Re: REQUIRED fields in Forms

<snip> >>My understanding of "required" was that the user HAS TO ENTER some >>value into the field. Does the 'formonly' designation cause a problem >>here? > >You don't given any platform or version information, which doesn't >help. However, given the code below running on Sun Sparc (Solaris >2.5.1) and I4GL 6.05.UC1, then in the first INPUT statement, I have to >enter values in the two date fields (but not in the two CHAR fields, >because there is no required attribute), but in the second INPUT, I >don't not have to type anything (and it doesn't matter whether the TYPE >DATE part of the specifications is present or not). > Michael, You got your answer from Jonathan. My doubt is that your $DBPATH is pointing to another form with the same name(probably an earlier version of the same form), which don't have the attribute "required", that is how your program gets away without any value in those columns. -- Have a nice day Felix K. Mathews mailto:fmathews@systems.dhl.com