How to shift focus on Appian interface

RE: How to shift focus on Appian interface

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:53:43 GMT

[quote userid="48700" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/22668/how-to-shift-focus-on-appian-interface/88609#88609"]Appian can't integrate javacript functions?[/quote]

The simplest answer is "no" - you will need to learn about and work within the capabilities of the SAIL interface framework. In a text field the behavior of the "Enter" character is to cause the value of the field to be set (it executes the "unfocus" behavior even if the field hasn't been unfocused); the only keystroke I know of that will jump to a new input field is the standard TAB.

RE: How to shift focus on Appian interface

linp0001 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:49:57 GMT

when did the similar thing on other Web development platform, I can use the javascript to do this by using the text field event "onkeypress", check if the "New Line" (Enter) character input, then move the focus to any other field with function "focus()". Appian can't integrate javacript functions?

RE: How to shift focus on Appian interface

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:35:46 GMT

[quote userid="48700" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/22668/how-to-shift-focus-on-appian-interface/88607#88607"]so you mean it will probably working by configuring the scanner to add a tab character at the end of scan[/quote]

It's worth a try at least.

[quote userid="48700" url="~/discussions/f/user-interface/22668/how-to-shift-focus-on-appian-interface/88607#88607"]for text fields, can only press the tab key on the keyboard after finishing typing in all the data[/quote]

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.

RE: How to shift focus on Appian interface

linp0001 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:33:04 GMT

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?

RE: How to shift focus on Appian interface

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:26:08 GMT

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.