Forms with Required Fields

I have created a form that needs some required fields (using GoLive CS1). I have found NateMail which looks wonderful, but it requires the server to use PHP. On this forum, I found Nate's great instructions to test the server for PHP capability, and they failed the test. Do I have other options? Any suggestions? I'm fairly new to forms, so the easier the better. Thanks so much!
Judy
(Many thanks to Nate who has been a great help to me on many fronts during my web apprenticeship!)

Thanks, Nate --- I will check with them to see if they have alternatives, although I think I'm going to suggest my client switch hosts. I'm not that familiar with all the technical jargon, but they have indicated before that they use Cold Fusion when we've talked about other form issues. (I don't know if that offers any leads on alternatives.) We do have 3 basic, functioning forms operating via their server, but we want to have some required fields where the viewer can't proceed without providing some info. Anyway --- thanks so much for your help --- it's much appreciated!

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Worked for me (Yahoooo! Have been asking for this for over a decade)
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I'm using tabs (paneltabbed) to show and hide 5 diferent forms. When I'm seeing forms withour required fileds I can switch between forms without any problem but when I'm seeing forms that have required fields I get the message that the field is required when I try to change the form.
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Edited by: Onur Aktaş on 28.Eyl.2009 15:50

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I am using tab canvas with 5 tabs with diff blocks.
receive
issue
adjust
return
view
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thanks

Not sure if I understand you correctly. You say some fields are required in all tabs, but also that you 'don't want to enter anything here'. Do you mean that the fields are required, but only if you're entering data on that specific tab? I.e. you don't have to enter all of the tabs.
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Problems with required field

Hello everybody!
I'm just makgin my first steps with Visual Composer.
I created an iView that uses the BAPI "BAPI_DEBTOR_GETDETAIL". I designed an input form that takes the customer number as a required field. The output form then displays some customer details.
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OK prachi,
I entered
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I have been attempting to get help with a required field and one of the forum helpers said he got it to work for me but I cannot and I have not been able to get any more responses from him to help me further.
I am attempting to have a radio box when the YES is selected to require another field to be completed. The script I was provided with is:
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Combing PDF forms with identical field names while retaining unique values.

I have several PDF files of the same form that has been filled out by multiple users. I need to create a combined file of all the responses for reporting purposes. However, the forms (obviously) all have the same field names, and when I combine them the values of the first form autofill the values of the matched fields on the other forms. I need a way to combine the forms while retaining the unique field values. I thought I could write a js to rename the fields, but that isn't possible.
*EDIT: The fields need to retain editability because some contain long, scrolling text. Flattening or read-only isn't an option, not that either fixes the above problem.
Suggestions?

