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Marc Johnson
Posts: 252

Required Fields Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 22 Oct 07 2:09 PM

I'd like to do more than the basic '*' when a field is required. I like to change the field color (for text and memos) to a light yellow and change the hint. I'm assuming that I'd do this with a VBscript that I'd call, but how could I get this to be default behavior for all items with the .required set to true, without coding every single field? Or is this even possible?

6.2.6 (for now) btw

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Required Fields Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 22 Oct 07 3:07 PM

You can easily do this by iterating through the controls collection. You can see an example of this here: http://saleslogixblog.com/rfarley/archive/2004/07/26/925.aspx

You can also gleam some useful info from the article covering how to generically set a form to readonly here: http://www.slxdeveloper.com/page.aspx?action=viewarticle&articleid=70

So, your code will look something like this:

Dim i
 
    On Error Resume Next
 
    For i = 0 To ControlCount - 1
        If TypeName(Controls(i)) = "Edit" Then
            If Controls(i).Required Then Controls(i).Color = Application.BasicFunctions.StringToColor("Highlight")
        End If
    Next

I didn't test that code or anything, but give it a try.

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John Gundrum
Posts: 632

Re: Required Fields Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Oct 07 7:27 AM

Hmmm. I can see applying this to a few form where we have required fields.

Thanks,
John G.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Required Fields Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Oct 07 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by John Gundrum

Hmmm. I can see applying this to a few form where we have required fields.

Thanks,
John G.

Yeah, I would have to agree. I'd not though of this before, but it would make sense to wrap up as a generic script and just add to every form.

-Ryan

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John Gundrum
Posts: 632

Re: Required Fields Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 29 Oct 07 9:34 AM

it would make sense to wrap up as a generic script and just add to every form

I wasn't even think about that when I made the comment! An excellent idea to say the least!

Will have to work on that.

John G.

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