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4. Set the tab order for any fields that appear after the grid of repeating fields.
5. Click OK in the Set Tab Order dialog box.
Notes
• Buttons are not included in the default tab order. To include buttons in the tab order, use the
options in the Set Tab Order dialog box. Buttons on tab controls can be included in the tab
order this way as well.
• If you have added a panel control to the layout, when you press the Tab key, you can
navigate only to objects on the front-most panel. If you want to automate navigation to
another panel, use the Go To Field script step and specify a target field that is on the panel
you want to bring to the front. See
Selecting and working with objects on panel controls.
• If you have added a popover to the layout, you can tab between fields in the popover, but
you must open the popover first (by clicking the popover button or by tabbing to the popover
button, then pressing the Space bar). You cannot tab into or tab out of a popover. See
Selecting and working with objects on popovers.
• To specify whether it’s possible to move to the next field using the Enter key or Return key
as well the Tab key, see
Setting the keys for exiting a field.
• If a web viewer is included in the tab order, then you can tab into it and continue tabbing
through links and fields within the web viewer, the same way as in a web browser. You
cannot control the tab order within a web viewer, but after you tab from the last link or field in
a web viewer, the tab order continues as defined in the FileMaker
Pro layout. If Allow
interaction with web viewer content is cleared in the Web Viewer Set Up dialog box, then
you cannot tab into the web viewer.
Allowing or preventing entry into fields
You can allow or prevent entry into a field. For example, you can restrict entry into a field containing
a
serial number, so the field can't be modified. You can set separate Browse and Find mode data
entry options, which would allow you to permit finding serialized numbers even though they cannot
be entered.
If you allow entry into a field, you can also control whether the entire contents of the field is selected
when you click or tab into the field in Browse mode or Find mode. Otherwise, FileMaker
Pro places
the insertion point after the last character in the field.
To set the repeating field tab order to Do this
Tab through the first repetition of each
different repeating field, followed by the
second repetition of each different
repeating field, and so on.
Click in the upper-left field, which causes the arrow to
blink. Then, in order, click each additional field in the first
repetition. When you’ve completed the pattern for the first
repetition, click the upper-left blinking field again, and
FileMaker
Pro completes the tab order for the remaining
repetitions of the repeating fields.
Tab through every repetition in the first
field, followed by the second field, and
so on.
Double-click the first occurrence of the repeating field.
FileMaker
Pro fills in the numbers for all the repetitions.
Then, double-click the first occurrence of the next
repeating field to get the next series of tab-order numbers,
and so on.