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When to Use Automatic Scrolling

Depending on the specific circumstances, automatic scrolling might not be the best approach. In some cases it is more straightforward, both for the user and you, to handle scrolling explicitly in the procedure logic.

Automatic scrolling is most effective when the following conditions are met:

• A single, non-nested repeating group is to be scrolled.
• The number of occurrences that satisfy the user's selection criteria is likely to be so small that all occurrences will fit in the repeating group view.

For example, consider a procedure step in which an ORDER and the ORDER_ITEMs it contains are displayed. If you are confident that there will never be over one hundred ORDER_ITEMs per ORDER, automatic scrolling is an excellent alternative. You should still include logic to handle the case where there are more than one hundred ORDER_ITEMs for a particular ORDER.

You select automatic scrolling by specifying the Scroll Indicator property for the screen to Yes.