I have two date textboxes and two buttons. CompleteButton's ValidationGroup = "Complete" and SaveButton'ValidationGroup = "Save".
<asp:TextBox id=TextBox1 Columns="10" MaxLength="10" runat="server" />
<asp:TextBox id=TextBox2 Columns="10" MaxLength="10" runat="server" />
<asp:Button ID="CompleteButton" runat="server" Text="Complete" CssClass="button" ValidationGroup="Complete" onclick="CompleteButton_Click" />
<asp:Button ID="SaveButton" runat="server" Text="Save" onclick="SaveButton_Click" CssClass="button" ValidationGroup="Save" />
For the 2nd TextBox, I've added 4 compareValidators, 2 for each ValidationGroup. For each ValidationGroup, one to check dataty ...
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