I made a KeyField element with values separated by semicolons to use as a PickList.  Made it a Mandatory field with the restriction "!".  But then I found I could not proceed through the records even though they had values in them. After some frustrating time to troubleshoot, I decided to see what happens in the sample file for Countries.  Imagine my surprise to find it also happens there.   Here are four modified screen shots showing  the error message screen when I try to go to Next Record. And a picture of the two test fields with their values are shown on the bottom.  The left element is a Key Field, the right element is a normal Text Field.

Both fields blank:


Both filled:


Key Field filled, Text Field blank:


Key Field blank, Text Field filled,


You can see that the Text field is only listed when it is blank.  But the Key field show up when blank, or when it has a value.  The value is shown in the error message. No other restriction other than the "!"Is there a note somewhere that says a Key Field cannot be restricted?

Thanks Carl.  A quick test indicates that is the solution.  I had just connected to look for a response, and was also going to add another problem.  I found that if I did a search for "=" or "/=" I would get the wrong result set.  But if I used an "a" or a "b", etc, it worked OK.

But removing the trailing semicolon also  fixed that.  I will have to make a note in my Sesame Library about the trailing semicolon.

Thanks again.