'.requestFocus()' on a related tabpanel

Classic Servoy
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Hello,

I’m starting a methode for creating a new related record, displayed as list in a related tabpanel. The last function in the methode should be ‘.requestFocus()’ into the element on the tabpanel list, but it doesn’t work.
How can I set the cursor to a dataprovider element on a related tabpanel by methode?

Thank you for help, Thomas

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Let’s change that question into ‘what do you do now?’ :)

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Now I do

forms.[layout].[element].requestFocus();

but the mouse cursor is not in the dataprovider [element].

Thomas

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tgs:
Now I do

forms.[layout].[element].requestFocus();

but the mouse cursor is not in the dataprovider [element].

Thomas

You should do```
forms.[formName].elements[elementName].requestFocus();

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The best thing you can in these cases is to read the developer manual :)
Or use books like ‘JavaScript Pocket Reference’ etc.

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Hi Marcel,

you are right! I replayed not my correct code and sent it wrong, I’m sorry. Of course the code I do in my methode is

forms.[formName].elements[elementName].requestFocus();
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tgs:

forms.[formName].elements[elementName].requestFocus();

Still one period too much. :) Working code would look like this:

forms[formName].elements[elementName].requestFocus();
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oops apologies for that period :oops:

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Ok,

my code line is:

forms.settings_list_tab.elements.user_language.requestFocus();

The element ‘user_language’ on form ‘settings_list_tab’ belongs to the table ‘languages’. I display it in a related tabpanel on a record view form ‘settings_edit’ from table ‘settings’. On starting my methode from the form ‘settings_edit’ to create a related new record in the table ‘languages’, the mouse cursor don’t move to the dataprovider element ‘user_language’!

Thomas

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I am afraid you are mixing two things.

A dataprovider is what the element refers to.

Referrral, like this, can not be done through the dataprovider name.
Instead you need to set the name of the element.

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The dataprovider name is the same as the element name. I name my elements like the dataprovider, labels, buttons and so on…