>What do people do for standard validation of data. ? how do you make screens react ?
>The valid propertity while it works. is not what I am looking for, (what if the user never gets to that field, and the data, cant be left out.
>
>Onto the question
>if I have a save button, which is suppose to check the data before writing it to the database ?
>like this
>if thisform._textfield1=0
>* something wrong"
>** how to I put control back to the form, with
>
>endif
>then write the data
>
>I tried doing a setfocus() but the save button just goes back and saves it anyway.
>
>I was thinking of putting the isvalid() in seperate class. Anythought ?
>
>Thank you
>Bob lee


This is exactly the type of thing that you can put in the business rules. The Valid() method of the biz class should check for missing data and validate populated fields.

You can also check for this in the rules and triggers for the fields/tables in the DBC.