Tutorial 3 Adding and Defining Validations

You can use scripts to create validation rules for controls. These scripts validate the data specified by the users at runtime.

This tutorial shows you how to create validation scripts for individual controls on the Capture Claim form. These validations ensure that valid data is specified by the user at runtime.

You must be in the Solution Design mode to create scripts, or to see the Validations tabs in the property sheets.

  • To change mode from Business Analysis to Solution Design, click the “triangle and rule” toolbar button, and click Solution Design.
    Change to Solution Design Mode.


  1. Adding Validation for Phone Field
    This validation script checks the phone number specified by the user to make sure it is in a format that can be properly handled by our business process application.
  2. Adding Syntax Validation for Email Field
    This validation ensures that a valid value is specified for the Email field.
  3. Adding a Second Validation for Email Field
    This validation ensures that a value is specified for either the Email or Phone field. The user is not required to provide values for both in this application.
  4. Adding Validation for Date of Birth Field
    This validation ensures that a valid value is specified for the Date of Birth field.
  5. Examining Auto-Generated Validation for Age Field
    In this task you will examine an auto-generated validation script and edit its error message.
  6. Editing Validation for Claim Amount Field
    In this task you will examine another auto-generated validation script, change the setting for when input data are validated, and edit the error message.
  7. Adding Validation for Time of Accident Field
    This validation ensures that a valid value is specified for the Time of Accident field.
  8. Adding Validation for Witness Phone Field
    This validation ensures that the value specified for the Witness Phone field is in a valid format.