►FR◄ Form Opening & Closing Event

BenHayat

@ Support;

Could you please give us an ONOpen & OnClose Event Entry point when a form is opened & closed by a user, that we can run certain rules as a form is opened & closed?

This way, we can capture info as a certain forms are opened & closed (i.e. Agent's IP address, Date & Time, how many times, how long they stayed on the form and etc.).

Thanks!

BLOMASKY

Since a form is usually opened as the result of a process. (or it can be, so instead of having an action of "Create Object" which would open a form, have a process, that will do that), can't you handle the open stuff in this process.

On save, you have an option to have a process run after, so you could have this process capture more stuff.

How will this not work for you?

Now, what I REALLY REALLY want is an event when a TAB gets FOCUS. If I have multiple tabs open, I have no easy way to know when a user CLICKS on one of them. This would make my life a lot easier.

Bruce

BenHayat

BLOMASKY wrote
Since a form is usually opened as the result of a process. (or it can be, so instead of having an action of "Create Object" which would open a form, have a process, that will do that), can't you handle the open stuff in this process.

On save, you have an option to have a process run after, so you could have this process capture more stuff.

How will this not work for you?

Bruce

I'm doing it now as you describe, but it's much cleaner to implement an event just like any other tool.

pureist

Apart from:

the process which opened the form serving as the onOpen event handling method
onClose being partially covered by 'Run process after form is saved' if the form is set to close after save.

Don't you just need another setting 'Run process after form is closed' on the dialog where you add the Close button (and this would inherently also apply to when the X is used to close the form)?

It seems that a process running per a setting in the form dialog itself could somehow conflict with the process that opened the form as it might still be running.

This aside, I wonder if this can already be achieved by a bit of HTML in the form's Advanced settings.