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Configuring Custom Tab Navigation (xamDataPresenter)

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic describes how to customize the default tab navigation in the xamDataPresenter™ controls.

Required background

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic Purpose

This topic describes how to add a xamDataGrid control to your page.

This topic describes the xamDataPresenter control’s built-in keyboard support that provides users the option of navigating Records and Fields with their keyboard.

In this topic

This topic contains the following sections:

Configuring Custom TAB Navigation

Overview

Using the TAB keyboard button, you can navigate through all the cells in the xamDataPresenter controls.

You can exclude a particular Cell or Field from TAB navigation, using the IsTabStop property. This doesn’t affect records filtering and adding new records.

The default value of this property is null which resolves to true.

Note
Note

The Cell IsTabStop property value overrides its Field IsTabStop and IsTabStopInAddRecord settings.

Property settings

The following table maps the desired behavior to the property settings that manage it.

In order to: Use this property: And set it to:

Change the default tab navigation by excluding a particular Cell or a Field’s cells in data records (i.e. not add records or filter records)

false

Change the default tab navigation by excluding a Field’s cells in add records.

false

Example

Following is the code that implements this example.

In XAML:

<igDP:TextField Name="Name" Label="Product_Name" IsTabStop=" IsTabStopInAddRecord=" />

Related Topics

The following topics provide additional information related to this topic.

Topic Purpose

This topic gives an overview of the selection in the xamDataGrid control.

This topic describes the xamDataGrid RecordManager mechanism.

This topic describes how to access the xamDataGrid selected items.

This topic describes how to modify a xamDataPresenter control’s selection functionality.

This topic describes the xamDataPresenter control’s built-in keyboard support that provides users the option of navigating Records and Fields with their keyboard. It also allows users to perform clipboard operations using common keyboard shortcuts found in many operating systems.

This topic lists the set of command bindings which is used to perform certain actions on the xamDataPresenter controls.