Keyboard navigation in Form Builder
We have been regularly adding keyboard shortcuts to Form Builder. Keyboard shortcuts are very useful for power users, as they allow you to keep your hands on the keyboard to create, edit, and navigate a form under construction. For all the details, see Keyboard shortcuts.
Up/Down navigation in Form Builder grids
With Orbeon Forms 2024.1.1, we just added support for the Up and Down cursor keys to move up and down in the form, including going across grid and section boundaries. The following video show this in action, as well as the Left and Right keys to move left and right in a grid:
This is very easy to use: select a cell, and then use the keyboard’s cursor keys to navigate between grid cells!1 The selected cell moves to the next location, and, if needed, the form area scrolls.
We hope that you will like this new feature of Orbeon Forms!
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A little trick we had to work on was not to lose the vertical position when moving up and down grid cells. The effect is similar to what you have in (good) text editors or word processors, when moving your cursor up and down across text lines. ↩