Set cursor position after Rules

[Brett]

Hi Alexander,

Is there a way to position the cursor to a specific field after Rules have been fired?
I’ve got a bunch of Content Types and a Managed Metadata field which uses the set field value in a rule.

Once rule is triggered, if I click in an empty text field and click Save all works fine, but if I just click Save I get error:
“Value cannot be null. Parameter name: Term Id”. (attached)

If you can please provide a script that can click in a text field after rules are fired, this would help me seal the deal for DFFs SCA license purchase.
Ask if you need more details?
Thanks.

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[Brett]

Hi Alexander,
From further testing, are you able to provide a script to click out of the Managed Metadata box from a function in a Rule?
The last field on the form is this “Doc” Managed Metadata field and it seems to work when I click on anywhere else on the form, then I click Save button.
I’ve been Googling this and I was leaning towards a jQuery .focusout method, is that right?
Your help is much appreciated.
Regards.

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
You can try adding this to your Custom JS and call the function from the “Run these functions / trigger these rules” in the rule:

function focusOnTitle(){
    jQuery("#dffs_Title input:text").focus();
}

[Brett]

Thank you Alexander that worked perfectly.
I also changed it to use the filename column:

jQuery("#dffs_FileLeafRef input:text").focus();

SCA license purchase will follow shortly now that my Manager is impressed DFFS could do what Nintex Forms couldn’t.
Cheers.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Brett.

[Alexander Bautz]

I’m glad we got it sorted 🙂

Alexander

[Rick Cedergren]

I’m having trouble setting the focus on form load to a people picker field. I tried the function above (as jQuery(“#dffs_Recipient input:text”).focus();) without success. Any thoughts as to why it is not working?

Thanks in advance.

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
I think the people picker input in earlier SP versions might actually be a div (with contenteditable property) – use the developer tools to inspect the field and change the selector to target the correct element.

Alexander

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