Making a text field required when a radio button is clicked

Hello all, I am very new to designing PDF forms, and I want to implement this requirement but have no idea how to go about doing it. I am designing an order form, and in a few different sections of the form are text fields that I want to be required, but only if a certain radio button on the form is clicked. So for example, I have a radio button group on the page consisting of two buttons, and then immediately to the right is a text field. If the user selects button 1, the text field is not required, but if they select button two, the text field is required. How do I implement this? I am using Livecycle ES3. And when I say required, I am referring to the field value/property of "User Entered - Required". Also, I cannot accomplish this by hiding and unhiding the field depending on which button is clicked, as this form will also be printed and filled out by hand, so all fields must be visible at all times. This form does have a submit by e-mail button and that is how it will be used primarily.
Also, I have searched around the forums a bit, and have tried some Javascript I have found, tying it to a mouseup event on the radio button, for example "getField("Text1").required = (getField("Radio1").value == "Yes");" and "getField("Text1").required = true;" with the names changed for my fields, but no matter what I try it has no effect
Thanks!

i hope this helps u.You can always optimize tht code a bit more , it's coded roughly but it works.
<html>
<head>
<script>
var cursel='r1';
function radioClick(x)
     if(cursel!=x)
          cursel=x;
     if(cursel=='r2')
          var z=document.getElementById('mydiv');
          mydiv.innerHTML='<input type=text name=ss size=20/>';
          mydiv.style.display='inline';
     else
          var z=document.getElementById('mydiv');
          mydiv.innerHTML='';
          mydiv.style.display='inline';
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type=radio name=rtt onClick="radioClick('r1');" checked />Radio 1
<br>
<input type=radio name=rtt onClick="radioClick('r2');"/>Radio 2
<br>
<div id=mydiv></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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protected void create(AttributeList AttributeList) {
super.create(AttributeList);
SequenceImpl sequence =
new SequenceImpl("KCP_SEQ", getDBTransaction());
setFieldSeq( sequence.getSequenceNumber());
If this still does not solve it: please go to the ADF Forum since this problem is an ADF problem, not a JHeadstart problem.
Regards,
Evert-Jan de Bruin
JHeadstart Team.

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<af:panelHorizontal rendered="#{myBean.showPanel}"> (THIS ONE IS RENDERED WHEN SHOWPANEL() METHOD IS TRUE)
has 3 af:commandButtons - submit, save, add row
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<jsp:include page="/pages/includes/footer.jspx"/>
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<f:verbatim>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../script/tree.js"></script>
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_*why is it that when the command buttons are clicked, the whole page is loaded? Only the methods associated with the action (action="#{newMapRequestItem.addARow}" ) should be called.*_
_*IS THERE A WAY TO AVOID THIS WITHOUT USING PARTIAL PAGE RENDERING ?*_
_*DOES MY TAG NESTING LOOK OK?*_
Edited by: user12054715 on Mar 24, 2010 12:00 PM

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I have a requirement where i need to show a popup or alert when the submit button is clicked twice . When it is clicked for the first time one method is been called and its process starts. When the user clicks the submit button for the second time they should be shown a popup stating "Submit button already been clicked, please clicked OK to continue".
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2. Write below logic in your Process Request method
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3. Include below logic in your PFR method
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Remeber, to sumbit the request, user need to refresh the page again so that "status" variable will be refreshed.
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Hi Guys,
af:statusIndicator does not show busy icon or motion when a command button is click
I am working on an excel data upload functionality on .jspx page. I use “af:inputFile” file uploader to upload an excel file then process the data and store it as a list of objects in memory and display it in “af:table” table
I added “af:statusIndicator” to the page to show the user that the page is progressing while the data is uploading and when it is saving the data to the database.
In this case, when the “af:inputFile” is clicked to upload the excel file - the status indicator shows a progress icon (movement) which is expected and is good. However, after the data have been display in the table when I click on a command button that saves the data to the database – I expected the status indicator to start its busy motion but that is not happening. Whereas, the command button grayed out and is disable when I clicked the button until the operation is completed.
Is there any way to start the statusIndicator when a command button is clicked?
I tried the following options
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