Re: Forms50: Navigation between master and detail blocks

Hi -

[Quoted] We are still in forms 3.0 and in the process of converting to Oracle forms 5.0.
I cannot answer your first question but can help with the last one.

NEWS.M-L.NET <amiller_at_rhs.org> wrote in article <_Xah3.4$D47.218383_at_IConNet>...
> Do you know a easy way to toggle between master and detail blocks without
> using CNT pgdn/up or mouse?
>
> I can go to master to detail block by changing navigation style, but I
can't
> navigate out of detail to master block.
> I get stuck at the end of detail block (in the blank line).
> At this point I click on the master block to go to master block, but 2nd
> time when I tab out of master block it will bring me to the blank line of
> detail block.......I like to get to the first line of detail.

Use built-in first_record in one of your triggers when you land in the detail block. I don't know what that is in GUI forms.

If you want to land in a particular item in the first record then you can use:

first_record;
go_field('block1.item1');

Suresh Bhat
Oracleguru
www.oracleguru.net
oracleguru_at_mailcity.com Received on Fri Jul 09 1999 - 16:04:23 CEST