Validation checks that the product design satisfies or fits the intended usage (high-level checking), i.e., the software meets the user requirement. This is done through dynamic testing and other forms of review.
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List Validation does not show Error when Conditions are not met
I am using List Validation feature for a list which is working fine i.e. doesn't save the item when condition not met. However, it is not showing the error message which helps to rectify the inputs in ...
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2answers
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Validate if the entered text is number
Is it possible to write column validation to check if the entered text is number? I have a column named Year of type Single line of text. I would like to be able to stop the user if he or she enters ...
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5answers
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How to validate Web Part property value?
A custom web part has custom web part properties. I would like to validate with custom server side code when user changes property value (or when properties are bing saved). Is that possible? Can I ...
4
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1answer
992 views
SharePoint Form - Advanced Validation Error Handling
Our company wants to create a more user friendly and branded way of handling user errors when validating InfoPath Forms. We would like to create a message box that essentially would be more ...
3
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1answer
388 views
How can I make sure that only one of two fields is filled out (ListItem)?
I have custom SharePoint list with several fields. Two of the fields are TargetPage and ExternalURL. At the moment the user is allowed to fill out both of them if he want to, and I want to deny that. ...
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3answers
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New Item form field validation in SharePoint
I have created a custom list with below two columns.
1. Choice with Yes/No values
2. Multiple lines of text
In New Item form of this list, on click of save button I want to make field 2 mandatory ...
3
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1answer
369 views
How do I validate a selected “choice” field in a survey?
We've got SP2010 foundation, and the other limitation is that we do not have access to SPD or any of the programmatic ways of accomplishing this. I'm looking for information about how to set this up ...
3
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1answer
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formula to limit date entries to specific month
In my "time off" custom list I have start date and end date. I want to make the user splits up the entries if the time off spans months. In other words if the entry starts Oct 25 and ends Nov 5 I want ...
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1answer
809 views
Custom form validation
I am new to Infopath and Sharepoint, and have been reading everything I could find online about this, but nothing to solve my problem. We need a form with custom validation (logic in javascript) to ...
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2answers
1k views
How to make SharePoint fields mandatory conditioned on other fields?
For example, in a workflow task, I might have a master field called "Approve" which, if set to "No", makes it unnecessary to complete the rest of the form (and thus makes them non-mandatory). Is there ...
2
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1answer
962 views
Validate a date column against a lookupfields additional column
In a list you can create a lookup column which queries data from an other list, the fun part is that you can add "additional columns" which results in some sort of ghost column which is added to the ...
2
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1answer
213 views
Sharepoint multi-column validation
I've got a custom list that contains multi collumns. The validation is made by a custom contenttype. Now I want a combination of two columns to be unique. Until know I did not found a way to solve ...
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dropdown box(sharepoint form field) validation sharepoint 2010
I have a sharepoint form field(look up field), a dropdown box in a list...below is the screen shot
when i type into it it finds the name..
but when i type a text which is not present in the drop ...
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3answers
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Email validation in SharePoint 2010
We have a column of type "E-Mail" and we'd like to attach validation to it so it conforms to the normal regular expression email validations at a specific domain. Is this possible without writing a ...
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2answers
613 views
Validation on page load treats SharePoint field controls as empty
On a particular custom list item form I am making for my WSS 3.0 web app, I am required to validate the page when it is loaded up, so that any mistakes the user makes from a previous save are noted ...
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2answers
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SP2010, how to add email address validation to a column?
I have the following code:
=ISNUMBER(FIND("@";[emailAddressField]))
It's not working, can someone recommend a better formula.
Thank you!
The exact problem is... depending on the default site ...
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2answers
571 views
form validation
I am new in javascript. I want to validating a form with five columns.
FormDescription
My Form Contain 5 input fields and one submit buttom
I want following output
1.Initially submit button ...
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2answers
557 views
How to validate if entered text for a column is in Upper Case
I need to validate if the text entered in a text column is written in UPPER CASE.
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1answer
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2010 Column Validation Formula
This formula works fine when adding a new list item:
=[Class Date]>=TODAY()+3
Basically ensuring the user selects a date greater than two days away from current date.
I don't want the formula to be ...
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1answer
214 views
Turn off SharePoint Error Messages
Is there a way to turn off error messages, that are returned from InfoPath forms either having invalid data, or permissions.
Here is a picture of them.
I would perfer for the form to just not ...
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vote
1answer
2k views
How to put DateTimeControl ErrorMessage as '*' during required field validation
There is a DateTimeControl on my WebPage which i is a ReqiredField. I have set the properties of the control as follows
<SharePoint:DateTimeControl runat="server" ID="txtDOB" DateOnly="True" ...
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vote
1answer
346 views
add more accepted protocols to url/link validation
I'm trying to add a link that starts with the protocoll "notes://" to a URL list and in a standard rich text field but only get "the url is not valid"
How can i make sharepoint 2010 understand that ...
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2answers
188 views
SharePoint List Check whether Value is Checked
I am using Windows SharePoint Server 2007. In a custom list, if I have two columns. One has a list of Categories, and the second has a list of Products. So in my Categories Column its a Choice with ...
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1answer
233 views
validation control is always fires
I'm try to using validation InputFormRegularExpressionValidator. Code behind
<SharePoint:InputFormTextBox runat="server" ...
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1answer
574 views
Column Validation in SharePoint 2010
I have three columns, "Status", "Request Date" and "Completion Date". I want to do two things:
If "Status" is Closed or Withdrawn, I need to add validation to have the user enter a completion date ...
