It worked, thanks!  I haven't used many custom functions before, so I didn't know had to use the objName.functionName format to call it.  So I set it up like below, in the Exit event, because if I left it without the if statement and then typed something, exited the field, and came back to delete it...

OK, thanks for that explanation, very helpful.  So, I have one more question, sorry.  I'm not that experienced with javascript, so I don't know how to call the function.  Do I have to create a new script object and put your script in there?

One other thing just occurred to me -- perhaps you have the script in a Date field.  I used a text field, so that I could run my own script without interference from any automated functions in the Date Field object type.  I don't know if that might make any difference with the type conversion issue.

I decided to put my validation script in the mouseEnter event of the Submit button.  If the form validates, the button turns green.  It's not a real-time validation like it was with the script in the layout:ready event, but it's a close second.  In any case, it does improve the performance and usabi...

OK, that's great, thanks. Now, sorry I don't know how to read that regexp, can you explain how it works, so I know for the future?  And in what event do I put it?  I appreciate the help.

I thought perhaps the javascript syntax might be a little different in Acrobat vs. LiveCycle.  If it's not, that's good to know.  But after working in LCD, I never do anything in Acrobat any more.That type conversion was a smart move; I don't think I could have figured that out.  I'm not a very expe...

Hi Al,Just to make sure we're on the same page -- this is for LiveCycle Designer, and the script needs to be in the Validate event of the script.  I trimmed the script down to accept only MMDDYYY entry.  This way there's no confusion; there were too many other masks.  The script works great for me -...

Thanks for the suggestion, but doing it manually is not really an option since there are about 60-70 fields to check.  It's a very complicated form (government, of course).  I don't want to have to chase down every single modification to fields and keep track of it in my validation script.  I'm not ...

That's what I was afraid of.  I would like the button to turn green as soon as the required fields are completed -- is there any other way to achieve that effect?

Thanks for the responses.  Could this situation be caused by having an "execValidate" line in the layout:ready event of some of the objects?  For example, I have a very long form with a Submit button that turns green when all the information is provided.  So once the whole form validates, the user c...