Change the ownership of a form from any current owner to any new owner using the copyform command. There are two forms of syntax, one without the –i flag, which copies the forms from a database to a file. The next form, using the –i flag, copies the forms from the text file into a database. To change the ownership, issue the first form of the command under the current ownership, and the second form under the new ownership, as shown in the example that follows.

Assume the user john wants to transfer ownership of the forms named customers and parts in the database mydb to the user dba. The following commands, entered at the operating system prompt, accomplish this:

For a complete description of the flags and parameters for this command, see the copyform entry in the Command Reference Guide.

At this point, there are two copies of each form, one owned by the user john and the other owned by the user dba. In the usual case, John’s forms are no longer needed and can be removed in Visual Forms Editor.