Bind them to the form entries. The validated entries are to bind the form elements to their previous values when the validation fails, they won't work for insert or update because they only have values when the validation fails to begin with. 
Thanks for your reply.
Just to make it clear (to me): I added the persist data behaviour and bind all form fields to the persist form entrie, so that the user has not to re-enter data when validation fails and the page reloads.
Is this correct?
TIA
tony


