validating two fields.

[Todd Dignan]

I have two date field on my web page. End Date and Start Date. Start Date is a pull down. Start Date can be blank. If Start Date is not blank. I need to be less than the End date. I have a Field Validation in Start date field.

If(not IsEmpty(start date) and end Date %u2264 Start Date,0,1)

I do have an error page based on error 507 ( failed calc validation)

This works sometime on the web and sometime not.

it needs to contestant.

Would Java be easier?

Thank for any help.

[CobaltSky]

Hello Todd,

I imagine your problem stems from the fact that once the start date has been validated, users can then edit the end date to a date that precedes the start date?

To address that, you would need a validation:

EndDate > StartDate

on the EndDate field.

Also, I suggest that you change your start date validation to cast it positively, thus:

StartDate < EndDate

...which will only be invoked if a value is entered into StartDate (so there is no need to deal separately with the IsEmpty criterion) and is simpler and more direct than the syntax you are using at present.

[cjaeger]

when dealing with entering starting and ending numbers, I always do it like that:

startdate=min(date1,date2)

enddate=max(date1,date2)

this way it does not matter which date is put into which field. In your case, this could mess up you validation, but you could catch the errors on the above calc as well ....

[Leb i Sol]

is this just CDML u are after?...hm well here is a code snipp and perhaps some more "food for the brain":

 

From: 

                <input type="hidden" name="-op" value="gte">

                <input name="Date" type="text" id="Date" tabindex="9" value="" size="15">

To: 

                <input type="hidden" name="-op" value="lte">

                <input name="Date" type="text" id="Date" tabindex="9" value="[FMP-CurrentDate]" size="15">



 

good luck

[Leb i Sol]

ops just read the post fully....my post is for one DB field (called "Date")...but u can apply it to 2