# Auto Advance Entry Field Focus in Perspective

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-advance-entry-field-focus-in-perspective/49556>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, perspective\
**Created:** [August 4, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-advance-entry-field-focus-in-perspective/49556 "2021-08-04T14:37:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkhoshroo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pkhoshroo/32/26801_2.png) [@pkhoshroo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pkhoshroo)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-advance-entry-field-focus-in-perspective/49556/3 "2021-08-04T15:26:54Z")

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Thank you very much for your response!  
Unfortunately, I am not quite sure how to use the information provided in this link to find the answer. In order to advance focus, do I need to create a custom method for each numeric field? and then call them from somewhere else? Where should I use the focus command?

> [@nminchin](#):
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> [Perspective Component Methods - Ignition User Manual 8.0 - Ignition Documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Perspective+Component+Methods#PerspectiveComponentMethods-RequestingFocus)

This is my first application with perspective so I am not quite sure to use which method exactly. I could not find anything for perspective and I found this link for vision:

> [@Auto advance input field focus after barcode scan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-advance-input-field-focus-after-barcode-scan/9004/4):
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> Try something like this: [propertyChange event](https://www.inductiveautomation.com/support/usermanuals/ignition/event_types.htm) if event.propertyName == "text": if chr(13) in event.newValue or chr(10) in event.newValue: event.source.parent.getComponent("txt2").requestFocusInWindow() NOTE TO SELF [size=50](and you since you are reading this)[/size]: PASTING text into a text field does NOT fire the propertyChange event.

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