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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Hello Everybody,  Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/4317/hello-everybody-does-anyone-know-how-to-make-a-text-paragraph-field</link><description>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&amp;#39;t use the &amp;quot;required&amp;quot; option since</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,  Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/115591?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 02:39:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e5e53a3b-404b-407f-b467-575482c223e4</guid><dc:creator>Mike Schmitt</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/320x240/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/13/pastedimage1688524702371v1.png" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,  Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/98790?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 10:32:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:eaf0490a-703f-4e81-a18c-1f53ff162f0d</guid><dc:creator>Richard Michaelis</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;can you insert your code?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/320x240/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/13/pastedimage1659350005893v1.png" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,  Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/98764?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:53:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:4bd45c0e-9901-43be-aedb-eb257ccf091d</guid><dc:creator>thomas1803</dc:creator><description>[deleted]&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/15475?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:27:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2df0ba19-4a1b-4418-8cc5-297fc1e59787</guid><dc:creator>best</dc:creator><description>load(&lt;br /&gt;  local!comment,&lt;br /&gt;  a!formLayout(&lt;br /&gt;    firstColumnContents: {&lt;br /&gt;      a!paragraphField(&lt;br /&gt;        value: local!comment,&lt;br /&gt;        saveInto: local!comment,&lt;br /&gt;        required : true,&lt;br /&gt;        validationGroup: &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;      )&lt;br /&gt;    },&lt;br /&gt;    buttons: a!buttonLayout(&lt;br /&gt;      primaryButtons: a!buttonWidgetSubmit(label:&amp;quot;Validate&amp;quot;, validationGroup: &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot;),&lt;br /&gt;      secondaryButtons: a!buttonWidgetSubmit(label:&amp;quot;Cancel&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;    )&lt;br /&gt;  )&lt;br /&gt;)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/15457?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:32:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6478d10c-fc0a-4012-b9b7-dec8d454d21c</guid><dc:creator>jegadeeswaran</dc:creator><description>Please try this:&lt;br /&gt; validations: if(len(local!comment) = 0,a!validationMessage(message: &amp;quot;len(local!comment) = 0&amp;quot;, validateAfter: &amp;quot;SUBMIT&amp;quot;),&amp;quot;&amp;quot;)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/15456?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:40:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f6edeb92-ad00-4ef5-b6e7-1d3e41d1c1af</guid><dc:creator>mohanp</dc:creator><description>Refer link below, hope it will address your problem. &lt;a href="https://forum.appian.com/suite/wiki/75/SAIL_Recipes#Approve/Reject_Buttons_with_Multiple_Validation_Rules"&gt;forum.appian.com/.../SAIL_Recipes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/15455?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 03:45:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:85a0ab68-c56c-4ef4-a60c-75a1559d3c22</guid><dc:creator>venkats533</dc:creator><description>try using validationGroup - on the specific button.  define validation on the text box or paragraph filed.  read forum recipes for sample code.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/15454?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 10:14:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2ff36f1d-b8d5-49cd-bf8b-e347c0492e7f</guid><dc:creator>utkarshs</dc:creator><description>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&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/15453?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 10:09:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f0b140df-5c42-4411-b5be-f9ab42e43674</guid><dc:creator>utkarshs</dc:creator><description>Well you can try writing your condition in required field for example if value for your button is &amp;quot;test&amp;quot; and you are using BtnAction as your variable to store it then you can write the condition in required that if (ri!BtnAction=&amp;quot;test&amp;quot;, {Value if true}, {})&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hello Everybody,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know how to make a text/paragraph field</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/15452?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:18:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:d40b8a07-eb5a-4e27-9ea6-6d5fef8e66f2</guid><dc:creator>shamec</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;m not sure if this represents your actual use case but in this case you can use the &amp;quot;required&amp;quot; property on your comment and then set the &amp;quot;skipValidation&amp;quot; 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&amp;#39;t work...&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>