I have a command button placed in Search Mode that changes the form to Add Data Mode using the following code that works fine:

vNav = @SelectTreeItem("Search Menu!Switch to Add Data Mode (Ctrl-F6)")

This code also works:

vNav = @SelectTreeItem(@Application + "!Forms!Add Data!DataBase!FormName")

However, if I add @Exit to the next line to either of the above code (I’m only using one or the other) to close the current form, it opens the form in Add Data Mode but puts a dashed line around the first LE entered and forces you to either click inside the element or click anywhere on the form in order to input data into the LE.

If I use the New Button Menu Interface “Add New Records” button it works great. It closes the search form, opens the form in Add Data Mode and you can just start typing data into the LE.

For this particular form I’d like to have an Add New Records command button on the form and not force the user to use the  New Button Menu Interface for this function.  I do want the New Button Menu Interface available for all other functions.

I don’t want to have to click inside the element or click anywhere on the form in order to input data.  Any suggestions on how I can get the curser into the LE as soon as the form opens?

Thanks

Thanks for the quick reply. This is what’s happening  “may therefore leave focus on the menubar instead of on the Add tab you just opened”.

The Add New Records button is easy to get to as you stated. It may not become an issue. I sense that adding a new record will be the most used function, and was trying to simply make an Add New Records button in close proximity to where the other buttons and LE’s are located.

In reading over the 2 1 ButtonMenus.pdf, it simply stated that the corresponding menu tree command for Add New Records is: Search Menu!Switch to Add Data Mode (Ctrl-F6) and assumed that it would perform the same function and in the same way.

Thanks for your help.

I guess what I meant was that they would first be searching but when finished would most likely add new data.

I’ll see how it goes.

Thanks