Hello Everybody, Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field

Jin Pheh

Certified Associate Developer

over 9 years ago

Hello Everybody,

Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field only required when the user tries to submit via a specific button? Currently validations on form elements do not trigger when they are blank and I can't use the "required" option since I need to check the validation only when clicking a specific button. I have created a dummy snippet that demonstrates the problem:

load(
local!comment,
a!formLayout(
firstColumnContents: {
a!paragraphField(
value: local!comment,
saveInto: local!comment,
validations: if (len(local!comment) = 0, "You must enter a phrase.", ""),
validationGroup: "comment"
)
},
buttons: a!buttonLayout(
primaryButtons: a!buttonWidgetSubmit(label:"Validate", validationGroup: "comment"),
secondaryButtons: a!buttonWidgetSubmit(label:"Cancel")
)
)
)

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venkats533 over 9 years ago +1

try using validationGroup - on the specific button. define validation on the text box or paragraph filed. read forum recipes for sample code.

0 shamec over 9 years ago

I'm not sure if this represents your actual use case but in this case you can use the "required" property on your comment and then set the "skipValidation" flag to true for you cancel button. If your usecase is something else other than cancel where you would need to validate on both buttons then this won't work...
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0 utkarshs over 9 years ago

Well you can try writing your condition in required field for example if value for your button is "test" and you are using BtnAction as your variable to store it then you can write the condition in required that if (ri!BtnAction="test", {Value if true}, {})
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0 utkarshs over 9 years ago

I would like to add that in value if true you simply write true(), and in value if false simply write false() I hope this helps
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0 venkats533 over 9 years ago

try using validationGroup - on the specific button. define validation on the text box or paragraph filed. read forum recipes for sample code.
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0 mohanp over 9 years ago

Refer link below, hope it will address your problem. forum.appian.com/.../SAIL_Recipes
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0 jegadeeswaran over 9 years ago

Please try this:
validations: if(len(local!comment) = 0,a!validationMessage(message: "len(local!comment) = 0", validateAfter: "SUBMIT"),"")
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0 best
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over 9 years ago

load(
local!comment,
a!formLayout(
firstColumnContents: {
a!paragraphField(
value: local!comment,
saveInto: local!comment,
required : true,
validationGroup: "comment"
)
},
buttons: a!buttonLayout(
primaryButtons: a!buttonWidgetSubmit(label:"Validate", validationGroup: "comment"),
secondaryButtons: a!buttonWidgetSubmit(label:"Cancel")
)
)
)
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0 thomas1803 over 2 years ago

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0 Richard Michaelis
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over 2 years ago in reply to thomas1803

can you insert your code?
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0 Mike Schmitt over 1 year ago in reply to Richard Michaelis
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