Patent ID: 6959414

Claim:
A form editing method of editing composite form template data to be synthesized with field data, the composite form template data being obtained as a combination of component form template data, said method comprising the steps of: a component form template data generation step, of generating component form template data including a plurality of field attribute data, each field attribute data defining an attribute of the field data, wherein a page of the composite form template data comprises a plurality of component form template data; a form data storing step, of storing composite form template data in a form data storage means, the composite form template data containing a plurality of the component form template data generated in said component form template data generation step in a predetermined order in one page; and a field list display step, of displaying each field attribute data of the plurality of component form template data, which is contained in a page of interest of the composite form template data stored in the form data storage means, with each serial number as a list; wherein the component form template data defines a field order of the plurality of field attribute data contained in the component form template data; and wherein said field list display step further comprises the steps of: (a) loading, as component form template data of interest, one of the component form template data contained in the composite form template data of one page in the predetermined order; (b) incrementing the serial number in accordance with the field order of the field attribute data contained in the component form template data of interest loaded in the step (a); and (c) displaying the field attribute data contained in the component form template data of interest and the serial number incremented in step (b).