>I was thinking of the best generic way to make some fields in a table required. I'd like to check for the values in objects before the actual save takes place. What I thought I would try is to create a new logical property called "required" on all appropriate data objects (textboxes, editboxes, drop-downs, etc.). Then, in my pre-save hook I could just go through the container and make sure all objects with required=.T. are not empty.
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>Anyone have any ideas/comments about this approach?

if you are using DBCX (or anyother extention to the data dictionary) you can make this a property of the field
then it is tied to the data and not to the form...

Arnon