Switching Between Composite Form Panels Does Not Start User From Top of Panel

When switching between panels on a composite form, the browser window does not adjust to start the user at the top of the new panel. If the user is at the bottom of a form on a given panel and clicks to view a new panel, they start off on the new panel at the bottom of a form.

Is there anything we can do in the LPL to have them start at the top of the panel? It does not matter if we have them click the next button or click on the panel. The experience is the same.

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Dr. Awesome

Could I ask for the specific BusinessClass and CompositeForm name? And maybe evens your two panels, in case that matters. You mentioned "click the next button" which is specific to CompositeForms with step navigation so maybe this gets very specific. I'll ask, is this an issue on every CompositeForm for you, or just this one?

smodarressiyazdi

Hi,

We are experiencing this in delivered and user-business classes. My initial question was for a user business class and user created form.

As an example on a delivered BC and CompositeForm:

I look at a resource on the delivered CompositeForm "LRCEmployee" in the Administrator webapp
Scroll down the form on the "At a Glance" panel
Click one of the last panels at the bottom of the "LRCEmployee CompositeForm"
I am redirected to the Panel, but start somewhere on the form that may/may not be the top of the panel form.

Screenshots of the LRCEmployee are below and I'll provide the context, LPL, and Screenshots for my original question in another comment.

Scroll down the LRCEmployee>AtAGlance Panel>LRCDetail form

Where I start when clicking on the Benefits Panel from the location of LRCDetail form in previous screenshot

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smodarressiyazdi

This is the LPL for our user-created CompositeForm on a user-created BC:

CompositeFormCreateManageDraft is a CompositeForm

title is untranslatable:"Position Requisition Form - Draft"

show panel navigation

use for action AIRUpdateDraftRequisition

RequisitionInformation is a Panel

visible when (Status.Draft)

form is DraftPositionRequisitionIntakeForm

PositionDescription is a Panel

visible when (Status.Draft)

form is DraftPositionRequisitionPositionDescription

InterviewInformation is a Panel

visible when (Status.Draft)

form is DraftPositionRequisitionInterviews

Approvers is a Panel

visible when (Status.Draft)

form is DraftPositionRequisitionApprovers

InitiatorAcknowledgement is a Panel

visible when (Status.Draft)

form is DraftPositionRequisitionInitiatorAcknowledgement

SubmittedToHCP is a Panel

visible when (InitiatorSubmittedForApproval)

form is InitiatorSubmittedToHCP

SubmittedToComp is a Panel

visible when (HCPSubmitDraftToComp)

form is HCPSentDirectlyToComp

SubmittedToVP is a Panel

visible when (HCPSubmitDraftToVP)

form is HCPSentDirectlyToVP

Actions

action is next record

valid when (InvalidHideAction)

hide when invalid

action is previous record

valid when (InvalidHideAction)

hide when invalid

action is save

label is untranslatable:"Save"

action is save and close

action icon is save

label is untranslatable:"Save & Close"

Dr. Awesome

So one issue with scrolling that Benefits form all the way to the top would be losing the panel/tab "Benefits" from the screen (since it's too far down due to so many panels/tabs). It would scroll out of view actually.

Now, the left hand panels scroll could be made to independently scroll from the form content, but that has it's own set of issues, and probably is worse that what you have rn.

One option for you, which would be an adjustment for your end-users for sure, would be to have the panels/tabs horizontally across the top vs. vertically down the left. For this you need to make sure that both "show panel control on left" is not specified on the CompositeForm itself. Horizontally the panels that don't fit go into an overflow drop-down however. You are trading off scrolling for a click to access panels at the end.

Are you saying that CompositeFormCreateManageDraft has the same issue as LRCEmployee then? That is surprising since at worst there are only 8 panels.

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