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MuhammadGhazali
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6 years ago

Required Fields for updating Existing Records

Hi,  Using Import file feature in QB, I'm trying to update one field in a table and providing the unique identifier for that table. However, QB errors and asks for other fields in that table tha...
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MarkShnier__You
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6 years ago
An option is to unrequire the fields, but require them on the form. So the Requireness is only for hand edits v

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MuhammadGhazali
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6 years ago
​Hi Mark,
Thanks for your guidance, yes those fields were not required originally but later requirements were changed. For this update task, I provided info for all the required fields and it worked OK. However, it seems redundant that when you have a way to identify each record, but still need to provide info for fields that are not even being updated.

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    MarkShnier__You
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    6 years ago
    Well, it works how it works. I imagine there are other use cases where once a field is made to be required then for data integrity reasons you would want the field to be required for any kind of update. So it just depends on the use case.

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