3.6.2 Types of Fields

This topic describes the fields types such as mandatory fields, optional fields and conditional fields.

You will encounter three types of fields in most screens:

• Mandatory fields
• Optional fields
• Conditional fields

Mandatory Fields

Of the many fields in a screen, the inputs to some may be mandatory. This means that you cannot save the record without giving a valid input in such fields.

Optional Fields

The inputs to some of the fields in a screen may be optional. You may or may not give an input to such fields. Further, an optional field may have a default value; a value that the system puts in the field if you do not enter anything. Unless you change this default value, it will be taken as the input to the field. However, please note that all optional fields need not have default values. It is possible that some fields can be left blank.

Conditional Fields

There are some fields, which take input based on data in some other field(s). For example, in the Loans and deposits module, you have to specify the Cluster ID only if you are processing a deposit. It is not unusual that a conditional field also has a default.

Option lists

Inputs to certain fields can be picked up from the option list provided with the field. The option list will contain values that are valid inputs to the field.

After you have made all your inputs, save the record by clicking save icon.

Click Exit button to exit this screen.