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    Field Validation

    Hi,

    Recently started developing with Alpha 5 V6 having come from a background in Oracle and am really tearing my hair out with this simple problem!!

    Basically, in a browse layout all I want to do is validate that a field can only contain characters in "123456789,-"

    So, valid entries for that field could be "1,3-9,6" or "5,8,10,12-16" etc. etc.

    I've developed a logical function to return true or false in this scenario, but I simply cannot get it to work when using the expression builder in Field rules for custom validation.

    Is this the right place to do this?

    Many thanks,

    Richard

    #2
    RE: Field Validation

    Does your validation work in the form mode you can try using the default form?
    it also might help if you showed the ecact validation expression ued.

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      #3
      RE: Field Validation

      Thanks for the info - in doing what you said I managed to determine where the problem was - I'd set the field validation rule on the table field, rather than the set field (which form was based). I naively assumed that the field custom validation rules would be duplicated on both table and set!!

      Anyway, still have another problem - if I create a form over the table, my customised validation error message appears ok, but if I use the form over the set - I get an unhelpful 'Field value not valid: fieldname' error.

      Any ideas on this??

      Thanks

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        #4
        RE: Field Validation

        In a set based form you probably need to reference a child table with

        childtablename-"fieldname
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          RE: Field Validation

          Sorry probably didn't make it clear...

          In the field rules for the set, I have added a custom validation function which returns True or False, and have put a customised error message to appear if the validation fails. However, when I run my form over the set - the validation correctly determines whether the field is valid or not, but I do not get my customised error message. I simply get the 'Field value not valid: fieldname' message instead.

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            #6
            RE: Field Validation

            " I do not get my customised error message" - the expression for which is???????????????????
            There can be only one.

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              #7
              RE: Field Validation



              richard dymond wrote:
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              ... I naively assumed that the field custom validation rules would be duplicated on both table and set!!

              That is what happens. Field rules only exist at the table level. You can edit them from the set, but they are applying at the table level... Make a change from the set and you'll see the same change from editing on the table.... Something else is going on.

              btw, Welcome to the Alpha world.
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                #8
                RE: Field Validation

                I'm assuming you have some customized message which specifies a field value?
                There can be only one.

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