>Hi everybody,
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>I have a form level validations of Date field. If date is 6 months older than the current date, the message is displayed and the date must be fixed before proceeding.
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>Now the user has a requirement, that in some cases we want to allow these old dates to go through. So, I'm thinking about new form's property ByPassDateValidation. I will ask a question in form's method, which verifies dates, and then set this flag accordingly.
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>My problem is, I don't want to ask this question everytime. I want to ask once and then use whatever answer the user provided.
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>I don't see a way to solve this problem without using another form's property lFirstTimeAsked. This seems to be an overkill.
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>Do you see a simpler way?
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Ok, while writing I found a way: instead of Logical use numeric (1 - ByPass, 0 - Use validation) and leave this property to be .f.

What about storing NULL in the property?
NULL - not answered - ask user
.T. - answered YES - go on with no question
.F. - answered NO - do not proceed, no question

HTH