wrong type of information displayed in form

[Terry On Windigo]

I'm getting the below on one of my forms and I don't know why. What I want
is the little popup box that alerts the user to put in data in a specified
field. I have other forms behaving normally, and then this rogue form.
Does anybody know the answer to this? Here is what I am getting and don't
want:

Form Validation Error
Please correct the information you provided by following these steps, then
submit the information again:

a.. Please select one of the "Preferred_Mail_Location" options.
b.. Please enter at least 2 characters in the "License_Number" field.
c.. Please enter at least 2 characters in the "State_of_Licensure" field.
d.. Please enter at least 1 characters in the "Authorization_Name" field.
e.. Please enter at least 1 characters in the
"Email_of_Authorization_Name" field.
f.. Please enter at least 1 characters in the "Signature_of_Authorization"
field.
g.. Please enter at least 1 characters in the "Date_of_Authorization"
field.

Return to the form.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Are you saying the "data validation" error is showing? That's probably
because the person entering the data is not entering all (or the correct)
information, and you have set the data validation on some, or all of your
form fields. If you right click each field in design view, there should be
an option to set Validation for each field.

However we can't tell anything from this without seeing your web page with
this form. Please provide a link to the page.

From your question I'm not sure - do you want data validation ON or OFF?
You talk about a popup box that alerts the user and asks for particular
information; that's essentially what the data validation does - asks for
numeric data only in a "phone" field or dd/mm/yyyy format for a 'date' type
field etc, but this should only work if you turn the validation options on.

The Frontpage data validation is basic, but it works pretty well. There are
other scripts around that are probably more flexible for example on
www.dynamicdrive.com or www.hotscripts.com