Jumping out of new portal record

[obesefeline]

I have a portal that shows related records fine. And I can create a new related record in the empty row. The problem is navigating from field to field. Most fields are populated from choices on a pulldown menu but not all fields are tabbed. When a choice is made, the field is filled and the cursor moves to the next tabbed field. When the last tabbed field or one of the non-tabbed fields is filled, the new row is treated as complete and the cursor moves somewhere, maybe always to a new empty row.

The last tabbed field on the entire layout is in this portal.

How can I make the cursor stay on the portal row being created until the user finishes entering all data, in tabbed and non-tabbed fields. Since all fields don't need to be populated, I don't have all fields tabbed, letting the user move the cursor to selected fields in whatever order they want.

Thanks for any quidance on this. And whether or not it relates to my problem, is there a way to make the cursor stay on a field after making a choice from it's pulldown menu?

Doug

[Fitch]

Perhaps you would consider an alternate method of populating the portal, either with global fields in the parent file, or directly in the related file. Either way requires scripting the data entry. But there can be advantages to that, e.g., no more accidentally created empty records.

As for staying in a popup field, here's a hack:

Create a duplicate of the field, format it as a standard field (no popup), and put it behind the original field. In the tab order, make the duplicate immediately follow the original.

[obesefeline]

This hack worked fine. Thanks, Tom.