1) Set active textbox after the page is opened (may be property on the page?)
2) Set text box focus dynamically from AL (e.g. based on scanned barcode in one textbox, the focus moves to filed A or B based on the value, where user continues in entering the related data). This could be e.g. done through CurrPage.FieldName.SetFocus()
Setting focus helps partner to create easy and stable dataflow on the page for the enduser, which could be dynamic.
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I was hoping to see some movement on this requested item. This is very important to our business and the workaround is causing issues. Please consider this soon for your roadmap.
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We have the exact same problem for scanning and for other user requirements.
this is very important

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This feature is a must have
By the look of the comments, nothing has been done on this issue for years
It also looks like this was standard functionality but was removed?
I will now have to commission your competitors platform as they have fixed this issue with multiple solutions
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Voted for and let's hope it gets a higher priority, as I have a similar problem and an AL property to solve it would be great and easy to use afterwards.
The only pushback I see would be that if we set a focus the keyboard will pop up on most tablets/mobiles and that will take half the screen. But that's the purpose, so we can use scanners without users tapping by hand, if you don't set the focus you don't get the keyboard, so I don't have a problem with that.
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As far as I can tell I managed to get it to work on the web client, however in tablet client it is blocked by the platform most likely so that it won't go out of the iFrame.
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@Simon > the problem is, that we are using the jQuery to do that, but from unknown reason it is totally killing the Universal App. In Browser all is ok, in Universal App there are exceptions which kills the client - the client freeze and other side-effects. I communicated this with PG and answer was that I am not supposed to leave my iFrame of my addin... :-{
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This is one of my most missed capabilities from my decade developing in the classic client.
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You can implement this yourselves in the WebClient
1. Create ControlAddin (1px) and add this one at the bottom of the page
2. Create a function in the ControlAddIn where you pass along the fieldname (=Caption) you want to select
3. With jQuery you can search in the HTML page the ID of this field. With this ID, you can construct the ID of the TextBox.
4. In default jQuery there is a function called .focus() you can use to set a focus on a TextBox or whatever you want.
In RTC you can use SendKeys to do what you need.
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We had the same problem (NAV2017, universal app ). This feature would make the universal app viable for customers who need simple barcode scanning functions.
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Hello,
We have the exact same problem here with Barcode scanners
Please bring this back :)
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Business Central Team (administrator)
Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.