yafreax Posted August 4, 2000 Share Posted August 4, 2000 i wish i could figure out this Claris Home Page (CDML) stuff as easily as i did filemaker. But, hey, it's not my fault the program is very un-user friendly, even if the tags are supposed to be easy to understand. Actually i was just wondering how in the world to make a field required. We all know it can be done, besides on the -error pages, there is always a place for "required info missing." I looked in the help contents and index, but there was nothing there (didn't suprise me). I'm not overly impressed with CDML and Home Page, but it's all i have right now. Dreamweaver Developer's on its way though, and it's supposedly compatible with FM. Let's hope it's put together better! Any help would be appreciated. Venting Frustration Jeremy [This message has been edited by yafreax (edited August 04, 2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yafreax Posted August 4, 2000 Author Share Posted August 4, 2000 okay, i forget to mention something (in my haste and frustration) I'm not wanting the new record page to have required values, though your solution works, i'm needing required fields on a search page. For example, say there are three fields on the search page, a Company field and Name field and a email field. And i wanted the Company field to be required so that individuals can only search their company records. now i know what your thinking, why don't i just have different databases for each company. Well, the example i gave above is just an example. The db i'm working with has nothing to do with what i wrote above. But the solution would be the same. The Last Post Was In Haste Jeremy (ever notice how it seems like i'm writing to dear abby or something when i sign my name like that, that's pretty sick of me, maybe i'll stop........nah) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandra Posted August 5, 2000 Share Posted August 5, 2000 When you define a field in FM 4.1 there is a button called "Options...". Under the Options dialog box there is a Validation tab. Make sure there is a check-mark in the box next to "Not Empty" (near the top) and "Strict" (near the bottom). I don't know of any CDML tags that will make a field required when it is not defined that way in the database... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith M. Davie Posted August 5, 2000 Share Posted August 5, 2000 http://www.filemaker.com/support/index.html Search and read: Article Number: 104829, and Article Number: 105687 Peace Keith M. Davie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yafreax Posted August 7, 2000 Author Share Posted August 7, 2000 well, i don't know if it's just different with FM 5.x (the article was for 4.x) but it didn't quite work, however, i played with it a bit and got it to work. So thanks for the reference! Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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