Managing TAB order in forms

[Jeremy Robb]

Forgive the new guy, but I have a question. We would like to change the tab order within forms from vertical to horizontal, but I don't see where a tabindex attribute can be assigned? I tried adding it to the variable attribute, but it didn't work. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[ccajohnson]

Activating the tabs is as simple as selecting the Tab Icon that is in the upper right hand side of the screen next to the arrows. This is a personal preference, so users will have to be trained as to what this button does.

To change the order of tabs, you need to right click on a tab section and select Personalize > Related Lists. This will allow you to change the order of the tabs to your liking.

Let me know if this is what you are looking for,

[CapaJC]

I don't think the tab order of fields in a form can be customized, unfortunately. If it is, the capability is hidden pretty well.

[CapaJC]

I just confirmed w/ our UI team that there is no way to affect tab order without some sort of hacky client script.

He said it would make for a nice optional user preference some day, to "tab through forms like how we read basically everything, left to right (or RTL in some languages), then down"

[Jim Coyne]

It can be done, but not very pretty. For each "line" on the form, you need a set of |- begin_split -|, |- split -| and |- end_split -| dividers. Take a look at the Incident form on demo014 now.

At least it is an out-of-cloud solution 🙂