Force user to enter positive/negative values on certain GL Accounts

Hi
If I want to force the user to be only able to enter positive values for certain GL Accounts and only negative values for other accounts, how can I do this?
Thanks
Johan

Hello Johan,
I think you have posted your question to the wrong forum.
This forum is specifically regarding the OnDemand applications like https://bi.ondemand.com
Cheers
Steve

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Good: It doesn't permit the focus to be changed when TAB is pressed unless it is valid.
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JavaFX really provides a 'GUI toolkit'. I think you are looking for a fairly advanced binding framework - a framework that builds on the concept of field level validation. You can approximate such a thing by creating a 'validation group' class. This class would be able to have nodes added to it and have an 'isValid()' function which only returns true if all the node items are valid.

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