What is the reason of holding the ALT button, to go to a new line in Memo fields?
Going to a new line by just pressing Enter, like any other application, would be very pleasant.
Or add a extended property to make this possible.
New line in memo fields without pressing the ALT button
Windows GUI
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a) Enter the title, press Enter key;
b) Enter the description, press TAB key twice or use the mouse;
c) Enter the issue type, press Enter key;
d) Enter Priority, press Enter key;
e) ...
It's weird that moving out of the description field requires an action which is different from all the other fields.
I'm not saying that this is desired or expected behavior, but this is the reasoning behind it. The real issue here is that the Enter key in Thinkwise applications is used in a non-standard way, which conflicts with a general expectation of what it's supposed to do. Assigning two alternative behaviors to the Enter key is going to make applications inconsistent, I'm not sure if this is what we should do.
However, I fully support an extended property which:
1) Completely disables the non-standard behavior of Enter and Shift+Enter keys in Thinkwise applications;
2) Allows Enter and Shift+Enter to be used normally in all multiline-like text fields;
3) Maybe skip all lookup buttons when pressing the TAB key, instead relying on Ctrl+L.
Please let us know what you think.
I like your proposal for the extended property, and will immediately activate this when it comes available.
To rely on Ctrl+L for lookup fields is fine, a little tooltip, to mention the purpose of Ctrl-L, could help. Users are always suprised if I mention the function of Ctrl+L, so this is useful anyways.
Best regards,
Harm
In addition to this, I would suggest to never move the cursor to a popop button. Only move from field to field and activate popups with the mouse or Ctrl+L.
Isn't it an idea to go a different TAB with Ctrl-TAB or someting like this?
Any developments on this request?
When I look in the SF, it’s possible to use Enter as a new line in the code editor. So maybe another control or domain setting could work?
I think this is only for code types like SQL
Thats right! It's a separate domain control (Code editor). So maybe a new domain control or a domain setting could be used to change the behaviour of Enter within a memo field (just like code editor). This will minimize the impact (it is already used). So maybe it could be implemented faster