Paul,

No argument from me, it must be set to before by default to keep legacy code working correctly.

Thanks

Rex

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>>The user would not have access to the business rule validation. The user should never see these messages, if I do my job right, because the have nothing to do with the interface. I just want the system to tell me I didn't set a link field instead of me having to check everything manually. Isn't that what programming is all about, having the computer do the work?
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> Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. But I just never thought of using business rules to do it. I'll normally throw in an ASSERT for that kind of thing. I think your idea of using a logical flag is a good compromise. Now we can just argue over which way it gets set by default ;-)