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 Using a Dummy Link to encourage the User to click outside the field to Re-Run an Event
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Often when you have an event (like a calculation, dependency or dynamic lookup) attached to a field, you'll want to provide the user with a visual clue that they need to click outside of the field for the event to run. This article describes how you can insert a link that will give the user a visual clue to click outside the field, and force the event to run.  The link doesn't actually do anything, and simply returns void.

To set it up:

  1. Click Insert After  or Insert Before on your form where you want to place the link
  2. Choose the Header & Seperation Field Element
  3. Set the title to an empty string and click the description Tab
  4. In  the description tab enter the following:

    <a href='javascript:void(0);'>Re-Calculate Total</a>

    Note: You can change 'Re-Calculate Total' in the above code to anything you want.

        5. Click Save and Close.

    This will display a link on your form that will give the user a visual clue that they need to click outside of the field for the events to re-run.



Article Details
Article ID: 116
Created On: 12 Oct 2007 07:08 PM

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