Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Possible Required Field validation bug

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~Judy Asatoopuloni

Jul 27, 2011, 11:20 PM

6 Posts

Possible Required Field validation bug

Category: Forum design
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.2
Role: Developer
Tags: validation,required field
Replies: 1

I'm having required field validation problem. Say I have one button and two labels. Whenever the button is click it toggles a viewScope variable

viewScope.put("onoff", !viewScope.get("onoff"));

Label1 has render (hide/show) formula as

viewScope.get("onoff");

Label2 has the exact opposite

!viewScope.get("onoff");

So when you toggle the button Label1 and Label2 shows up one or the other. Simple and that works fine.

Now add a text field and make it a required field. Now the on/off button stops working. But, if I put at least one character in the text field then the on/off button starts working. Is it suppose be like this? Or, what I'm doing wrong?

~Rex Umreman

Jul 28, 2011, 8:20 AM

272 Posts

Re: Possible Required Field validation bug

Hi,

this is not a bug, it's a feature ;-)

Not rendered means that an element is not visible anymore. But the UIComponent can still be required internally (inside the JSF-Tree)

To work as desired, you have to compute the "required"-property:

<xp:inputText id="inputText1">
<xp:this.rendered><![CDATA[#{javascript:viewScope.get("onoff");}]]></xp:this.rendered>
<xp:this.required><![CDATA[#{javascript:!viewScope.get("onoff"); }]]></xp:this.required>
</xp:inputText>

Sven