Navigating the hierarchy

[Former Community Member]

Does anybody know of a reliable way to start at the top of a form's hierarchy and navigate through the entire hierarchy, firing off the validation events of each object for which a validation event is appropriate?   The hierarchy includes several layers of subforms and several dynamic subforms.

[Former Community Member]

The execValidate() function will fire the Validate event of an object and all of its children .....so if your root node is form1 you woudl use form1.execValidate()

Paul

[Former Community Member]

That's interesting. Now I'm wondering why the people who developed the code I'm looking at just didn't do it with one line instead of walking through the hierarchy field-by-field.

[Former Community Member]

Probably didn't know any better.

paul

[Former Community Member]

The sad thing is, they still know more than I do.