Prevent submit if required field is empty

HI.
I have input text fields that has "Required" property set to true and indeed I can see "*" sign near the field.
I also have a button on he page .
How do I prevent the page from being submitted if required field is empty?

Hi,
1. point the disabled property of the command button to a managed bean (view scope) that has its default set to "true"
2. set autoSubmit="true" to the input text component
3. set a value change listener to point to a method in the same managed bean
4. If the new value of the textfield is not null or empty, set the managed bean property that the disabled property points to to "false"
5. Configure the command button Partial Trigger property to point to the ID of the input text field
Frank

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In your script when you make an object visible, you also make it mandatory. No problem there!
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hide the object, THEN
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I've read a fair number of threads on this topic. I am not trying to force the user to stay in a field or otherwise be annoyed. I would just like to alert the user when they save the PDF if there are required fields that have not been filled out. The alert message would simply be a polite reminder to complete the form before sending.
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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.
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I keep receiving "At lest one required field was empty on export. Please fill in the required (highlighted) fields before continuing." message.
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<ID_Detail>100</ID_Detail>
<Cost>200</Cost>
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<FName>D</FName>
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<ID_Detail>100</ID_Detail>
<Cost>200</Cost>
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<Cost/>
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I was recently using Adobe Designer 7 and when I would make the field type User Enter - Required, it would not allow the user to go on to the next field.
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A rather exotic question. :-) EDIT: using JDEV 11.1.1.4
Suppose you have a form that consists of inputTexts and some of them are required (required = true). These come from a data control that is based on a BPM Human Task.
What my customer wants is two buttons: one submit button, and one save button.
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*) If I make the "Save" button "immediate", then the client side validation is skipped. But the Update Model Values phase is also not executed, so values that the user entered are not stored in BPM. Too bad.
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Am I barking up the wrong tree and can this be done a lot easier, or what am I missing?
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Hello Frank,
Thanks for your quick reply.
The application is actually a bounded task flow that is based on a human task. So after selecting the human task, JDev automatically creates a task flow, and the Data Controls required to show, update, reject, approve, ... the task.
What I do next is drag & drop the payload of the task from the Data Control Palette to my page, and I create buttons for all the necessary operations (such as approve, reject, ...), also from the Data Control Palette. If you then deploy the application, it is automatically associated with the human task, and the page is shown in the Worklist application after selecting an instance of the task.
The operation that I am interested in is called "update", which basically, through the ADF Data Control and ADF model, sends the updated fields back to the BPM engine and saves the updated fields there (in memory, or in the DB, I don't know, but this doesn't matter). This operation is provided by default when creating a task flow based on a human task, and works perfectly if there are no required fields, or if all required fields are submitted. So "temporarily" saving the fields is not the issue.
What I want to achieve now, is have some fields that are required when the user clicks "approve" (one of the basic operations on a task), but optional with the user clicks "update" (another basic operation of a task). Approve would make the process itself continue and the task would no longer be assigned to the user. Update on the other hand would just update the payload in the BPM engine, but the task remains assigned to the user and the process doesn't continue. So if the user logs in at some point later in time, this task (with updated fields) will still be available in his inbox.
The first thing I noticed is that client side validation cannot be disabled anymore in ADF 11g, so the "update" button has to be set to immediate to avoid the validation of the required fields at client side. But if the "update" button is immedate, then the update model values phase in the page life cycle is skipped, so the data that the user entered is never submitted to BPM. Whereas if I set the "update" button to immedate="false", this works just fine. If all required fields are entered, that is. :-)
So - in my opinion - there would be 2 possible approaches if there are fields that should be required for the "approve" operation and optional for the "update" operation.
- Disable the client side validation and don't set the update button to immediate
- Make the "update" button immediate, but force the lifecycle to still perform Update Model Values, if the "update" button is used
The second approach would be the cleanest, but I'm unable to figure out how to do this... I'm a little bit lost in all the classes that are available. :-)
I hope this clarifies my problem...
Regards,
Chris
Edited by: ChrisSchryvers on Feb 1, 2011 4:21 AM

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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.
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When I open the document in Adobe Reader now, the signature options are all greyed out as you can see.
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