Re: Text field lengths and external DataBases.

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've never done Domino development, but some VB work. Is there a Change 
event in Domino? In VB, at least, this can be used for validation - keep a 
count of characters every time the contents changes. Kludgy but might work.

HTH

Vern

At 03:46 PM 1/23/2003 -0600, you wrote:

> Rob,
>
> I think what Roger is really looking for is that the field validation be
> done as the user types in the field. Sure the iSeries can do the
> validation, but I think that is too late for what he is looking to achieve.
>
> It would be great if Lotus would add field validation to the Designer
> client.  So, if I would add a field to a Form, the properties dialog would
> have another tab for validation.  On that tab I could set-up validation
> based on the field type.  Things like max length for text fields or min and
> max numbers.  I think the enablement of the events in Notes 6 will solve a
> lot of the validation problems most people have though.
>
> -- Scott Johnson