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Posted on by rutica

Hi all,

I have a long form with 3 buttons at the top:

Cancel
Save and Submit
Save

The OnSelect for the Save button is: SubmitForm(MyForm). It works fine, but after it saves, it takes the user to the top of the form, and they have to scroll down again to pick up where they left off. Is there a way to save the form and keep the user on the field where they were?

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WarrenBelz 156,566 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @rutica ,

The SetFocus function should assist here.

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Thanks for writing @WarrenBelz But my form has over 30 fields. How would I know where the user was when they clicked the Save button?
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@rutica ,

That is a challenge - you would need to set a Variable OnChange of each control (use a Text Variable with the control name), then a rather large Switch() statement going through all the possibilities. You will probably think again whether the complexity is work the outcome.
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Thanks again for writing @WarrenBelz .

Yes, that seems like a lot of work just to stop the focus from moving to the top after saving. 🙂
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@rutica ,

Yes it is - there is no "back" or "return" function as far a control focus goes. You coud just pick a control at the top, where the user will be "one click" away from the field they want
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@WarrenBelz :

You wrote: "You could just pick a control at the top, where the user will be "one click" away from the field they want"

True, but I don't know what field the user was on before they clicked Save. Maybe they were near the top, but maybe they had scrolled to the bottom. Oh well.