How do I remove the focus from ddlist after making selection?

[Ethan]

Making a selection in a drop-down list runs a db query. My users are making
their selection, getting the query results then try to scroll with the wheel
which opens the ddlist again.

How do I remove the focus from the ddlist control after the query is run?

On behalf of my users and I, thank you in advance.

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

Hi Ethan,

Have you already tried setting the focus on another field using SelectText
or SelectNodes?

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2004/04/07/109189.aspx

Regards,
S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton

 

[Ethan]

SelectNodes works. The problem is I need to select the node as soon as the
query results are returned without any user action and if I combine Query()
with SelectNodes I get a run-time error saying that the SelectNodes call is
an invalid selection.

How do I get SelectNodes to run after the query results are returned using
the same trigger event such as OnAfterChange?

Thanks for the quick response.
Ethan

 

[bratt]

I had a similar error showing when I hid a dropdown based on what the
user selected and showed a text box in same location (similar to the
"Type text..." combo box in the InfoPath Conditional Format Dialog). I
had solved my SelectText problem by setting a flag and selecting a
third Node (not a drop down node) and for the OnContextChange method I
checked for the flag and redirected back to the desired node via
SelectText.
(This problem only seemed to occur with my code when in a repeated
section).

 

[Ethan]

Setting the Tab index of the ddlist control to -1 did the job.
Thanks to Ashish for this simple solution. See his post "Subject: RE:
Changing the focus on the view"

 

[Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]]

The problem is because your drop-down list is the first selectable control in the view. If you had something else selectable before that (like a text box or check box or anything else) then you could use the wheel without any problem.

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Making a selection in a drop-down list runs a db query. My users are making
their selection, getting the query results then try to scroll with the wheel
which opens the ddlist again.

How do I remove the focus from the ddlist control after the query is run?

On behalf of my users and I, thank you in advance.