UPDATE:
I solved this problem, at least for my own needs. Following try67's advice in a related post, I had to delete the existing fields and create new ones with new names. Given my desired outcome, this meant collecting all of the field properties of the fields (with some variation by field type), storing it, erasing the existing fields, and using that stored information to create new, identical fields (again with some variation by field type). Since I didn't want to retain actions or javascript, this was a perfect solution. I also no longer needed the buttons to function (since I wasn't retaining their javascript), so I made them read-only. I'm listing my working code below, in case anyone else could benefit from some or all of it.
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The following script is used in a Combine Files action via the Action Wizard. The PDF optimizer is also used to strip out or flatten additional items.
//This script is used to rename all the fields in a document while also removing any javascript or actions associated with those fields. Makes buttons read only without renaming.
//Function to create a random alphanumeric ID.
function makeid(n) {
    var text = "";
    var possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
    for( var i=1; i <=n; i++ )
        text += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));
    return text;
//List variables for collecting arrays of field properties.
var fieldNum = this.numFields;
var fieldNameArray = new Array();
var fieldTypeArray = new Array();
var pageNumArray = new Array();
var fieldRectArray = new Array();
var fieldValueArray = new Array();
var borderStyleArray = new Array();
var borderColorArray = new Array();
var borderThicknessArray = new Array();
var fillColorArray = new Array();
var textColorArray = new Array();
var textFontArray = new Array();
var textSizeArray = new Array();
var textAlignmentArray = new Array();
var textMultilineArray = new Array();
var checkmarkStyleArray = new Array();
var radiowidgetNumArray = new Array();
var radiowidgetRectArray = new Array();
var radiowidgetPageNumArray = new Array();
//Get the properties of all the current fields, including widgets.
for (var i = 0; i < fieldNum; i++) {
    var currentField = this.getNthFieldName(i);
    fieldNameArray[i] = makeid(5);
    fieldTypeArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).type;
    borderStyleArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).borderStyle;
    borderColorArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).strokeColor;
    borderThicknessArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).lineWidth;
    fillColorArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).fillColor;
    textColorArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).textColor;
    textFontArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).textFont;
    textSizeArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).textSize
    if (this.getField(currentField).type == "text") {
        fieldRectArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).rect;
        pageNumArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).page;
        fieldValueArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).value;
        textAlignmentArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).alignment;
        textMultilineArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).multiline;
    if (this.getField(currentField).type == "checkbox") {
        fieldRectArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).rect;
        pageNumArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).page;
        fieldValueArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).value;
        checkmarkStyleArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).style;
    if (this.getField(currentField).type == "radiobutton") {
        checkmarkStyleArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).style;
        fieldValueArray[i] = this.getField(currentField).value;
        var n = 0;
        while (this.getField(currentField + "." + n) != null) {
            radiowidgetNumArray[n] = this.getField(currentField + "." + n).name;
            n++;
        for (x = 0; x < radiowidgetNumArray.length; x++) {
            radiowidgetRectArray[x] = this.getField(radiowidgetNumArray[x]).rect;
            radiowidgetPageNumArray[x] = this.getField(radiowidgetNumArray[x]).page;
//Delete all the current fields, except for buttons, which become read-only.
for (var i = (fieldNum - 1); i > -1; i--) {
    var currentField = this.getNthFieldName(i);
    if (this.getField(currentField).type != "button") {
        this.removeField(currentField);
    } else {
        this.getField(currentField).readonly = true;
//Using the stored arrays of field properties, generate new, identical fields.
for (var i = 0; i < fieldNum; i++) {
    if (fieldTypeArray[i] == "text") {
        var newField = this.addField(fieldNameArray[i], fieldTypeArray[i], pageNumArray[i], fieldRectArray[i]);
        newField.value = fieldValueArray[i];
        newField.borderStyle = borderStyleArray[i];
        newField.strokeColor = borderColorArray[i];
        newField.lineWidth = borderThicknessArray[i];
        newField.fillColor = fillColorArray[i];
        newField.textColor = textColorArray[i];
        newField.textFont = textFontArray[i];
        newField.textSize = textSizeArray[i];
        newField.alignment = textAlignmentArray[i];
        newField.multiline = textMultilineArray[i];
        newField.doNotSpellCheck = true;
    if (fieldTypeArray[i] == "checkbox") {
        var newField = this.addField(fieldNameArray[i], fieldTypeArray[i], pageNumArray[i], fieldRectArray[i]);
        newField.value = fieldValueArray[i];
        newField.borderStyle = borderStyleArray[i];
        newField.strokeColor = borderColorArray[i];
        newField.lineWidth = borderThicknessArray[i];
        newField.fillColor = fillColorArray[i];
        newField.textColor = textColorArray[i];
        newField.textFont = textFontArray[i];
        newField.textSize = textSizeArray[i];
        newField.style = checkmarkStyleArray[i];
        newField.readonly = true;
    if (fieldTypeArray[i] == "radiobutton") {
        for (y = 0; y < radiowidgetNumArray.length; y++) {
            var newField = this.addField(fieldNameArray[i], fieldTypeArray[i], radiowidgetPageNumArray[y], radiowidgetRectArray[y]);
            newField.value = fieldValueArray[i];
            newField.borderStyle = borderStyleArray[i];
            newField.strokeColor = borderColorArray[i];
            newField.lineWidth = borderThicknessArray[i];
            newField.fillColor = fillColorArray[i];
            newField.textColor = textColorArray[i];
            newField.textFont = textFontArray[i];
            newField.textSize = textSizeArray[i];
            newField.style = checkmarkStyleArray[i];
            newField.readonly = true;
//End script.

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