Form Load Field Focus - How to Disable?

G24
Kilo Sage

When I open up a new browser tab and surf to a ServiceNow URL, if the filter navigator is open (not collapsed to the left), I want for the typing Cursor to end up in the Filter Navigator.  I do NOT want it to end up in the first field of whatever form I am surfing to.  See here:

 

FieldFocus.png

 

1) Is there a way that I can, on a SYSTEM-WIDE basis, stop the user's cursor from being taken from where I am typing in the filter navigator to the form, after the page fully loads?

 

2) Or is there a way that I can prevent that from happening JUST FOR ME, that is on a user preferences basis?

 

It's really frustrating when I am happily typing in a location to navigate to, and then suddenly the focus shifts to the form, and I start overwriting whatever text was in whatever field the system took me to... And then when I place the cursor BACK in the filter navigator and finish typing and hit the Enter key, then I have to deal with the question "Leave site?  Changes you made may not be saved. - Leave or Cancel?"

 

Thanks you for any assistance you may be able to provide on this.

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Marco0o1
Tera Sage

Hi @G24 ,

 

You can disable the focus on first field following the next instructions:

- Go to sys_properties table

- Look up for the glide.ui.focus_first_element element

- Change to false

Marco0o1_0-1693947904084.png

Then when you open a record in any table wont focus any element.

 

The only issue is for focus the filter element when load.

 

Hope that help you

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Marco0o1
Tera Sage

Hi @G24 ,

 

You can disable the focus on first field following the next instructions:

- Go to sys_properties table

- Look up for the glide.ui.focus_first_element element

- Change to false

Marco0o1_0-1693947904084.png

Then when you open a record in any table wont focus any element.

 

The only issue is for focus the filter element when load.

 

Hope that help you