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I have created a form in LC with four required fields. When the fields are filled out and the signature field signed, I get error messages stating that the validation test failed on three of the four required fields. The one that doesn't fail is the date field.
The only validation on the required fields I can find in the XML code is a check for "not-null" and that is to return an error message reminding the user to fill in the fields.
Since the eSeminar yesterday, I have been reading about digitial signatures and this doesn't seems to be a check for seed values. I haven't set any seed values anyway.
Has anyone had this problem?
This didn't start happening until I added a signature field to the form. Do you think it's a problem with the required fields or the digital signature.

I am a rookie at scripting and am using JavaScript when I need to script.

2009-01-02 13:48:20

plevy

Registered: Jul 8 2008

Posts: 80

It's hard to give you specific advice from the description; fields can have rules that they have to obey (numeric, not empty, legal date, etc.) and there are generally checkboxes in Designer to specify these. When you start to sign a document there is a pre-sign event and the fields may have code that responds to these events and issues error messages or other checks that run based on this event. You may not have seen these before because without the signature field there was no pre-sign event being issued. The same kinds of checks are generally done with Submit related events also.

Also, be careful with signatures and date fields the self-initialize to the current date. Such fields may invalidate signatures or cause other problems with signatures because they modify the form data on open.

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