How to make a field mandatory

Question

I need to set a field so that the user cannot progress in the tab order until it is populated. I think that is more than just setting it to "required field" (which only seems to place a red box around the field) but I can't see any setting or property that will do it.

gkaiseril · Answer

The "required" property is used by the "submitForm ".

Now it is possible to lock someone into the cycle of having to complete the field before being allowed to go to the next field or do anything else. Think about this for a minute. The user could not save the form if locked into the cycle.

It is possible to test the field's required property using JavaScript and then taking the appropriate action for the on blur action or just using the "Validation" tab to run some validation script. You also might want to add a script that validates if all required forms are completed before saving or printing the form.

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