Making a flexfield segment 'required' for a particular function

Question

Hi
How do we make a flexfield segment 'required' for a particular function.
I don't want to make this field required from core applications(System administrator), but only for a function.
kindly give Suggestions..

Answer 1

I understand that this is a issue, as a workaround you can do this for your page alone.
1. Get the handle to the flex bean segment in your page
2. make it required.
This is what the devguide says
1. Find the flex bean by attribute name and call processFlex() on the flex bean.
2. Call getIndexedChild(int) to extract the TextBeans from the flex bean and do whatever you want.
code shld be something like this
OAPageLayoutBean page = oapagecontext.getPageLayoutBean();
OAMessageTextInputBean segmentBonus=(OAMessageTextInputBean)page.findChildRecursive("OfferDetailsFlex0");
if (segmentBonus!=null) {           
segmentBonus.setRequired(true);
Thanks
Tapash