Have Entry Field in Form NOT in Tab Order

BLOMASKY

I want to have a field on a form that is NOT on the tab order (in other words, they can NOT tab into it). They have to click on the field to enter data.

Is this possible?

Thanks
Bruce

Jaymer

you could probably add JS to the field in front to set the .focus to the appropriate field, thus skipping the mystery field.

fname: [ ] onblur="goto lname"
init: [ ]
lname: [ ]

this would only work for forward TABs thru the fields. Shift-TAB would allow into 'init' and Shift-TAB from fname would go to 'lname'

aware_support

Not sure if it will work, but have you tried putting -1 into the tab order field?

BLOMASKY

it does NOT allow a - to be entered.

Bruce

aware_support

Try the following script - note the script should be attached to the attribute itself:

markup.attr("tabindex") = -1

Jaymer

I actually thought this had worked for me, but I must have been wrong.

Browser console reports this when the Form starts:
Exception running script for attribute EIN of object Inventory ReferenceError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment

johntalbott

Jaymer wrote
I actually thought this had worked for me, but I must have been wrong.

Browser console reports this when the Form starts:
Exception running script for attribute EIN of object Inventory ReferenceError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment

The exception is due to a syntax error. It should be:

markup.attr("tabindex", -1)

Jaymer

this does not work for me.

I don't get a console error, but my Inspector code shows: tabindex="0"
after this runs.
I output a message via console.log so I know this code is executing.

I have attached this to the "script" property on a field on a form

johntalbott

As mentioned by Jaymer, markup doesn't work.

There are a few ways to do it. Here is one of them.

Init Script of field
field.m_config.tabOrder="-1"

Jaymer

OK, submitted by @idpsteve, here's a way to do it in Form Render Script.

$("input[id='zTotalPaid']").attr('tabindex','-1');
$("input[id='zTotalInvoiced']").attr('tabindex','-1');
$("input[id='TotalAmount']").attr('tabindex','-1');
$("input[id='fDolRemain']").attr('tabindex','-1');
$("input[id*='fLastBillDate']").attr('tabindex','-1');

Jaymer

If you're interested in this, I'd suggest an email to Support.
Should be a simple change to allow the already-existing Tab Order property to allow a negative # to be entered.

johntalbott

Yep. That's one of the other ways.

aware_support

Watch out for the next build - it will allow entering -1