query form. You can delete it and then it will not appear in ArcPad.

I hope this helps.

[SuzanneRoussie]

Hi,

Forgive my inexperience with this, but how in ArcPad do I go about doing this.  I know how to add layers in but where exactly do I delete forms.  If I delete the *.apl file out of the directory it removes all my formatting symbology but does solve the query problem. Unfortunately I need my symbology otherwise I will be spending a lot of time every week redoing symbology every time I update the field computers.

Thanks.

[TimHopper · Accepted solution]

Suzanne,

You'll need to open the apl file in ArcPad Studio.

After you've opened the apl file in ArcPad Studio, you'll see that there is a <FORMS> branch in the tree.  Expand on <FORMS> and you'll find the <QUERYFORM>.  This is what Gareth was referring to.

[SuzanneRoussie]

Thanks for the help.  Now I know what is going on and have figured out how to fix all this.  We actually had custom forms too that ended up getting overwritten every time I prepared ArcMap files for ArcPad.  Thankfully I still had old copies of *.apl files on another laptop that I could transfer over.  Now that I know what is going on I just replace the *.apl files with my original ones and all is fine.  Thanks again.

[GarethWalters]

Hi Sue,

Could you mark this post as answered so other users can see it was helpful. Esri finally got implemented it (like the old forum) and its a great way for other users to sift through the forums.

Cheers,

Gareth

[SuzanneRoussie]

Marked it as answered.

Sue