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Siebel – DefaultFocus – User Property

In Siebel Application, whenever you navigate to a screen, the default focus of the cursor is set to the first editable field. You may have a requirement to instead set the default focus to a more commonly used field. So, whenever you navigate to that screen, the curson focus will be on the client required field first up, and the user will have to navigate to reach some other field in the applet.

This can be done easily by using a Siebel vanilla Applet level User Property called, DefaultFocus.

In order to use this, simply navigate to the ‘Applets’ object manager in Siebel Tools. Navigate to ‘Applet User Prop’ under the ‘Applets’ Object Manager.

Do a NewRecord and set the following values:
Name : DefaultFocus
Value :

Here, is the name of the column where you want to set the Default focus.

Compile your changes into the Siebel SRF and run. You will now see that the default focus whenever you navigate to the screen, has been set on the required column in the Applet.

This will run for both Form and List Applets. But, somehow this does not run in High Interactivity mode! This works in Standard Interactivity mode only. I hope this article helps somebody someday.

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