I would like to change the order in which the fields in a form get checked.
The field Email should be checked before the field City. They are both obligatory.
I would also like that when the email address is invalid only one Popup is shown (by default I get two- one saying the email is invalid and one saying that the field cannot be null)
Is it possible to change the order of the checks and do the custom checks before the system ones?
Marco
The only supported method of changing the order in which the fields get checked, is changing the order on the form. I'm assuming that CRM just loops through it's collection of controls to perform the field validations. You could attempt to dive into the CRM javascript and figure out a method to hijack it.
A supported way of handling it would be to make the fields not required (either via javascript on the OnLoad, or updating the entity definition itself), and then on the OnSave, writing your own field validation. It's a lot of extra work, and you lose the little red asterisk showing the field is required, but you'd be able to evaluate them in the order you'd like (or display a single message with everything that's missing (why that isn't done by default in CRM I'll never know)), and be able to fix your email invalid / not null message.
CRM does not loop through its collection of controls as specified in the answer above.
The validation of the fields(business required) on a CRM form happen in the order in which they were added to the form, irrespective of where they are placed in the form. So, as of now, the only way to change the order in which they are validated is to add them in the same order as you want them validated.
So far.. I believe the only option to work around this is stated in this link.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8f402463-23aa-4bc1-862b-4f4093a0cce8/required-fields-order-of-validation?forum=crmdevelopment
Basically you would need to use javascript. Have only one field as mandatory. On change of this field set the next field (in the correct order) to mandatory and so on.. hectic but only way.
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Can I know whether a field's(or a component's) value is 'null' or not in Oracle ADF.?
I have unchecked 'Mandatory' in EO.xml(It's required for us as per the application to un-check that option) and in JSF page (when I run the application) I'm clicking on 'Commit' without entering any text in all the fields, I thought like it should not allow me to Commit as I didn't entered any text. But it's getting Committed without saying any sort of error.
So, my question here is, can I stop it(Committing Without entering text in the fields), if anybody knows please help me..
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Can I get out of this problem by using JavaScript.?
If the field is not set to be mandatory why should ADF stop you from getting empty data into that field?
You could add your own validator to the field to check if the value is empty instead - but that would basically be the same as turning mandatory on.
Using parsleyjs I would like to trigger a validation on only one field so I was hoping that this would work:
$('.form-input-field').parsley().validate();
But it does not work. Calling .parsley().validate() on the form it self does work thought and validates the whole form:
$('.form').parsley().validate();
Is there a way to manually validate only a single element?
Why I want to do this is because an error message needs to be visible when the parsley is initialized or as soon as possible before the user actually interacts with the element (but as mentioned only for one field in the form).
For this purpose, parsley has data-parsley-group attribute.
Check this fiddle. Also, check official documentation
So you field validation will look like
form.parsley().validate({group: 'group-1'});
I have the following problem:
I have a form where a user can opt to toggle a switch (Yes/No).
If they select Yes, I hide a couple of fields on my template (because they will now automatically be calculated).
The catch is that now, a set of different fields are required to not be empty for the successful submission.
The first fields need not be optional after the switch is clicked (since they are merely hidden but still submitted), but the second set of fields must be non-empty.
Is there a simple way to get this dynamic validation behaviour using Symfony's sfValidator classes, or should I simply hack together a solution using jQuery?
This sounds like a perfect case for the Callback constraint that already exists in Symfony. To quote the linked doc:
The purpose of the Callback constraint is to create completely custom validation rules and to assign any validation errors to specific fields on your object. If you're using validation with forms, this means that you can make these custom errors display next to a specific field, instead of simply at the top of your form.
This solves the backend, you still need to watch out for the required attributes of your fields so HTML5 validation can work properly.
I know with a form, I can get the $valid property to check whether the entire form is valid. Is there a way to get the validity of a form but ignore undirtied fields whose only rule is "required"?
I have a form that has a save button and a next button. This form is part of a series of forms. When the user clicks on save, I want full validation, but if the user clicks on "next", I want it to validate (and alert the user) for all fields except those who have no validation rules on them other than the "required" flag. This is so that I can save a partially completed form without having to alert the user to the missing fields until later (because they will want to save progress on their forms without having to complete them altogether).
Perhaps there's a way to get the fields with a jQuery selector/filter of some kind?
Not sure I completely understand the question and your use case, but it somewhat sounds like you may need to use custom form validation.
http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/forms#custom-validation
(you may need to scroll down a bit when first loading the link)
Basically you may need to add your own custom directive to control the validity of the inputs you have in mind.
Alternatively, and maybe not quite the "Angular" way, you can avoid using the data binding between the fields and model, effectively opting out of Angular validation. Obviously losing the data binding may be a bigger issue for you but you could get at those values with code outside of your Angular stack.
I have an application with an input field that takes a dollar value. I need to change the way this dollar value displays so that the number is formatted with a $ and commas, like $5,550.00 if the user just enters 5550.
I found a way to do this, but doing so causes all hell to break loose in the code that uses the value from this field--it does a bunch of stuff, including database updates that break if given $5,550.00 instead of 5550.
There is a TON of underlying code and I am not empowered to go fix it all. I need to figure out a way to display this value to the user as $5,550.00 but keep the underlying value as 5550.
Any suggestions?
Use 2 text inputs. A "façade" one that the user sees, and a "real" one which is actually submitted to the server with the form. When the user enters text into the visible input, you can use JavaScript to set whatever corresponding value you want into the "real" (hidden) input. That effectively decouples the displayed value from the submitted one. You can even use a plugin such as jQuery Masked Input to do the front-end number formatting for you.
Make sure to only apply this when JS is enabled in the browser, otherwise your form will be broken with JS disabled.
If you are talking about an HTML form, I would submit the form using javascript.
You could revert the value back to unformatted before submitting the form.