Hi, I am able to set focus to a particular textbox onload of a form u

For the paragraph component here's an example

var settingfocus = document.getElementsByName("plainTextControl_"+id);
settingfocus[0].focus()

That works like a charm! Thank you Eduardo!

What would be the syntax for a rich text control; the above code does not work for rich text fields

Eduardo, this code worked fine for plain forms where there are not much fields. But I faced the following behaviors:

1) In a form having lots of controls (around 30) - the code didn't bring the focus to the intended textarea.
2) In a form which is assigned to a group - when a person picks up the task, the following error message is shown in an alert
"An exception was thrown by the custom event "load" with rule "{var settingfocus = document.getElementsByName(\\"plainTextControl_\\"+\\"requestComments\\");settingfocus[0].focus()}"."
Could it be because before the person accepts the task (by hitting the Accept button on top of the page), the form is readonly and so the element is not available for focus?

Any workarounds available?

That worked for me even with 30 components but it could be that you are facing a race conditions (the components are not available yet when the code is executed).

My suggestion would be:

1. Switch to this other syntax

$("#plainTextControl_fd_component_" + window.FormDesigner.runtimeNamespace + id).get(0).focus();

2. This means your line will now be

$("#plainTextControl_fd_component_" + window.FormDesigner.runtimeNamespace + "requestComments").get(0).focus();


3. If the issue persists wrap it in a setTimeout to delay its execution. This example dealys it for 50ms

setTimeout(function() {$("#plainTextControl_fd_component_" + window.FormDesigner.runtimeNamespace + "requestComments").get(0).focus();}, 50);

Thank you Eduardo!