Optional User Field Inspection Point

[former_member245085]

Hi Expert,

In the inspection point, I need to have fields as below

• Field 1 (Text length 10) - Mandatory
• Field 2 (Text length 18) - Optional

When I configure this, in my system both fields are Mandatory( I cannot skip Field 2)

Is this standard? How to set pne fields optional?

Thanks

Ashok

[former_member42743 · Accepted solution]

I don't think they can be made optional.

What you can do however is use the function module in config to put in defaults for your optional field. I don't know how you are intending to use the optional field but you could for instance default in N/A into the optional field. Users can change the value when they need to.

Another option is to use a "-" or "_" as the default value. Then users can simply type in after the character so your entries would be either xxxxxxxxxx- or xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx.

I believe this is done because of the way the system accesses the data in the database. I think the database would have problems if some of the fields could be blank and their wouldn't be consistency in which fields could be blank. I.e. if you used 3 fields instead of 2 and you want to leave field 2 blank sometimes, and field 1 blank other times it would have problems with that.

Craig

[former_member245085 · Accepted solution]

Thanks fire.fighter