validate custom field in the screen

Question

Hi all

It will be possible validate a custom field that is showed in a screen ?

For example:

When the developer finish the implementation he click in the button implement and is showed the screen with this custom field.

This custom filed can have value 'Yes' or 'No'

I would like that if the developer fill the custom field with the value 'No' , was showed a message to him informing that this value cannot be accept for this transition. It will be possible

Thanks in Advance

Best Regards

Fabio

fabio marcelo · Answer

Hi Nic ,

You are right. I did this that you said . In the transition I put a post function that set the custom field Implemented to Yes , and it worked .

Thanks a lot

Best Regards

Fabio

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

You can do it with javascript (although if the user is determined, that's quite easy to bypass)

The "correct" way to do it would be to write workflow validator that will perform the check and return a "you can't do this because" message to the user.

However, I'd actually question what you've presented - if the user always has to put in a "yes", then why do you bother offering it to them?  The don't need to fill it in at all, because to pass the transition, they always have to say "yes".  So you might aw well leave it off and assume a "yes" from the status, or use a post-function to flip it into a "yes" when the user performs the transtion.  I'm guessing your business logic is a little more complex than this though?