Anybody have any techniques that get around the fact that when you click on another field or a portal, the element gains focus and the selection in the present element is lost.

I am inserting text into the selected point in a field. I'd like to do it from a button in a portal but the selection is lost the second its clicked on.

right now I'm using buttons over a repeating field (because making the field the button has the same problem). And I did try the same thing with buttons over a portal which did work (requires the button to extend past the portal). but these solutions are quite inelegant and prevent any scrolling as the buttons are static.

Any thoughts

Note I have found that turning off the ability of a field to be entered can fix the problem in a single field.

However doing such prevents determining what repetition was selected in a repeating field and the option does not exist for portals.