Required Field Business Rules

Often you want to require a dataform field to be completed, but only under certain conditions. Making the field required at the dataform level is not a good solution. That's where the required field business rules come into play.

The following list comprises the required field rules.

Rule	Description
_HE_RequireField _SE_RequireField	Displays a hard error (_HE_RequireField) or soft error (_SE_RequireField) on a parent or child/tab dataform when you attempt to save the form without entering a value in the specified required field. If you are configuring a hard error, you are unable to continue the Save process without providing a value. If you are configuring a soft error, you can choose to provide a value or you can continue the Save process without providing a value. Note: These methods are only configurable on the primary form of a tab set but you can reference triggering fields from tabbed forms. These methods support the following configurations: Singleform to singleform Multiform to singleform Multiform to multiform if both dataforms are within the same tab set Tab field to Tab field if both fields are within the same tab set These methods replace the _RequireFieldOnThisForm and _RequireTabField business rule methods. Parameters: RequiredDataformName and RequiredFieldName.
_RequireAdHocField	Checks for a field value that resides in a node embedded in the dataform XML packet. Parameters: sFieldPath and sFieldLabel

Rule

Description

_HE_RequireField

_SE_RequireField

Displays a hard error (_HE_RequireField) or soft error (_SE_RequireField) on a parent or child/tab dataform when you attempt to save the form without entering a value in the specified required field. If you are configuring a hard error, you are unable to continue the Save process without providing a value. If you are configuring a soft error, you can choose to provide a value or you can continue the Save process without providing a value.

Note:

These methods are only configurable on the primary form of a tab set but you can reference triggering fields from tabbed forms.
These methods support the following configurations:
- Singleform to singleform
- Multiform to singleform
- Multiform to multiform if both dataforms are within the same tab set
- Tab field to Tab field if both fields are within the same tab set
These methods replace the _RequireFieldOnThisForm and _RequireTabField business rule methods.

Parameters: RequiredDataformName and RequiredFieldName.

_RequireAdHocField

Checks for a field value that resides in a node embedded in the dataform XML packet.

Parameters: sFieldPath and sFieldLabel