I would say, postpone the validation until the record is saved, i.e., when the user presses the "Save" button. That gives the user much more flexibility to move between different TextBoxes, in any order.
>Hello All,
>
>I have two date field. The date of date2 must not be
>greater than date1.
>
>In the keypress of date2 I have wrote:
>
>
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>ldDate3=ctod(" / / ")
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>ldDate3=(thisform.ldate.value) - thisform.ldDate2.value)
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>if thisform.ldDate.value>ldDate3
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>messagebox("Collection Date Exceeds 6 months",0+64,"Hello!")
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>endif
>
>
>
>But I am not getting the desired result. Before completely fiiling
>the date2 field the message box is appreaing.The messagebox
>appearing just after entering the month.And it is going to the next
>field which I want to stop.
>
>Please help me.
>
>Chandan
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