Popup Form, can I have cursor start in a field?

BLOMASKY

Subject says it all. I would like the cursor to go to the 1st field in the form, so after the popup "pops" the user is ready to start typing and does not have to 1st select the attribute with the mouse.

Is there a trick to do this?

Thanks
Bruce

BenHayat

Subscribed!

pureist

Surely there has to be.

tford

I have a process with one line in it where the user is prompted to begin typing in the first field:

ENTER NEW Student USING 'New Student Prospect'

BLOMASKY

Evening Tom, Are you saying that the cursor starts in the field and you DON'T have to click on the attribute????

bruce

tford

Evening Tom, Are you saying that the cursor starts in the field and you DON'T have to click on the attribute????

Yes. Sorry I should have indicated this is V6 as I have no yet been able to convert my apps over to V7.

johntalbott

This appears to work the same in V7. Check the CRM sample app.

Go to Customers tab and select a customer
Click New Note, New Letter, etc

In the pop up window, the first field is highlighted and contains a cursor.

BLOMASKY

Humm, in my app, I have a form that has a button to popup a form with a single text field. I have to press TAB to get the text field to have focus.

It looks like the popup form (not the text field) has focus, then when I tab, cursor goes to the text field.

Bruce

BenHayat

BLOMASKY wrote
Humm, in my app, I have a form that has a button to popup a form with a single text field. I have to press TAB to get the text field to have focus.

It looks like the popup form (not the text field) has focus, then when I tab, cursor goes to the text field.

Bruce

Bruce, I have seen what you're describing and that's why I put "Subscribed" in my previous post, to see if there is a real solution. Like you said, the form gets the focus first.

tford

Humm, in my app, I have a form that has a button to popup a form with a single text field. I have to press TAB to get the text field to have focus.

It looks like the popup form (not the text field) has focus, then when I tab, cursor goes to the text field.

I did some testing and ENTER NEW does position to first attribute while EDIT does not position to the first field.