What You Will Need ArcUser Online An unzipping utility such as WinZip A simple customization to an ArcPad form greatly increased the efficiency of house inspections and allowed the author's consulting firm to collect more accurate data more rapidly and remain under budget for a project. This tool can easily be added to existing ArcPad forms following the instructions in this article. Do It Yourself The following instructions guide the reader through the process of installing the fill-formfrom-history tool in an ArcPad form. Download frmhis.zip from ArcUser Online (www. esri.com/arcuser) and unzip it. This archive contains the sample data and application that illustrate the process of adding the fill-formfrom-history tool. Step 1: Add a history Combobox control in the form. 1. Open the APL file for your form in ArcPad Studio. 2. Double-click the tag to display the form. 3. Click on the Controls palette and drag a Combobox control over to the form. Name the combo box History. //*Configuration Section -- Start* 4. Add a label control and label the combo box History. 5. Double-click on the combo box and click the Events tab to bring up the Control Properties dialog box. 6. Scroll to the onselchange event and add the following event script: fill_form (ThisEvent.Object.ListIndex);. 7. Click OK and choose Form > Form Properties from the form's dialog box. Click the Events tab, select the onload event, and reference the draw history script draw_history();. 8. Select the onok event to reference the script save_history () script. Step 2: Reference the JavaScript file. Its powerful features make JavaScript an ideal scripting language for this application. If VBScript is used instead, the code will be much longer and more complicated. 1. Copy the parcel.js file (which was included in the sample dataset) to the same folder that contains the shapefile and APL file for your project. 2. In the APL file, double-click on the