I've not done a lot with validation yet...  BUT I'm not a fan of the XPages built in Tab Control.  I prefer to do it manually in Dojo.  the reason is that for the XPages control - only the ACTIVE tab contents are sent to the browser.  So clicking on a tab causes a round trip to the server and a partial refresh.

 

doing it in Dojo manually, all the content is set to the browser so you can really validate it all at once with Client Side JavaScript if you like.

Here's a snippet if you need it.  you would still need to turn dojo on and include these modules...

<xp:panel dojoType="dijit.layout.TabContainer"
    style="width: 350px; height: 300px">
    <xp:panel dojoType="dijit.layout.ContentPane" title="dojo Tab 1">
        Content for Tab 1
    </xp:panel>
    <xp:panel dojoType="dijit.layout.ContentPane" title="dojo Tab 2">
        Content for Tab 2
    </xp:panel>
    <xp:panel dojoType="dijit.layout.ContentPane" title="dojo Tab 3">
        Content for Tab 3
    </xp:panel>
</xp:panel>

 

hope that helps...

Thanks for the tips guys. We do not have the Extension Library loaded yet, but plan to install it soon.

 

I came across an article by Andre Guirard that almost does what I'm looking for: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/bpmpblog.nsf/dx/better-ssjs-validation-for-xpages?opendocument&comments

The only thing with this is that validations are put on every field. It would be more manageable if there was someway to include these validations in a SSJS library so I'm going to be checking into that...if anyone has any ideas/suggestions let me know!