Name is not valid?

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I am trying to make a form field required by using a validation. When I try
to click okay I get the following alert - "Name is not valid. To allow the
name to be used in a scripting language, it must start with a letter or
underscor, and subsequent characters must be letters, digits or underscores".
When I click okay here, the validation does not take effect. Any ideas out
there?
 
You must assign a name to the form field before you can add field validation.

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It already has a name "Please choose course(s)"

Thomas A. Rowe said:
You must assign a name to the form field before you can add field validation.

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Can not have any spaces in the field name or special characters, such as ()', or a number as the
first character, etc.

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Thomas means assign a name the form

as in <form name="FormName" action="cgi-bin/form.cgi" method="post">
 
Please choose courses is an instruction to the user of the site, not the
name of the form. (see my other post).

such as:
<input type="text" name="course">
 
No I didn't, I meant the name of the field that OP was attempting add a form field validation.

You can not assign a name to the form, when you are using FP Form Field Validation, as FP will
rename the form.

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