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Feature Request FR-3155
Product Area Page Components
Status CLOSED

9 Voters

Allow navigating to the right with enter in an IG

mathias.magnusson Public · May 19 2023

Idea Summary
It would be a great feature to be able to navigate to the next cell to the right when hitting enter on the numerical keypad. It would make sense to enable this as a declarative control as it is a thing one might want even if the team is staying in the nocode - lowcode model.

Hitting enter and getting to the next editable cell to the right or to the first on the following row would be ideal for some use cases.

Today it is not possible as navigation occurs before Dynamic Actions get access and handling this would require messing with the code APEX ships with. 

Use Case
The typical use case would be a data entry scenario where the user ends lots of data using the numerical key pad. Such users are much faster working the data with just one hand. They tend to come from a solution where this was possible. To them not being able to do it that way is forever going to be viewed as a limitation caused by APEX.

Preferred Solution (Optional)
My preference would be for this particular use case to be a toggle in a declarative way for the region.

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that it is unlikely to make its way into APEX in the foreseeable future.

Comments

Comments

  • vincent morneau Admin OP 1.9 years ago

    Hi @mathias.magnusson , interesting idea. It would seem that most spreadsheet Enter key behavior is to move downwards, not to the next cell. And that the tab key should be responsible for moving to the next cell.

  • mathias.magnusson OP 1.9 years ago

    I respectfully disagree. I don’t see why excel is the comparison. If you look at applikations used for massive data entry of pure numerical data it is always done with just the numerical keyboard. I’d say that with experience they are probably 5x faster with data entry that way than one can be with the tab key.

    Customers that rely on efficiency of data entry will end up using a solution that support it. That is not every customer and maybe APEX is not the tool for them. At least not the data entry portion. 

    I still think having a chance to capture the key pressed event before navigation occurs to another field would be useful. Then one could support this with a bit of custom code. 

    Anyway, thanks for considering the idea.