Alerts should be thrown dynamically

Hi Experts,
Is it possible to use the standard Alert Management of SAP Business One to display an alert on a particular form? The scenario below will clarify the requirement:
Step 1) An end user adds an item to a marketing document (For eg. A/R Invoice).
Step 2) When he/she selects the same item again for the same document, system alerts the user that the item has already been selected. This is just required for display purpose to alert the user that the particular item has already been entered. However, he/she should be able to continue with the document addition with the repeated item.
Since their is an option to attach a query to trigger an Alert, can some one please tell me what the query should be and whether alert management can display an alert in such a scenario?
Also, I had read in some thread that using Formatted Search data validation can be done on forms. I would appreciate if someone can tell me the entire procedure to do that.
Regards,
Magesh.

Magesh,
When you are talking about validating data from a Form and especially the Matrix area, it is going to be difficult. The reason is SAP does not store the matrix data in a accessable manner where you could compare the ItemCode entered against one previously entered.
I don't think it is possible to do this through a Formatted Search. Probably there is a way to do it through UI coding.
If you want to due it at using SQL code, then it would have to be by the usage of some temp table and a bunch of SQL statements.
Suda

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