Microsoft KB Archive/201660

= OL2000: ErrMsg: a Field on This Form Requires a Value =

Article ID: 201660

Article Last Modified on 9/29/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q201660





SYMPTOMS
When you send, save, or post a custom form in Outlook, you may receive the message:

A field on this form requires a value.

When you click OK, the control that requires input may or may not have the focus, or insertion point.



CAUSE
This can be caused by:


 * There is a custom field on the form that requires a value that was not provided.
 * A control that was bound to a field requiring input may have been deleted, but the field was not deleted and is still associated with the form.



RESOLUTION
Use either of these two methods to resolve the problem.

Complete the Field that Requires Input
After you click OK, focus moves to the control that requires input; there may be more than one control on your form requiring input. Until all the controls that require input are completed, you will continue to get the error.

Delete the Field from the Form
NOTE: These steps assume you deleted the control from the form but did not delete the field.
 * 1) Open the form. On the Tools menu, click Design Outlook Form.
 * 2) Click the All Fields tab. Click to select the field that is no longer used, and then click Delete.
 * 3) Click Yes to confirm that you wish to delete the field.

There may be more than one field that requires input on your form. To find the field that is creating the error, you will need to test by typing a test value next to the field on the All Fields page, and then test the form. If you have many fields to test you may want to use the following method:
 * 1) Enter values into half of the empty fields on the All Fields page and test the form.
 * 2) If the test is successful, delete half the values from the first test group, and try the form again.
 * 3) Repeat step 2 until you narrow down the possibilities to one field.

It may be a good design practice to put an asterisk in a label control outside the text box to indicate that it is a required field.



MORE INFORMATION
The error message doesn't indicate which field requires a value. If the same form page is displayed, the insertion point will move to the proper field, but if the field is on a different page, you may need to work through each field to find it.

