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)