Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Can custom property validation make one or another required?

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~Holly Zekhipisonnivu

Jul 12, 2011, 4:50 PM

64 Posts

Can custom property validation make one or another required?

Category: Other Domino Designer Tooling
Platform: Windows
Release: 8.5.1
Role: Developer
Tags: Custom Control Properties
Replies: 3

- I have a custom control with piles of properties, most of which are optional. Two of them however, are such that one of them is required but not both. In the validation I have:

(first.toString!="" || second.toString()!="")

which does not work. This fails if either one of the parameters is missing, where it need to succeed if either one of the parameters is present.

- I've found little to nothing so far on more advanced validation on custom properties. Is this even possible?

Thanks for your time...

~Alexis Opresaman

Jul 13, 2011, 3:58 PM

129 Posts

Re: Can custom property validation make one or another required?

Typo?

The first returns a reference to the toString function, while the other returns the result of toString()

~Julia Opjipymanetsi

Jul 13, 2011, 4:51 PM

23 Posts

Re: Can custom property validation make one or another required?

Maybe...

return ((first.toString() == "" && second.toString() =="")?false:true)

~Alexis Opresaman

Jul 14, 2011, 4:39 PM

129 Posts

Re: Can custom property validation make one or another required?

I did a little testing, and it looks like the properties might not be aware of each other when the validation runs.