Help Enforcing "Required" Field

Thanks in advance for your help. I am trying to enforce a required field, so the user can go no further until they enter something in that particular field. The problem is that our forms are not intended to be submitted, rather to be filled out and sent by e-mail. fax. or snail mail. Any suggestions?

This is not a good idea. Yo can lock a user into a form field that they do not know how to complete and cannot get out of the form.
You need to write JavaScript to verify that the required fields are completed before you unlock or mark the field as complete.
You also should consider highlighting the problem fields.
You can use the "Required" property and use the "value" and "defaultValue" properties of the field to see if default value for the field has been changed.

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Enforce required fields

Hi, I am working on a editable PDF form that includes several required fields. I tried several ways to enforce the users to fill them before saving it:
1. Mark them as "required" , but it doesn't do anything. My understanding is those required fields will only be checked when the form is submitted. Since the form does not have any "submit" button, it won't be checked
2. Use "Custom validatioin script" to validate the field.
3. Use a javascript on "On-blur" event.
It seems both 2 and 3 can check if the field is blank or not when the mouse leaves the require field. But when the user skip this required field, say, the user don't click the field at all, the scripts used in 2 or 3 are not triggerd. Thus the user can save the document still with blank fields.
How should I prevent it from happenening? And advice would be highly appreciated/
Thanks,
beautumn

First, the 'submit' with regard to the 'requite' field property, is a submit to a web server scripting page, not a 'submit' button.
So do you want your users to only to be able to save the form if they complete the form?
Then lock them into a loop to the uncompleted field until they complete the field. Not a very user friendly approach.
There is a 'will save' action that can also check for the completion of required fields. You will need to decide what action you want taken, but you can not stop the save action.
You could:
Erase the data.
Mark the form as incomplete.
Have an alert window pop-up.
You can not also stop one from printing an incomplete form through the 'Will Print' action.
You may need to write a document level script to check all of the required fields and take some action as needed. This could be used by a number actions like will save, will print, email form, submit to a web server.

Help with Required fields-PLEASE

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:
getField("Location").required = (getField("Group1").value == "Yes");
Location being the field that I require to be filled in if Group 1 is Yes. The previous forum helper indicated that I had to have this script in both fields in Group 1 and when I do that, nothing different happens.
What am I doing wrong?
Please, I need to fix this right away and I will be using this java script on many other forms that I have so I need to get this done soon.
Thank you in advance.

Wht you want can get somewhat complicated. One way to prevent subsequent fields from being used is to set them to read-only and/or hidden. You could then use the Validate event of the text field to validate the entry and enable the subsequent fields if it is filled-in adequately. In general, you should also reset the fields whenever you hide them, so they don't contain potentially invalid data from previously being filled-in. So you could initially have the fields set to be hidden, and only unhide them if No is selected, or if Yes is selected and the required text field is filled-in.
I realize this may not be as helpful as you had hoped for, but I can't suggest specific code without knowing more about the form.

Enforcing required field

An unfilled required field stops submit action in form.
How can I stop another js action on the submit button until the required field is filled/the form has been submitted?
Acrobat XI Pro
ReaderXI
Win 7 Ult 32

You can't, but you can combine the "Submit a form" action and subsequent JavaScript actions by using the doc.submitForm method instead of the "Submit a form" action. It's not documented (http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.537.html), but the doc.submitForm method returns true if the submit took place, and false otherwise, so your script can check the return value and proceed accordingly.
The alternative is to check each required field in the script and only proceed with the submit if they all check out. This is a bit more flexible, but you lose the red field outlines that indicate the problem fields.

Need help with required fields for my online form

Hi, I've been mucking around with my online form for a while
and I just can't see what the problem is in the code.
I am trying to make all but two of the form items to be
required upon form validation. However, it doesn't work, nothing is
required now.
I'm using these two ways of doing it (natemail.php is my form
handler).
<form action="../NateMail.php" method="post"
enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" id="Man Meets Woman
Long Form Opt-in"
onsubmit="MM_validateFormMM_validateForm("date","first_name","last_name","alias","address ","city","prov_state","postal","country","phone","email","birthdate","Sex","marital_status ","other_forums","methods_known","want_learn","coaching","invite_friends","about_myself"," terms_conditions");return
document.MM_returnValue">
...is one way and the other is:
<input name="require" type="hidden" id="require"
value="date,first_name,last_name,alias,address,city,prov_state,postal,country,phone,email ,birthdate,Sex,marital_status,other_forums,methods_known,want_learn,coaching,invite_friend s,about_myself,terms_conditions"
/>
The page is
http://www.vancouversocialboard.com/register.html
Can anyone tell me my error and tell me the proper way to do
this?
Thank you!

