... righto im having a small problem... most of my front end value lists are just custom defined static lists and seeing as i figure ill never have to clone my front end, thats not really a problem... the problem is my backend which has pretty much duplicate value lists for the purpose of validation... these however are all dynamic set by field... now the problem ive been having for some strange reason is that while the values in the backend are duplicates, i cant use validate as a member of value list...

sigh here is an example... front end yes / no value list... back end... dynamic yes / no list used for validation of front end field... i get an error in the front end... why?... i dont know...

Anyway, i have a headache and im not thinking to well at this point in time, so...if anyone has a few minutes to spare please straighten out my reasoning...

Cheers, genx

Ok... i just read what i wrote and it makes little to no sense... i use a back end value list to try and validate a front end field... and even though the front end value list has the same values... and the value is valid... i get a validation error in the front end...

In my opinion, if you control what can be entered in the field with a value list anyway, then there's no need for a validation by value list.

... well there is if its not a pop-up menu... i.e. its a pop-up list hence the problem... cause pop-up menus are ugly :