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Another problem with the events booking system:

I created two fields, 'password' and 'passwordconfirm'

I set both fields to require a value and I set the validation of 'passwordconfirm' in FileMaker with a calculation:

passwordconfirm = password

but that doesn't seem to work, the system allows different passwords to be entered - do I need to select 'Validate only if field has been modified' in the calculation if FileMaker or have a validation calculation on both fields???

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Steve T. Experienced

Steve T.

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Howdy! I'd suggest using JavaScript for password confirmation instead of using FM. JS can check the form before it's submitted whereas FM can only check after it's a done deal. Here's what I've used, just be careful about making changes if you don't know JS. I think I customized it for you already, but you still may have to tweak it if you have other stuff going on your page, too. Put the <head> stuff in the header section and the <body> stuff in the body section...

<head>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">

<!--

function checkPassword(form)

{

pass1 = form.password.value;

pass2 = form.passwordconfirm.value;

if (pass1 != pass2)

{

alert ("The passwords do not match. Please type them both again.")

return false;

}

else return true;

}

//-->

</SCRIPT>

</head>

<body>

<form name="form"

action="yourformatpage.html" method="POST" onsubmit="return checkPassword(this)">

<input type="password" name="password" size="12">

<input type="password" name="passwordconfirm" size="12">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">

</body>

[EDIT: ooops... you'll have to change the submit and format/submit page at least. Hope this gets you goin', though. --ST]

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