Preferences...) on the
main menu). In the Advanced section, select Enable required
fields, and click OK.
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Required fields are an advanced option to assist in data collection or survey completion. They provide a visual indication of data entry remaining to be done. You can tag particular fields as being "required", so that when others come to fill in a form, they can see whether they've added all required information.
To enable the use of required fields,
first open the Preferences dialog
(Tools>Preferences...) on the
main menu). In the Advanced section, select Enable required
fields, and click OK.
Now when you edit a field in class editing mode, there should
be an extra menu item Set required.
Setting this option for a field will add a red icon next to the field name:
which changes color to
(green)
when a value is entered.
The icon for all records of that class
will also show an incomplete indicator
if a required field is not filled in. This changes back to
once all values have been entered. To
assist in locating the incomplete entries within a catalog, incomplete
records cause indicators to
appear all the way up the record tree to the catalog root
which is only restored to
when all required fields in the catalog have been filled in.
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Required fields are a useful feature if you want to provide a catalog for other people to fill in - and make sure that they fill in all necessary information. |