Validation

[IEW]

I have a field "Quoted by" that is the employees name. I have this field

checked to "always validate"; "Not empty"; "member of list"; and show a

message if empty. I have a record where the "Quoted by" is empty and when I

click anywhere on the layout should not the message appear? What am I doing

wrong?

[Fitch]

Is this a new or existing record? FileMaker won't try to validate existing records unless you modify some field in that record.

[Vaughan]

The idea of validtion is to stop bad data entry in the first place, not to catch it later.