> (never did figure out what the 'MM_validateForm code was
supposed to be)
It's a call to a Dreamweaver javascript function that
validates your form.
The function definition should be in the head of the page.
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>
quote:
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> On first glance, the problem seems to be that both the
onsubmit event
> and the JavaScript function inside are encapsulated with
double quotes.
> Try wrapping the onsubmit attribute/event in single
quotes instead, like:
>
>
>
onsubmit='MM_validateFormMM_validateForm("date","first_name","last_name","alias"
>
,"address","city","prov_state","postal","country","phone","email","birthdate","S
>
ex","marital_status","other_forums","methods_known","want_learn","coaching","inv
> ite_friends","about_myself","terms_conditions");return
> document.MM_returnValue'
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
>
> No, it didn't work. But I solved it to be acceptable. I
removed the
> 'MM_validateForm and used the Natemail action. My
mistake there was that I
> put
> "require" rather than "required". It comes up with a
different screen when
> form
> items are missing, rather than a pop up video, but good
enough.
>
> thanks
>
> (never did figure out what the 'MM_validateForm code was
supposed to be)
>
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HELP! How do I enforce a required field

All
I do hope someone can help me with this!!!
I have a pdf where I require the person before submitting to check a check box to confirm they understand a key statement. the checkbox is called Confirm.
I have seen some javascript here http://forums.adobe.com/thread/784322 which uses on blur - but the assumption is that the user has tabbed into the field concerned... what if they skip over it?
So... I decided to put some Javascript into the submit button...
the submit button currently has 3 Actions on mouse up
first it runs the following javascript
if (Confirmed.value.length == 0)
{app.alert("The confirmation box must be checked. Please confirm.")
then it performs file>save as>pdf
then it performs submit a form and emails the pdf
My question is - Why if you have denoted a field as required does adobe allow you to save and email a form where these fields have not been completed??? surely this is a huge bug??
ok... but the logic I put in with the first javascript does not get triggered, can anyone explain why not? .... more importantly... can anyone help me with some code which achieves this desired effect -
when the form is submitted, I need to check if the checkbox has been checked and if not display the above alert AND exit out of the rest of the submit actions.
thanks
george

A: HELP! How do I enforce a required field

It is not at all a huge bug. Some thoughts:
1. Your script isn't working because it's not correct. If you want to check the state of a check box and do something based its state, the code could be something like:
// Get the value of the check box with the field name "Confirmed"
var v = getField("Confirmed").value;
// The field value with either be the string "Off" (if not selected) or the export value (if selected)
if (v !== "Off") {
    // Proceed with the submit here
    submitForm({cURL: "[email protected]", cSubmitAs: "PDF"});
} else {
    // Check box not selected. so alert the user
    app.alert("You must select the \'Confirmed\' check box before you can submit this form.", 3);
2. Even if a check box is set as required, it won't prevent the submit form action or JavaScript from submitting. This is because the field always has a value. This is different for a radio button group. If none in a radio button group that is makred as required is selected, then the submit won't be allowed to take place until one is. This is just how it works, so you have to use a script instead as shown above.
3. Can you explain why you want to save the form before it is submitted? It is automatically done when the entire PDF is submitted, so there normally wouldn't be a need to do this.
4. Use just a single JavaScript action. If you use multimple actions, the are independent from one another, so one can't prevent a subsequent one from being triggered.

When trying to make a purchase for a movie I get a security information required field then I select continue and it brings me back to original screen to purchase movie. Please help.

It's telling you to verify your billing information (credit card, address, security code), which needs to be done in iTunes via computer.

Need help making digital signature field read only if required fields are null

Using Adobe LiveCycle Designer, I have a digital signature field. I want to prevent users from being able to digitally sign the pdf if any required fields in the pdf are null or blank. I'm a newbie to scripting so any detailed help would be greatly appreciated. The required fields in the pdf include radio buttons, check boxes, text field, etc. I appreciate any help anyone can provide.
Thanks

Exactly how you check a field for being empty depends on what type of field it is. For text fields, you should get the field's value as a string and compare it to an empty string, something like:
var val = getField("Text1").valueAsString;
if (val) {
app.alert("Field is not empty");
If there is a default value that needs to be changed, you would compare to the default value:
var f = getField("Text1");
var val = f.valueAsString;
if (val !== f.defaultValue) {
app.alert("Field value is OK");
For check boxes and radio buttons, you'd compare to the string "Off", which means none in the group is selected.
For dropdowns (combo boxes) and list boxes, there is normally one value selected, so you would have to get the value and check against the default value (or something else) to see if the field is properly filled in.
You could place the script there, but I usually use a separate button that I encourage the user to click in order to check the field. The problem with using the Will Save event is you can't prevent the save from happening.
The script can loop through all of the fields (and test all required ones), or you could set up an array of field names to check.

