>>The Visual FoxPro documentation states:
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>>"For example, you might create a rule that compares the entry in the postal_code field of a table against a lookup table that contains the postal abbreviation codes for your country, and rejects any value that is not already present as a valid postal code abbreviation."
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>>I am try to accomplish a task similar to the postal abbreviation code validation. Could someone tell me what I need in my Field Validation Rule? An example based on the postal abbreviation code would be wonderful. Thank You.
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>You need to put the name of a function in the rule
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>DBSETPROP("MyTable","Table","RuleExpression","PostalCodeValidate()")
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>Then create a stored procedure in your dbc that does your checking for you, and returns .T. or .F. based on what it finds.
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>FUNCTION PostalodeValidate
>IF !USED('PostalCodes')
>USE PostalCodes IN 0
>ENDIF
>RETURN SEEK("CurrentTable.Code","PostalCodes","Code")
>ENDFUNC
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>Or something like that. Might want to close the table if it was not open before and such and such...


Thank You. I had been unable to find a good example of this being done anywhere.