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Button that Does Nothing

Allan McConnell

4 years ago

I have users that have poor computing skills and often just click never using the TAB.
Problem being when the user gets to the end field and adds the records, if they do not tab out or click off the field my hidden button will not show.
My trick... a button that does nothing. They click it, the field loses focus and happy days. Just wondering if anyone else has done this?

	Allan McConnell OP @Reply 4 years ago
Sorry to the moderators. I Deleted my original approved post as I got an Error Message, telling me I had already posted a message, as I posted it. Thinking I had not successfully posted I wrote the message again.

	Adam Schwanz @Reply 4 years ago
You can do it however you want, you could also just show the hidden button and make it messagebox "you forgot this field" kind of thing before it ran whatever code was in it. There's a lot of ways you can do it. I have a few users on tablets working in the shop so I try not to use after update events on some forms for that reason, and that has worked well for me.

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