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~Zach Quetponesononi

Jun 12, 2014, 4:23 PM

90 Posts

Weird validation error message order

Category: Server Side JavaScript
Platform: All
Release: 9.0.1
Role: Developer
Tags: Validation
Replies: 1

Good gravy!?! Why does this show in such a weird order? There are 4 questions on the page requiring validation. The 4 questions are fields in order of 1, 2, 3, 4.

But the validation at the bottom of the page reports on them in an apparently random order!

This is the source code as it appears on the xpage

<xp:inputTextarea style="width:75%" value="#{Report.Agenda}" id="Agenda">
                               <xp:this.validators>
                       <xp:validateRequired
                           message="Question 1 can't be blank">
                       </xp:validateRequired>
                   </xp:this.validators>
       </xp:inputTextarea>

<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>

        <xp:inputTextarea style="width:75%" value="#{Report.Themes}" id="Themes" required="true">
       <xp:this.validators>
           <xp:validateRequired message="Question 2 can't be blank."></xp:validateRequired>
       </xp:this.validators></xp:inputTextarea>

<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>

        <xp:inputTextarea style="width:75%" value="#{Report.Why}" id="Why" required="true">
       <xp:this.validators>
           <xp:validateRequired message="Question 3 can't be blank."></xp:validateRequired>
       </xp:this.validators></xp:inputTextarea>

<xp:br></xp:br>
<xp:br></xp:br>

        <xp:inputTextarea style="width:75%" value="#{Report.Goals}" id="Goals" required="true">
       <xp:this.validators>
           <xp:validateRequired message="Question 4 can't be blank."></xp:validateRequired>
       </xp:this.validators></xp:inputTextarea>

~Isaac Fezboosiakoi

Jun 12, 2014, 6:08 PM

586 Posts

validation..

I forget the reason for this... there is one I THINK... I mean not like a GOOD reason... something to do with the in memory tree... I guess it's fair to say that it's not clear to the computer any desired order...

I've not done much with validation a couple guys have had some good blogs on it... I THINK Tommy Valand and Mark Leusink.. not sure... you might want to Google... Or start here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9126614/how-to-set-the-order-of-validation-messages

Good Luck