We have a range of databound forms that contain little more than a couple of edit fields. Eg Code & Description.

Whenever the key field is null and we lose focus we get a

"Data Validation Error - Data is required control may not

be skipped!".

Is there any way we can avoid this because it's very annoying when you edit a record, do the write which clears the form and then try and close the window via a button. You can't do it until you select a valid entry.

One of those trivial things that gets under people's skin…

Checkout IOOPTIONS field 10. See online help.

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Thanks, will do.

Or you could do something like this in the LOSTFOCUS event of the key field. This stops the "data is required" message.

call promoted_event(ctrlentid,flag,focusid,p3,p4,p5,retval) ;* if you need to then have to do it here rather than quick event for this to work in the event chain.

*List of valid buttons.

Locate field( FocusID, '.', 2 ) in 'B_CLOSE,B_WHATEVER' using ',' setting P then valid=0 else valid=1

RETURN valid

Thanks Paul,

For a quick fix I've used the IOOPTIONS in the CREATE event of the window. I expect down the track I'll be doing something in a promoted event to manage all relevant windows.

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