Newbie simple question

[ZZR660]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the program a few hours now to set up a straight forward employee file system. The problem I have is to set up fields with check boxes or radio buttons of which only one out of minimal two must be selected. Example Gender: <box> male or <box> female so if no or both boxes are selected an error message must appear. This is pretty easy to solve in Access so anybody can help me, because I have a lot of such question type of fields. Also a simmilar problem in case let say minimum 2 out of 5 choices . Any help is appreciated.

ZZR

[Kurt Knippel]

What about using Radio Buttons? They are explicitly made for a single selection. Then all you need to do is to make sure that at least one of them was selected.

You can either use field validation to make sure that it is not empty or you can use scripting to validate the data. Personally I use scripting for all of my validation and I never user field level validation. Scripting allows me to control what happens and how it happens when validation fails, rather than leaving it up to Filemaker and the user to decide what to do.