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fields order in add/edit

 		12/9/2007 2:42:41 PM
PHPRunner General questions
M
 marke author

Hi
I am having trouble with field ordering in 4.1. I want a two column entry form for the Edit and Add pages - with tab taking the user down the fields in left column and then the right column. I have got this to work before in 3.1.
I changed the field order to reflect the order I needed for the form - but it just displays in the order the fields appear on the form (left column then right column then left column etc.). I have checked the .phpr xml and the field order is as I want it. I have reset the page and then rebuilt my form - very painful and still no luck.
Can't find anything covering this problem on the forum
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
Mark
Alexey admin 12/10/2007

Mark,
publish your project on Demo Account (last tab in PHPRunner) and send a URL where I can see this problem to support@xlinesoft.com
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 		drh 12/10/2007

Yes, this is my problem also. I was able to do this in PHPR3.1, but I actually went in and modified the php code. Very time consuming. I believed the visual editor would make this easy to do, it probably does, yet I have been unsuccessful in my application.

Please post your solution.
Thanks,

Dave
M
 		marke author 12/11/2007

Dave
My problem was that the field order setting has no impact when you move things around with Visual Editor - it simply uses the tab order on the html page.
To get round this on a two column entry form - divide the form into two separate html tables and then the tab order will go through the first table before jumping to the second table. I was trying to use a single table. Easy really - why didn't I realise this.
Mark