Event Order

When moving INTO an item, events with a wider scope will occur first. For instance, when you enter the first field of a new record, the Enter Record event occurs before the Enter Field event.

When moving OUT OF an item, events with a smaller scope will occur first. For instance, when you change a field value and then move to the next record, the following events happen in this order:

·	Change Value

·	Change Field

·	Leave Field

·	Insert Record or Update Record

Opening a window

When the user opens a new application and a window in it, generally the following events occur:

·	Open Application

·	Enter Record

·	Pre-record entry (Info Box property)

·	Open Window

·	Startup Actions (Info Box property)

·	Post-open (Info Box property)

·	Enter Field

·	Pre-field-entry (Field property)

New record

When the user enters the first field value in a new record, generally the following events occur:

·	Create Record

·	Post-create (Field property, for all fields in record)

·	Change Value

·	On Change (Field property, for each character entered)

Field-to-field

As the user moves from field to field within a record, generally the following events occur:

·	Enter Field

·	Pre-field entry (Field property)

·	Change Value

·	On Change (Field property, for each character entered)

·	Change Field

·	Adjust Change (Field property)

·	Most field and domain checks (IO format, allowed values, domain constraints, field attributes except Mandatory)

·	Post-edit (Field property)

·	Post-change (Field property)

·	Primary and Foreign Key Validation if applicable (when set programmatically, or during group validation)

·	Leave Field

·	Post-leave (Field property)

NOTE:

What happens at Change Field time depends on HOW the field is changed. Please refer to the description of Data Events for details.

Record-to-record

As the user moves from one record to another, generally the following events occur:

·	Insert Record (referring to the previous record)

·	Post-change (Info Box property)

·	Mandatory field checks

·	Pre-insert Validation (Info Box property)

·	Row constraints

·	Post-insert (Info Box property)

·	Enter Record (referring to the new record)

·	Pre-record-entry (Info Box property)

Commit

The user issues the Save/Commit command, generally the following events occur:

·	Commit Transaction

·	Restrictive multi-record constraints

·	Pre-commit (Application property)