May 3, 200817 yr Newbies I am new to this site and asking for help on line, please excuse any errors I might make. Is there a way to make sure that a field has data in it before leaving that field by tabbing, changing layouts, clicking, quiting, or anything else? In this case I want them to put in a quantity before doing anything else. I have tried the valadition "not empty" and some "If" calculations, nothing I have tried is totally fool proof. Thank you for any advice.
May 4, 200817 yr You'd need to "lock down" the data entry layout so that any button that takes the user off this layout runs a validation script.
May 5, 200817 yr Author Newbies Thank you for your help. They say that ignorance is bliss, but not in this case. I'm sorry but I don't know what "lock down" means. Dan
May 9, 200817 yr Sorry for that. "Lock down" means in this case, to design the form view so that a user cannot navigate off of it without running your validation routine. Typically, locking down a layout means that all navigation is scripted (usually attached to buttons), that is, the user cannot use FM's native navigation such as the Book icon in the status area.
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