Grid focus 7.6 sr3

[Schulz]

Hello,

On a form with multiple grids, only the first grid added to the form gets the first row highlighted and selected. But how to get the N:th grid highlighted and selected on form load?

Kind regards

[Scott]

Try the following.  In a client-side javascript function associated with the form create :

function SetGridFocus(sGridName)
{
    var oGrid = eworkData.FieldByName(sGridName);
    if( oGrid )
        oGrid.FocusCurrentRow();    
}

Then call the function in the form's client extension properties like this:

OnLoad=SetGridFocus("myGridName")&Language=JScript

[Schulz]

Thank you Scott,

In our processes we rely quite heavy on the grid-focus script, which do the trick, but makes the initial load a bit jumpy (gui wise) and (in some more complicated examples) messes up the tab order. I just thought that with SR3 you could somehow control which grid (or grid order) focus was set in designer, e.g by tab order or a grid priority.

However, while I evaluate SR3 I find that the grid- focus works well as long as the intended grid is added to the form first, before other grids. If the grid I intend to set focus on is added later on, I need to rebuild the form, or use script for multiple focus. This behavior does have a slight funny effect on some of our forms, where a grid on the bottom of the form is selected, the only reason it been added first, while the one on top is just highlighted.

Kind regards

[Mark Beverley]

just a thought do you use the tab order for anything in the form?

if not then maybe put the grid you are interested at the top of the form tab order

[Schulz]

Only to mimic users workflow through the form, which is hard enough. Moving grids is possible in some cases but mostly will destroy the natural order of things.

I do welcome the change of the grid behavior, just expected it to be more configurable/flexible. Maybe that is something for the future?