Design Studio 9.0 Listbox - value not in list error

Deborah:

First, I would introduce the Form_OnBeforeTransaction method to the form.
Then isolate your listbox value, assigning it to a declared variable to make it easy to read, this is an example that should work, but you will need to change the name of your variable.

var enteredValue = lawForm.getDataValue("RQH-PO-USER-FLD-1",0)
alert(enteredValue);
return false;

Returning "false" stops the form being submittted, you can verify what was entered.

If this works, you can define a method that examines the entered character and takes appropriate action, again, just an example:

if (!validSelect(lawForm.getDataValue("RQH-PO-USER-FLD-1",0)) {
  return false;
}
else {
  return true;
}

function validSelect(listValue) {
  // a null value has been entered
 if(!listValue {
  alert("Please enter a valid value");
  return false;
 }

 switch(listValue) {
  case "A":
    return true;
  case "B";
    alert ("B is not permitted");
    return false
  default:
     alert("You have entered an invalid value and cannot submit this form"); 
     // clear the entered value
     lawForm.setFormValue("form_control_name_here","",0);
     // reset the browsers status bar
     self.status = "";
    return false
}

}

I use switch and case whenever I can, cleaner and faster than nested if statments.  I also advise you to confirm that If you are running IE7, make certain you have status messages writing to the browser.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Robert