Jeremy,

The valid only fires if the user gets into the field. You might want to create a table level rule.

>I am trying to force a user to enter a value in a textbox. The control source is a field in a view that I created. That field is validated by a stored procedure (as follows)
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>FUNCTION vEexp()
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>lparameters tnEexp
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>RETURN not empty(allt(tnEexp))
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>This should work but it does not. The valid only gets called if the user changes the field. How do I force validation