External Validations

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External Validations

 

 

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Introduction

Open External Validations

New External Validation

 

 

 

Introduction

 

Extra validations can be carried out on IMS entities before they are added, updated, or deleted. This is particularly useful when the existing standard IMS validations are not enough to meet individual use cases.

 

We refer to these extra validations as External Validations.

 

 

Open External Validations

 

From the IMS Main Menu:

 

Click on the System option, this opens a dropdown list of further options

Click on the External validations option

 

01EVopenEV

 

This opens up a blank External Validations form.

 

02EVblankForm

 

 

Create a New External Validation

From the ExternalValidationForm Actions button bar:

 

04EVbuttonBar

 

Click on the Create new option, this opens a Create new ExternalValidation popup window

 

05EVcreateNewPopup

 

Enter the Name field with a unique name for this new External Validation instance

Enter the EntityName field with the value of the IMS object/entity

From the Action dropdown field, select the appropriate option - the SQL validation will be processed when one of these actions is applied to the associated IMS object

 

03EVactionOptions

 

oUnchanged

 

oAdded

 

oModified

 

oDeleted

 

oForcedeleted

Enter the SQL field with the required validation command

Click on the Save icon - lower left corner - when finished