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1answer
3k views
How can use Regular expression for Column Validation in Sharepoint 2010?
Is there a way that i can use the newly introduced "column validation" in Sharepoint 2010 Lists to validate that the value conforms to a regular expression?
For example: if i create a column for ...
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vote
1answer
484 views
List item validation using .NET Client Object Model
On a SharePoint Foundation 2010 installation, I have a list defined and have set some simple validation rules on a couple of the fields:
Text field (required)
Number field (required, min: 50, max: ...
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vote
0answers
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Updating a value of any item in a list based on a selection of bool for one item - jQuery
So I hope this makes sense. I have a column within a list that I want to use as an active flag. There are 5 possible categories and for each category there can only be one active value. So I need some ...
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1answer
461 views
Validation of dates in different fields in sharepoint
My question is on validation of dates in SharePoint…
If i have two date fields – start date(& time) and end date(&time). How do i validate these, so that a person cannot pick a time in ...
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0answers
208 views
Validate list item with javascript API
I want to develop a custom datasheet view to edit a list.
I add item through the javascript API. The problem is that the service doesn't control fields value. For example :
- I add an item with a ...
1
vote
1answer
168 views
How to validate that atleast one question is answered on a survey list where none of the questions are required?
I have a survey list that has 2 questions, the first being a rating with a subset of 4 criteria to rate on and the second is just a questions and comments textbox.
None of these are required, ...
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2answers
1k views
infopath > How to make sure there is an attachment
Creating a resume upload form where user must upload attachment. On submit button I want to disable submit button if attachments is not present? I added Attachments is not present and this seems to be ...
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1answer
633 views
Problem validating StringBuilder fields in SharePoint 2010 Custom Workflow Validators
One of our custom SharePoint Designer workflow activities, which have always worked fine in SharePoint 2007, fails to validate.
This appears to happen when a Workflow Activity that contains a ...
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vote
4answers
776 views
ASP.Net Validators part of Custom control in WebPart
Custom control has 6 buttons in which 5 of them have CausesValidation = false, the one remaining button ( lets calls it as "SUBMIT") which cause validation.
Edit: Validators and Submit button are ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint 2010 Condition List validation?
I have 2 date fields. I want the END_DATE field to be greater than START_DATE.
For this I use the following validation
=AOS_validfrom<=AOS_validto
All this works fine.
Now I want to ...
0
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1answer
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TEXT formula does not work in SharePoint 2010
I try to find difference between two date and time value in SharePoint 2010. I have two common column (date and time) and I use this formula =TEXT(Column2-Column1,"h:mm:ss") but it does not work? I ...
0
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2answers
868 views
Custom Validation on Infopath Fields? C#
How can I apply custom validation to Infopath 2010 fields which stretches beyond the basic Rules and Templates?
I am looking to validate a custom field which needs to be validated much like a Credit ...
0
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1answer
92 views
PowerShell version of SPWebapplication.FormDigestSettings.Enabled?
Does some one know the PowerShell equivalent version of the following SharePoint object model code:
SPWebapplication.FormDigestSettings.Enabled = false;
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1answer
378 views
InputFormCustomValidator doesn't work
I have custom application page, and I need some custom client side validation. After spending hours on trying to make asp.net CustomValidator to work, I googled a lil bit and found few posts, that ...
0
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1answer
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Calendar Column Validation for booking after a specific time
I'm trying to write a column validation for a SharePoint calendar to ensure all bookings are after 8.30am in the morning and before 5pm at night.
I've tried the following:
=AND(TIME(8,3,0) < ...
0
votes
1answer
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Column validation on managed metadata term
I would like to validate when i create a new list item that the metadata item selected is a specific item and not a top level category
for example in the above you should not be able to select ...
0
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1answer
140 views
Server side validation if Javascript disabled on user's browser
I have developed a small form with 3 input type = text and one input type = submit button. The end user fills the form and submit it, but no data inserted into backend List. (probably empty form is ...
0
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3answers
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Check if a list has the expected structure?
I must use a list in a webpart and display some data/graph/etc based on the list content (notice: this is simplified, so please do not give it much importance).
To be used the list must have a ...
0
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1answer
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How to validate field across multiple lists
So I'm created a number of different lists and libraries with workflows attached.
When someone creates a new job, the document is uploaded to the Job directory (library).
If it classified as a ...
0
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1answer
535 views
Find out if validation errors exist in InfoPath form
Does anyone perhaps know of a way to find out at any point when a form is filled in if there are any validation errors on the page? I am having a lot of trouble with users that are not very ...
0
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1answer
644 views
List validation on multiple fields?
I would like to validate a list item so that if one field is true, then another must be completed. If the first one is false, then it can be ignored.
=(([Start Deferment]="Specific Date") AND [Start ...
0
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2answers
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Does web part property validation only work for visual web parts?
Suppose I define a web part property like this:
private string _myString = "default value";
[WebBrowsable(true),
WebDisplayName("My string"),
WebDescription("A simple bit of text to ...
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1answer
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Using an event receiver to validate a page
I need to evaluate certain properties of a page whenever it's being saved/published as part of a custom validation I need to implement.
I notice properties has both Cancel and ErrorMessage properties ...
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1answer
229 views
Infopath: Validate Status field when there is change in Date
I have a non-required field called "EntryDate". But if status changed to "Processing" then end user has to populate the "EntryDate". I can't seem to get this working. Please suggest what are my ...
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1answer
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Issue when checking URL containing %20
I have custom control which displays different details depending on which site the user is currently at. My problem is that as soon as the URL contains non-alphabetic characters, the controls fails to ...
