- Focus Helpers
Enable the Show Focus Helpers in your Working with Your User Profile to activate keyboard navigation. For example, use the Tab key to navigate to the next control. Use the space bar to toggle the control. Use the arrows to move around the grid and to select values in drop-down lists.
- Record Locking
When you begin editing a row, that item is locked so that other users cannot modify it until you save or discard your changes. If you navigate away from the Editable Grid without saving or discarding your changes, the modified items remain locked until the timeout period set by your administrator expires or the locks are manually removed. You can remove your own locks, but an administrator must remove locks created by other users.
- Privileges
Users who have privileges to update or transition items can modify them in the Editable Grid. If a report contains fields that you do not have privileges to view, asterisks appear in both view and edit mode. If you can view a field but not update it, it is read-only in edit mode.
- Page Navigation, Column Sorting, and Requery
You can perform these actions in edit mode, but you must save or discard any changes you have made first.
- Active/Inactive Items
Red text appears in the first column for inactive items.Tip: Add a column to display active/inactive field for an additional way to tell which items are active. This method will address issues that color blind individuals may have with discerning the red text.
- Notes, Attachments, and Item Links
If included in the report specification, these items can be viewed by clicking on the links in the Associated Attachments column of the Editable Grid. You can modify them by clicking Item Actions
. - Column Calculations
Calculations included in the report specification are included as read-only data in the Editable Grid.
- Embedded Reports
The Use Editable Grid link is not available for reports that are embedded in an external Web site.