Question about validation

[Albert Cerussi]

Hi,

Im trying to exit filemaker (7) in the presence of validation. I have some fields that require input, and the validation option works great.

But I would like to have an exit button in case someone needs to exit.

My problem is that using the validation wont let you exit untill you eneter the fields. Is there any way to use the validation, but if someone presses an "exit" button FPM will just drop it and exit.

Im new at this so sorry for the newbieness of the question.

Thanks

Albert

[Ender]

You've discovered one of the problems with validations that require field input.

Instead of using the Not Empty option, you can try to validate by calculation, where you check whether the field is not empty or if some other flag has been set for that record.

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I would only put an Exit button on a main menu. I would assume you don't want users leaving blank records all the time. So they should either be forced to enter the data or delete the record, return to the main screen, and then click an Exit button.