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Yep.  What are the data types you are using ?   Try a text box in one column, and a drop-down list box in another column.  Enter something in the text box, and do not touch the drop-down.  I'm guessing it will not satisfy the conditions you have established...

Thanks for the response!  That makes perfect sense to me.  In fact, I've already tried that and it didn't work.  At first, I was thinking it wasn't recognizing "is blank", but as I mentioned above, I'm now thinking there is something that prevents the condition from being checked when (it thinks) ...

I also found that if I selected the same value from the drop-down twice in a row, the dialog box did not appear.  Must be something that overrides the condition if it thinks nothing has changed...

I actually experimented with the same conditions on a RULE I created to show a dialog box expression for the drop-down column.  I conditioned the rule based on "is blank" or "is not blank" (to always show me the value), and found that until I selected a non-blank entry from the drop-down, the dialog box did not ...

Hello... I have a 3-column repeating table that I would like to validate to ensure that if they enter one of the columns in a given row, all columns are entered.  These are optional entries, so I cannot simply make them "required".  The first column is a date-picker, the second is a drop-down list, and the third is a text ...