Handling of Incorrect User Entries 

Use

When users choose the Save function in Edit forms, the system carries out a validation of user input. If the entries are incomplete or invalid the system outlines the fields in question and displays error messages on the screen.

Features

Indication of Fields with Errors

The system outlines input fields with invalid or incomplete data in color. You can only save the contents of the form when all errors have been corrected.

The way in which fields with errors are indicated corresponds to the portal default. You can select a format in the properties of input fields (in the Error Format property).

Error Texts

Error texts help users to correct input with errors. The following functions are available:

●      Error text for forms

You can create a text to be displayed if there is an error in one of the input controls on the Edit form (Error Text property). You do this in the properties of the Edit form. The text is displayed above the form.

●      Error text for controls

You can create a text to be displayed immediately below the field with an invalid entry. You do this in the Error Text property in the properties of the input control in question.

●      Validation error text for controls

At validation the system generates error texts that are also to be displayed immediately below the field with an invalid entry. You use the input control property Validation Error Text to define whether the manually created error text, the validation error text, or both texts are to be displayed.

Validation Error Text Property

Value	Description
Suppress	Do not display an error text
Prefer	Display only the manually created error text
Attach	Display both error texts

If you want to display only the error text generated by the system, leave the Error Text field blank and leave the Validation Error Text property set to the default value, Attach.

Activities

If you want both the input field and the field label to be indicated if errors occur, you have to link the field label with the input field. If you create input fields with labels using Drag&Drop from the data model, this link is preset.

To check that the field label and input field are linked, use the primary mouse button to click the field label. The linked input field is highlighted.

To link a field label with an input field, proceed as follows:

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       1.      Use the secondary mouse button to click the field label.

       2.      Choose Link to Control.

       3.      Click the input field.

The linked input field is highlighted.