Help with validating required fields

I have approximately 50 columns in a result set. I need to find out if the required fields (20 out of those 50 columns are required fields) have values (not empty field).
Since I'm dealing with a large result set (approximately 3000 to 5000 records), what is the most efficient thing to do to validate each field?
For example:
Column A, B,C,D.E.F, etc are required fields, I need to validate that each of these column has value otherwise I need to <CFABORT> the process and notify the user.

The data is not yet in our database,they are created in memory when the app. is run.
I have sort of Xml To Query function that generates a result set. I'm doing some validation on req. fields before they are inserted into our DB.
I try to run your code but I got an error:The value '' cannot be converted to a number
Here is my code imitating yours (For testing I'm using fewer columns):
<CFSET MandatoryFields = "Org,OrgId,LastName,FirstName,Gender,Address,City,State,Zip,Phone">
<cfquery name="q1" dbtype="query">
<cfloop list="#MandatoryFields#" index="ThisField">
select Org, '#ThisField# null' problem
from ResutSet
where #ThisField# is null
union
</cfloop>
select Campus, '' problem
from ResutSet
where 1 = 2
</cfquery>
<cfabort>

Posting Error: Field Pers.No. is a required field for G/L account

When I am trying to run the simulation posting run (PC00_M99_CIPE) then is getting an error that u201CField Pers.No. is a required field for G/L account 2275 504566872u201D
Field Pers.No. is a required field for G/L account 2275 504566872
Message no. F5808
Diagnosis
The value for field "Pers.No." in the interface to Financial Accounting is an initial value but you are required to make an entry in the field selection for G/L account "504566872" in company code "2275" linked to the field selection for posting key "50".
Procedure
It might be an error in the configuration of the G/L account field selection. The initial application, used to call up the interface must otherwise define a value for field "Pers.No.". If this is the case, contact the consultant responsible for the application used to call up the interface or get in contact with SAP directly.
Please help.

First of all did you required to post with personnel number or not....if it is not required then goto FS00 enter your GL account 504566872....find Field Staus Group under tab Create/Bank/Interest........then goto t code OBVV and select your field status group then click on field status and select Additional account assignments and check personnel number status and change as per your requirement optional or required.
If personnel number required then create symbolic a/c with account type Q and assign gl account to this symbolic a/c.
Mohan

MissingFieldException[ The following required field is missing from the lau

Hi, I'm new to this forum so please put this thread in the right place if I have made a mistake.
But here's my problem:
I'm using jre 7 with the latest version.
I downloaded and wanted to launch a Java based .jar game, which runs perfectly for the other users but my JRE gives the following error:
Application error - unable to launch the application.
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As I have browsed the internet for hours and haven't come up with a solution I'm asking for some help.

That error seems to indicate that the JNLP file is broken because it is missing the starting starting <jnlp> XML tag; I'll take a guess and just say that it is completely empty. Since it works for other users, apparently somehow when you download it on your computer you end up with a broken file. No idea why, no way for me to know why either. I don't have access to your computer. All I can say is: try in another browser and if that doesn't work, try on another computer. If it works there, well then you may have to face the fact that your computer might need a clean install.
And PS: this is a Java programming forum, not technical support for whatever game you want to play that just happens to use Java.

Check for required fields before locking subforms and submitting

Hello,
I have a 5-page form with many questions, to be completed by the original requestor and multiple approvers. What I'm trying to do is have the original requestor's Submit button on p. 3 lock the input on the first three pages, but first check if all those fields have some content. I currently have all the fields on pp. 1-3 set to "Required" in the object properties, but my script still locks them when there's is one empty one. Here's what I have:
//Lock portions of form
Page1.access = "readOnly"
Page2.access = "readOnly"
Page3.access = "readOnly"
//Save document, allow user to change name
app.execMenuItem("SaveAs");
//Submit via e-mail
Submit_REAL.event__click.submit.target = "mailto:[email protected]" +
"?subject=Subject text" +
"&body=Message";
Submit_REAL.execEvent("click");
The automatic check for required fields happens after the pages get locked. I would like the check to stop the process before it locks the pages. Is there any way to check all at once that all "Required" fields on those pages have some content before allowing the script to proceed? I know how to script it to manually check the 50 or so questions on those pages, but I would like to avoid that. Thanks for any help.

