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Autotab - is it possible?

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Does anyone know how to enable autotabbing between text fields for forms created using livecycle? I've tried a number of different scritps with no success.



Thanks in advance
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Hi

I presume you want to do something where once the field is "full", it automatically tabs to the next field.

I think you should be able to do this (although I haven't actually tried it) but adding a SetFocus call on the "Full" event. Note that the parameter for SetFocus is a String containing the som expression of the field you want to set focus to. You will also have to set the maximum number of characters in the field.

Howard

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Hi Howard,



After a few attempts & with some additional advice I've managed to crack it. Thanks..

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Can you share your script to do so???



Thanks!!!

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This may not be exactly what the original poster had in mind... But I needed to skip a field in the tab order. I put the following JavaScript in the enter event of the field I wanted skipped:



xfa.host.setFocus(xfa.resolveNode("next_field"));



where "next_field" is the name of the field the cursor should go to.



Hope that's helpful--



Kathryn

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Kathryn's example does work, but has the same problem as the FormCalc function does. The text will lose a character keystroke when the setFocus is applied.



The alternative way to do this in FormCalc is: xfa.host.setFocus("NextField")



Does anybody know how to get around the character loss?

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If you have a set character length for your entry this will work on the change event:



if (xfa.event.newText.length == 3){

xfa.host.setFocus(next);

}



where "3" is the length to autotab at and "next" is the name of the field to tab to.



To bad they made the Full event useless.



JaKoB