How to remove the automatic focus of a button on Agentry Transaction screen.

[sudhiranjan_lenka]

Hello Experts,

We are customizing Work Manager-6.2 for one of our client.

Whenever we open a Transaction screen, the system sets the focus automatically on Finish button on the Transaction screen.

Sometimes user presses the enter button on the Transaction screen, which finishes the transaction with all default values.

Is it possible to change the focus on to the Cancel button or the Enter key would not have any impact on the Transaction screen? 

We use WPF client having version -70.7.1.

Thanks,

Sudhir.

[resmi_sadasivan2]

Hi Sudhir,

You could verify the Initial Focus settings from the screen definition. The Initial Focus can specify a field on the selected detail screen that will have the initial focus when the navigation step displays the screen set.

Thanks

Resmi

[sudhiranjan_lenka]

Hi Resmi,

Thank you so much for you reply!!

I have already set the initial focus to one of the field in the Transaction screen but still focus of Enter key is set to the Finish button.

I Would like to let you know, when I press the Tab key on the screen then focus gets changed to different fields on the screen but it does not change the focus on buttons(inbuilt Transaction buttons).

If any body could help me, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Sudhir.

[former_member265714]

Hi Sudhir,

I do not believe that you can remove the focus button. It is usually on the next step in the transaction.

Subash

[mark_pe]

Hi Sudhir,

I have read your comments and question above, do you know that in all applications design one of the other key mobility criteria is the use of "less" buttons or "pressing" of buttons.

You will notice that in designing custom work, a lot of people will complain that they had to press 1 extra button.

What you are proposing above is that the user will now tab from Cancel to Finish each time they will process this transaction, right?  This may have a negative impact on efficiency (another button to press).

Let me give you an example. I just replied to your statement here. Are you proposing that I would need to tab from cancel to Add Reply just to respond?

In the picture above, you want to make sure that the focus is always on the key action that will simplify the process (it's a bad idea to put it on cancel - last thing you need is the enter key - focus - is on cancel in any application like Outlook email - you wrote 20 lines then you accidentally enter or canceled it).

My best suggestion: If your customer is having issues on pressing buttons is for you to have Validation rule tied to your transaction. This is the reason for validation rules in Agentry and how you should utilize this feature.

In essence, you will create a validation rule that will only fire when they have not change any data (or they are still using default values tied to your one property) to warn them if they are sure they want to continue (as a warning not hard error). This is a better design.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Mark Pe
SAP Platinum Support Engineer