Im looking for advice or recommendations on the best method to allow users to enter and edit data from a database using primarily the computer keyboard. Currently the default forms and grids I have developed are very “mouse heavy” when it comes to navigating, editing and entering data.
Anyone have any tips on how to make a form/grid that allows for easy keyboard editing and entering?
Thanks!
As far as forms are concerned you can easily tab between fields and press buttons using short cut keys and submit using enter .
The real issues are grids. Grid navigation (paging) can be done via keyboard but row selection is still mouse driven.
Thank you for the reply.
Yes I was hoping to get the hot keys to work, but I can’t seem to get them to.
Pressing enter won’t submit and I can’t get “Add” or Insert hotkey to work.
I’m using a master form with a detail and would like the detail form to add items using a hot key.
I’m on a Mac, using Chrome… I wonder if it’s a browser issue?
Just an update… I am able to get the Hotkeys working… I had it set to “Tab” on the enter key and it was interfering with the default hotkeys.
This has made things better, while I don’t see a way to do very quick data entry like excel in Scriptcase… this should get me by for now.