So I'm doing post-conversion from my large v6 solution with the
excellent help of MetaDataMagic and I have just got to my first real
nasty set of differences.

So apparently to make v8 a little less of a dog, they aren't doing
field validation checks on field exit anymore, they are doing them on
record commit (with the exception of checking for Unique and Existing,
which it seems FM was forced to go back and make "on field exit").

Many many times I have an "edit" layout with an "edit" script for the
users to go and edit records. In this new version, field validation
doesn't trigger sometimes until way after the user has completed
editing and the editing script has finished!

Are there any feasible ways to solve this?

Also I'm not looking forward to dealing with all of my Set Field script
steps. I have 1375 occurrences of those to check. Thanks FM.

What's worse, having a tool that doesn't fit the job or not having any
tools at all? With field validation, I'm not sure of the answer.

I've been trying EventScript out for a few weeks and it seems to work
fine (and it's donation-ware).

http://www.softs4humans.com/FMPro_Plugins.html

G


Paul Bruneau wrote:

Good question. I might just move to remove field validation and do it
via script loop and dialog warnings.

Grip wrote: