You work with validation rules in the Database painter and Report painter.
What you do in the Database painter
In the Database painter, you can:
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Create, modify, and delete named validation rules
The validation rules are stored in the extended attribute system tables. Once you define a validation rule, it can be used by any column of the appropriate datatype in the database.
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Assign validation rules to columns and remove them from columns
These rules are used by default when you place the column in a form in the Report painter.
What you do in the Form painter
In the Form painter, you can:
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Accept the validation rule assigned to a column in the Database painter
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Create an ad hoc, unnamed rule to use with one specific column
Validation rules and the extended attribute system tables
Once you have placed a column that has a validation rule from the extended attribute system tables in a form, there is no longer any link to the named rule in the extended attribute system tables.
If the definition of the validation rule later changes in the extended attribute system tables, the rule for the column in a form will not change.
