I have created a layout with 3 tabs, personal info, work info and additional info. While entering the data, it would be useful to tab from the last field of the "personal info tab" to the first field of the "work info tab". Possible?

Not only is it possible, it's actually easy. In Layout mode go to Layouts > Set tab order. Just set the first field on your second tab to come after the last field on your first tab and so on.

On a side note, I'm trying to figure out how to automatically commit a record on switching tabs. Any ideas?

Sorry about that. I thought I'd run into this before but now it doesn't seem to be working. ;)

Two ways I can think of...

For committing a record by pointer selection of a tab you could 1) give the tabs object names 2) mask the tabs (i use a tab panel resized to just the single tab) 3) overlay buttons that commit the record and go to the specified layout object.

For committing a record or tabbing onto another tab layer from a field- I imagine that would require a plugin to trigger a script on field exit like zippScript .

If this can be done w/o a plugin, I am highly interested as well.

shalom,

Matthew

The tip about zippScript was very helpful. Thanks.

Sorry for the delay in reply, but thanks! I'll take a look at zippscript. I knew about Tab order, but it doesn't advance past the first tab unfortunately, it just returns to the lowest numbered tab on the screen.

Thanks for the replies - I'll see if the plug in works.

See if this helps:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/171797/