Re: Forms 4.5 LOV help needed!

Jody Lewis wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I need some assistance with validation of a field by setting the LOV for
> Validation property to True. How can I handle cases where the user types in
> some bogus value and then wants to close the screen. They don't care that the
> value entered is invalid. Plus once the screen they are currently on is closed,
> the block containing this field is cleared. Currently, the user would have
> close the LOV, delete the value they presently have in that item and then close
> the form. it sure would be nice to give them the ability to just close the form
> and forget corecting the field that is going to get flushed out anyway.
>
> If you can help me with this, I sure would appreciate it!!
>
> Send responses to my email account if possible.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jody Lewis

My colleague, Steve Johnson, and I debated responding to this because we didn't really want to be the bearer of bad news. We had to write our own validation for each item when this case arose.

The only option we could find that might have worked without writing our own was to alter the LOV_for_validation property, based on what the user did after leaving the field. You'll have a tough time controlling all the ways a user can leave a field though, since most of the time, you won't know until after the validation fires!

Good Luck! :(

-- 
"Came for the party, left on the run"

Robert Christenson
Gazette Technologies
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