[Solved] Easy way to indicate non-Parkable fields on a Form?

Jaymer

TLDR; Use a Presentation Rule to gray the field, and use a RenderScript to set tabindex=-1. The field is already set to Calculated, so you can't change it.

here's a simple form with 9 fields - but the circled ones are calculated fields.
Screen Shot 2020-01-05 at 1.24.56 AM.png
If you drop these fields on the form, then you realize that Aware allows the cursor to just tab thru all 9 fields, what are you to do?
And the user doesn't get any feedback that a field is "Calculated" in the above form, so he can type into the field and nothing happens. Not intuitive as to whats happening.

In reality, you'd need to change the 5 cells to HTML cells, and re-type the field <<Contract.TotalPaid>>.
Thats not "real hard", more annoying. The last field is done this way. (and ultimately is a Fail due to a bug - see next post)

Is that what most of you would do?
I'm thinking an easy STYLE change would color the field blue so it didn't stand out.
And also code could set the Tabstop to 0.
Thats almost more work than just editing the cells.
Of course, to do HTML cells you have to actually use columns (and sometimes the Form designer breaks/is annoying when you have columns).

Whats your solution?

Jaymer

well, adding this to the field "Script" property did nothing: markup.attr("tabindex", 0) or markup.attr("tabindex", -1). Cursor still stops on the fields.
(per Have Entry Field in Form NOT in Tab Order)

And, I forgot I turned this in as a bug long ago. That last field won't display correctly. An HTML cell messes up because I have the "Label Above" on the cell.
You can see the error:
Screen Shot 2020-01-05 at 1.43.55 AM.png

Jaymer

UPDATE

You can see here, I found an easy way to color the fields to give some indication to the user that these fields are different.
An example of this is seen in the CRM, Customer Mobile Edit form.
For some reason, they decided to color Mandatory Fields YELLOW (even though they already have a RED * )

So, on the Form, I added a simple Presentation STYLE rule, and set the background color.
After doing that a few times, it makes more sense to set that as a CLASS, so all of these fields can be changed App-wide with just an edit to the CSS file.
Having trouble doing this, so I made a post about that issue.

So,
1) we CAN give a visual indication that the field is calculated,
2) We CANNOT yet set the tab order to -1 to prevent tabbing into [now solved]

Screen Shot 2020-01-06 at 2.55.57 AM.png

Jhstephenson

Jaymer, could they be put on the form as HTML?

Jaymer

jim
the 1st 2 posts in this thread talk about an "html" option - no joy

Jaymer

thanks to @idpsteve, he submitted this code.
works great in achieving the desired "-1" into tabindex.

this code is for the picture in the OP:

$("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');