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linp0001
December 2, 2021
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How to shift focus on Appian interface

  • December 2, 2021
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Hi there

I have an interface which has three barcode fields, what I am trying to do is that once I scanned the first field, the focus can be automatically move to the second "barcode" field, so I can continue scanning without need to click the second "barcode" field on the interface, so on with the third "barcode" field.

and also the similar thing with "Text" fields, once I type in the first "Text" field, then press "ENTER (new line character)", then the focus will move to the second "Text" field, so I can keep typing in without the need to click the field to move the focus.

Could you please help if you have the experience/knowledge about this?

Regards,

Lin

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mikes0011
mikes0011
Brainy
December 2, 2021

Appian forms support Tab operation; I'm not really sure what luck you'll have using that with a barcode reader (unless you can set it to submit a tab character following any successful scans), but it's trivially easy to do when hand-entering data into text fields via a keyboard at least.

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linp0001Author
December 2, 2021

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the information. so you mean it will probably working by configuring the scanner to add a tab character at the end of scan? but for text fields, can only press the tab key on the keyboard after finishing typing in all the data?

mikes0011
mikes0011
Brainy
December 2, 2021
so you mean it will probably working by configuring the scanner to add a tab character at the end of scan

It's worth a try at least.

for text fields, can only press the tab key on the keyboard after finishing typing in all the data

This has been relatively standardized "text field" behavior since before Appian even existed.  IE, pressing TAB goes to the next field, SHIFT+TAB goes to the previous field.

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