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Hi,

Maximo 7.6.1.3 here.

I am customizing an application for our students that live in our residences. As they fill the form to create a workorder, they have to ackowledge that an employee may enter their room to do the maintenance required even if they are not present. I want to add a mandatory checkbox that the user needs to check or the workorder will not be generated when submitted. Right now, my checkbox is created, I made it required and I created the attribute in the database, making it required too. I then test by filling a ticket and when I click on Submit, the workorder is generated. What am I missing here? Is checkbox the right option for me or should I try with a combobox?

Thanks in advance.

Danny

Danny when you create the attribute in the database it is classified as a YORN field which means it will always have a value (0 = No, 1= Yes), so you really cannot make a checkbox "required" as it is never an empty field.  What I would do, in in the workflow when they submit the form, check that the value of this checkbox field is = 1, if is not = 1, then display a message which says they need to make sure this field is checked on before they can submit.

This is only one possible solution, there are others as well.

Thank you Stephen, you solution is more than interesting! I will look into it!

Have a nice day!

Danny