Validation

john

I have a small problem with validation and wondered if somebody could help.

I have a business object called "Temp", these temps can fall into six different catagories which is decided by the form used to submit them (I have six different forms). Each form contains different fields from the entire field set. To achieve this I have. to start off with made all of the fields in the set non manditory. This all works fine but I would like to be able to validate the information submitted by each form.

My question
Is there a quick way that you can think of checking what information is validated by the form that was used? I have started all of these forms by a seperate process so I thought about throwing the rules into the processes, that way only the rules relevant to that process would be run each time a new temp is entered (it didnt work).

My rules in the process read
1)Enter NEW Temp USING Form1

2)If Temp IS NEW AND Temp.Name='' Then
REPORT ERROR 'You Must Enter Your Name'

Obviously this is wrong but I included it to try to explain what I am doing.

Many Thanks
John

aware_support2

John,

You can make separate objects for each purpose with a single form per object. Then you can simply mark the attributes as "Value must be provided" ane the system will do the validation automatically.

If you want to keep a single object for all purposes, you can add an attribute to indicate the intended purpose and set the attribute from a process:

Enter NEW Temp WITH Temp.Purpose = 'purpose1' USING Form1

Then you can have all necessary validation rules attached to the object:

If Temp.Purpose = 'purpose1' AND Temp.Name IS UNDEFINED Then REPORT ERROR 'You Must Enter Your Name'

john

Thanks for that, I had kind of already thought of that but I realised that there will be LOTS of If statements. I suppose this is unavoidable. The reason I need the objects together is because it makes it much easier to keep all of the TempID's concurrent for each party.

I will work with your suggestion. Thanks again for your help

Regards
John