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Pop Up Error Message if Incorrect Cost Budget Combination Selected Using FieldVerifying Handler


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Hi, I have a requirement where, when a user selects a certain project task, cost code and account group under Cost Budget Tab in Projects Form, when creating a transaction in Bills and Adjustments form the same combination of those three fields must be entered by the user, if not an error message must pop up saying the combination is incorrect. How can I approach this customization, is using the FieldVerifying event handler going to cover this requirement?

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Project Task, Cost Code and Account Group in Projects Form
The combination must be the same under Bills and Adjustment Form

 

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Best answer by jknauf 6 May 2022, 15:40

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If you need a proper pop-up dialog you’d need to call the ask() method on a view, but from I understand it’s frowned upon to do so from an event handler, they’re meant to be used within actions (however they do still work within event handlers). Although this is usually a little overkill if it’s just for throwing an error. You can learn more about smart panels/pop up dialogs here: https://asiablog.acumatica.com/2015/11/using-smart-panel.html
 

If you’re okay with a web browser pop up, you can simply use: throw new PXException("Your error message here”);
But those can be a little jarring in my opinion.

Alternatively if you just want to throw an error within acumatica, there are a handful of ways to go about that! So this wouldn’t give you a pop up, but it would put a little red mark on the fields you desire and it won’t let users save. You can hover over the red mark to see the error message.
A couple ways to do this would be to call the RaiseExceptionHandling method on a cache with a PXSetPropertyException, or the setError method from a PXUIFieldAttribute. These are the methods I use most often.

If you use that last method, you’ll probably want to reapply the error on row selected event handler as well, as otherwise I believe the error would disappear on the next user input.

Anyway, here’s an example of a similar need as yours, I’d try something like this first and see how that works for you first: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61820502/what-is-the-best-way-to-raise-validation-exception-in-grid-cell-grid-row-form

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You can also use the PopupNoteManager.RegisterText method to just register a pop up during an event handler. The Ask method is a bit problematic because it will recall the method with the response, that will cause issues in event handlers. 

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