Form disappears with Escape key

Hi Nick,

I’m only speaking in general here... Usually, the Esc key implements a way to backup or cancel a process so that might be the case with Ninox.

Backup = back out of.

Nick -

Ninox form view is configured to layer one form on top of another as you drill down, through links, from table to table.  For example, a payroll table that is linked to a withholding table that is linked to an employee table allows the user to lay three forms on top of each other.  As clicking on a linked field takes you "down" deeper into the link path, the [Esc] key returns you "back to the top" one layer (or form) at a time.

Now if you only have one form being viewed on screen - which would be the form of the current table - hitting the [Esc] button will take you back to the default table view.  This is not a bug - it is a design structure of Ninox.

Nick - Keep in mind that the "default" view in Ninox is the currently selected view.  Within that view, all records that match any selection (filter) criteria are displayed.  This is relevant when you are looking at a view designed to display more than one record (list, Kanban, Card, etc.).  However, a form view, by definition, is designed to display one record from the current table at a time.  Thereofore if you are at the root (the "top of the stack" as it were) and you hit [Esc] again, then you are simply backing out of the current record.  You are still in the form view however and since forms can only display one record at a time and you have now backed out of that record, you are left with a blank screen.  In the scenario displayed in your screen snap above, if you select the (all) or Table view, you will likely see the records in the current table (which, in this case, is Test3).

I see what Nick is saying now and it seems kind of pointless to back out of a screen that is showing a record to a screen that shows nothing. The Ninox team could easily catch this behavior and nullify the Esc keypress. On the other hand, don't press the Esc key. Just my two cents.

Oh come on now Sean.  I appreciate the reference, but this is hardly a system-failure-to-perform sort of issue here.  

 It was a joke that played off of my comment about not pressing the Esc key. You are familiar with memes, right?

Of course.

This will be logged in the change list Nick.