There are a few problems that I can see from the start. First, your code is going to pick up EVERY node that exists on these pages. Some of those nodes will not have a rawValue, and some will not have an actual name. As an example, you can take your code and create a text field to dump all of the names of the nodes that you get when you pull in all of the nodes this way. Here's an example:
The result:
Now, the question is, do you have a consistent naming convention for your fields that might be empty? That could be text fields, radio button lists, etc. For instance, I always prefix the names of objects in order to more easily keep track of what they are in scripts. Since I'm doing that, I can check the name of the field for tf, nf, rbl, cb, or whatever I have included to make sure that I'm checking an actual field before I check for things like rawValue.
var nodeName = oNodes.item(nNodeCount).name;
if (nodeName.indexOf("tf")>-1 || nodeName.indexOf("rbl") > -1 || /*check other field types*/) {
//insert your code to check for empty answers here
As for your line 7 issue. The syntax problem is that you've put extra parentheses in your if statement. Take out the parentheses that are just before and after the or "||".
*This is my fourth attempt to reply. Something was going on with Adobe/Jive earlier, I suppose.

Power view in SharePoint - Required fields not working!!!

Hi,
We have SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2014 and SSRS in SharePoint integrated mode.
We have a "Microsoft BI Semantic Model for Power View"-data connection in a document library and by clicking it users can create their own Power View reports.
We have in the document library defined a couple of columns as required.
When a user saves their Power View report(File->Save as) to the document library, the required fields are left blank. They are not checked!!!
WHY?
Does Power View use REST when saving to the document library?
This question should be in SQL Server/Power View/SharePoint -forumns, but MSDN forces you to select only one.
How can we enforce the checking of required columns???

It might be the result of nested script tags.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
<!--
Remote one of those opening tags and remove the closing tag in between the scripts.
Also, I'm not sure if you are aware, but your site looks completely broken in Firefox. Edges are ragged and the text runs off the page in places. This is the result of using a graphics program to create your html. Image ready slices are fine for prototyping, but not suitable for production work because they create code that is fragile and too rigid.
I also would not use the Flash header you have used just to display imges. I suggest using a more accessible method.

How to get the F4 help for a field in the selection screen

Hi all,
I am working on a report program. In the selection screen, I have the field 'Brand Node ID'(ZNODEID). The requirement is to have the F4 help for this field. This field is available in a 'Z' table ZNODETAB. There is no Value table maintained for the corresponding data element. So, without disturbing the table data element/domain, I should get the F4 help in the selection screen of the report. In the F4 help, data should be fetched from the table ZNODETAB and the field is ZNODEID. Is there any way to do this.
By searching the function modules, I could find that, we can use the FM F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUEST. But, I am not Sure. Can someone tell me the parameters to be passed to this function module to get the F4 help and the procedure to follow. S_NODEID is the select option used in the program. Please help me in this regard. Thanks in advance.
Thanks & Regards,
Paddu.

look at this code and try
select-options : S_NODEID for ZNODETAB-ZNODEID.
at selection-screen on value-request for s_nodeid-low
perform f4_nodeid using 'S_NODEID-LOW'.
at selection-screen on value-request for s_nodeid-low
perform f4_nodeid using 'S_NODEID-HIGH'.
end-of-selection.
FORM f4_nodeid USING    p_field.
declare it_node.
select znodeid from ZNODETAB into table it_node.
CALL FUNCTION 'F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUEST'
    EXPORTING
      retfield        = 'ZNODEID'
      dynpprog        = sy-repid
      dynpnr          = sy-dynnr
      dynprofield     = p_field
      value           = space
      value_org       = 'S'
      display         = 'F'
    TABLES
      value_tab       = it_node
    EXCEPTIONS
      parameter_error = 1
      no_values_found = 2
      OTHERS          = 3.
endform

How do I use 'submit' as complete pdf, and use 'drawn my signature' with required fields?

I have created a form with required fields, no problem. The form can be completed with adobe reader, and a signature added using Sign > Place signature > Draw my signature, great. But i need the required fields to be checked and then sent by email, so I have add a button and set the action to "Submit a form" and selected "PDF The Complete Document" from the options. I then add the javascript URL - mailto:????@????.com, but now the "Draw my signature" option is greyed out.
I have asked this question a number of times, and cannot get a proper answer, please can someone help or offer a work around.

George,
Thanks for your response, but I am not sure it fully answers my question. I have attached a screenshot to show what I mean - here I have created a simple form, with one required field for some data, using Acrobat XI. If I open the form (I have not reader enabled the form) in Adobe Reader XI, I am able to add a drawn signature, I could save the document then attach to an email to send as you have suggested.
But, If I now add a Submit button, set the URL to mail it to [email protected] and select "PDF the complete document" as below
When I open the document in Adobe Reader now, the signature options are all greyed out as you can see.
Hope this clarifies my predicament

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