How do validationGroups work?

danp963 over 8 years ago

I have a grid rule and a separate rule for a "toolbar" of buttons. There are some validations that I want to execute as soon as a row in the grid is selected and an additional validation that I would like to occur only if a particular button in the toolbar is clicked.

How do I set this up? I started looking into it trying a validationGroup on the button and the gridField, expecting it to cause ALL validation on the grid to only execute when the button with that validationGroup was clicked (which would mean my grid validation that I WANTED all the time would be missing, but I was just finding a place to start...) Instead, I found that the validation was triggering regardless, but only preventing form submission for the button i put the validationGroup on.

What am I misunderstanding about how validationGroups work?

Thanks,
Dan

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0 robertp
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over 8 years ago

I believe you can set this up by using a conditional in the statement in your validations field. You can do something similar to if(local!flag, "validation",{}), and do an a!save into the local variable in your button press or row selection. The purpose of validation groups (and this is from the documentation): When present, components in the same validation group are validated when this button is clicked. More information can be found under forum.appian.com/.../SAIL_Components.html
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0 danp963 over 8 years ago

Thank you! I think part of the reason I was struggling was because of that definiteion from the documentation- that was leading me to expect that the grid validation would only occur when the button in that validation group was clicked.

Ultimately I've decided to go an alternate route. though. Thanks again!
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