I am looking for the best way to validate fields before a save, i could care less about what they are before i save, like in partial refreshes messing up because a field is empty.
I discovered that simple action groups are conditional, that gave me the thought to use them to validate the form before a save, not only could i validate whether it was empty but i should be able to validate if a value existed in a table, as in type ahead entries. I could also validate the false statement and use the simple action confirm dialog to tell them what was wrong and that it did not save.
Is there a better way to do this? I know you could do it client side, but then how do you stop your serverside script from running?