Turning off portal selection

[lopay]

Hi,

I need to know if there is a way to turn off selection of a portal row when the background is clicked. I have a portal that takes up most of a page and has a layout inside of it. When I click in the back ground of the portal, it selects that portal row and changes the colors. I need a way around this. I have tried putting containers in the back ground that do nothing, but I can not get around it.

Thanks

[transpower]

Have you tried setting Alternate background fill in Portal Setup? Maybe changing that would help solve the problem.

[MoonShadow]

You can place a transparent rectangle inside the entire portal behind your fields. Then attach a script to it with: Go To field [Your main entry field].

In this way, if they accidently click outside a field but inside the row, the cursor will just jump to a field instead and the whole row won't turn black. If you wish to stop entry entirely (ie, no field inside the portal which Users can enter), change the script to: Commit Records/Requests (or Exit Record/Request if prior to vs. 7). I use it frequently if there is space inside the portal without a field. Picked up this tid-bit from CobaltSky.