Unable to scroll in repetition fields

[PatriciaW]

I have a layout which contains field with 16 repetitions. I want to be able to scroll in the fields. Even though I can select "include vertical scroll bar" no scroll bar appears.

Is this a known defect/limitation or am I doing something wrong?

[comment]

No, that's the way it is. See the attached for a workaround.

scrollRepeating.fp7.zip

[PatriciaW]

Many thanks ... defining each field individually although a bit kludgey will work. It's annoying that FM lets you define scrolling and then ignores it. :

[PatriciaW]

: Do you have a workaround for the fact that I am unable to scroll the field when I have specified that the field cannot be entered in browse mode .. or is this another limitation?

[Søren Dyhr]

: Do you have a workaround for the fact that I am unable to scroll the field when I have specified that the field cannot be entered in browse mode .. or is this another limitation?

Yes but the limitation is unfortunately an conceptual one, developers do by and large use repeaters for keyfields only which means that they hardly shows them to the user at all.

Portals have the feature you ask for. It's about time you dwelve into relations!

--sd

[comment]

That is true for any field, not just repeating field. It is difficult to advise without knowing the purpose. One possible way would be to display the contents in a calculation field = repeating field. The user can enter the field (thus scroll as well), but not modify the contents.

[PatriciaW]

If I had designed the database, I would not have had any repeating fields. Unfortunately that is not the case as I was just contracted to port the system from FM6 to FM7. Once I get this FM7 version into production, I hope to be able to do a better job of normalizing the database schema (assuming that I get the contract : )